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Integrated Trauma Therapy (ITT) is a body-focused psychotherapy which works with the state of a persons nervous system and it’s effect on our mood and wellbeing.
ITT is a gentle body-based approach to healing trauma. It blends talk therapy with Somatic Experiencing (SE), which is a body-focused method.
A range of complementary and evidence-based therapies are utilised and we offer a unique and integrative approach to trauma therapy, combining Somatic Experiencing (SE) with evidence-based therapies such as Art Therapy, breathwork, movement, play and much more.
The aim is to help you feel safer in your body, regulate your emotions, and gently process the effects of unresolved stress or trauma.
Our Services
Our practice is nestled in the leafy, green surrounds of beautiful Warrandyte. Can’t make it into the rooms?
No problem – online appointments are available, so you can access support from wherever you are.
For Individuals
Professional Development
Workshops
Our Practitioners
Our team of skilled practitioners brings a diverse range of modalities, including body-based approaches like breathwork, mindfulness, yoga, and somatic touch work to support trauma healing and nervous system regulation.
We also offer specialised support for children and families, including play-based somatic interventions, parenting strategies, and assistance with school-related stress and transitions.
Whether through individual 1:1 sessions (60 or 90 minutes), group experiences, or professional training, we provide a compassionate space for deep healing, emotional resilience, and embodied transformation.
The effects of any unresolved trauma can inhibit a healthy life. Trauma recovery needs to be a gentle process, requiring integration for the effects to be long lasting.
ITT’s primary approach is to work with you using an SE trauma lens. We work with major or minor shock events, as well as the stress chemistry that has built up in the body over time.
What Is Trauma
Trauma is such a big word. When we think of trauma, we think of something major that has happened to us. However, we can live with the stress chemistry of traumatic events without knowing it.
Trauma can become apparent to us when we have physical pain and tension, become unwell or have a major life challenge. Gradually the build-up of stress chemistry can cause other systems in the body to fail, resulting in severe illness and dysfunction.
Trauma can result from specific shock events, such as falls, car accidents, medical procedures, natural disasters, assaults and abuse of any kind. It can also be due to ongoing accumulative stress, where one can simply be living feeling chronically overwhelmed, whether from work, family and relationship challenges, chronic pain and fatigue, to severe developmental and attachment trauma from infancy, sexual abuse or mental health diagnosis.
These all have a physical impact on the body and affect our ability to function with sustainable vitality and presence.
Somatic Experiencing is specifically for working with the body-mind. Using integrated therapies that work with the mind, the unconscious and the mind of the body makes for lasting change and freedom from fear and stress.
Somatic Experiencing is specifically for working with the body-mind. Using integrated therapies that work with the mind, the unconscious and the mind of the body makes for lasting change and freedom from fear and stress.
ITT benefits you by:
- Treating physical pain, symptoms and stress patterns in the body
- Externalising and completing such internal processes
- Empowering transformational change, not just management
- Providing alternative approaches
- Allowing a person-centred and interactive approach
- Ease and settled presences in the body
- Access to your authentic self in your body
- Reduced shame about your body’s habits and behaviours
- Increased capacity to meet life challenges
- Alert aliveness
- A greater sense of safety, space and expansion in your body
- A quiet and calm headspace
- Less contraction and charge in the body
Why choose ITT and what does it treat?
We provide psychotherapeutic education about the Somatic Experiencing model. This allows you to learn transferrable skills and techniques so you can continue to use ITT in your daily life.
ITT will help you to reduce the charge of a traumatic experience held in your body and views integration as an important component for lasting change, enabling you to return to life with improved function.
We aim to create the right conditions for you to receive the felt sense of a reparative experience. This enables resilience and increases your capacity to meet life without fear.
Mental health challenges can affect how we feel about ourselves, relate to others, and cope with daily life. These may include:
- Depression, including low mood, hopelessness, and loss of interest in daily life
- Anxiety, such as excessive worry, fear, or panic attacks
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), often involving intense emotions, unstable relationships, or impulsive behaviour
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including flashbacks, hypervigilance, or emotional numbness
- Chronic stress, fatigue and ongoing emotional or physical tension
- Feelings of shame, self-blame, or unworthiness
- Disconnection or dissociation from oneself, others, or reality
- Difficulty managing emotions or controlling behaviour
- Struggles to adapt to change or bounce back from adversity
- Emotional distress following separation, divorce, or family changes
- Academic pressure and school-related overwhelm
- Low self-esteem and lack of confidence
- Trouble forming or maintaining friendships and social connections
- Withdrawal, isolation, or avoidance of social interaction
At ITT, we believe healing happens in connection — with ourselves and with each other. We come together to help, to heal, and to grow.
ITT therapy can result in:
Ease and settled presences in the body
Access to your authentic self in your body
Reduced shame about your body’s habits and behaviours
Increased capacity to meet life challenges
Alert aliveness
A greater sense of safety, space and expansion in your body
A quiet and calm headspace
Less contraction and charge in the body
Mission
At ITT, we believe healing happens in connection — with ourselves and with each other. We come together to help, to heal, and to grow.
Support & Connection
Support and connection are what’s often missing when we experience trauma. We aim to provide our clients and therapists with support and connection they need so they are equipped to be as present, authentic, human, and available as possible.
Integration
Integration is an important component for change and lasting impacts. Leaving sessions feeling as stable as possible is important. Our therapists offer a range of skills to support your trauma recovery and integration. It may take more time, but this process helps with the transition into your emerging self and supports lasting change.
Repair
When working with trauma, we are often looking for what didn’t get to happen — the missing pieces that allow for repair, which can be felt and experienced through your nervous system. Facilitating repair through the felt sense of the body.
Booking Options
We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding therapy or inquiries about any other services on the website.
Can include; Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Experiencing Touch, Art Therapy, Supervision