Claudia Wolf

Many people come to therapy after years of trying to understand or change themselves through reasoning, talking, or willpower. When insight alone has not created the shift you hoped for, it can feel discouraging. This does not mean you have failed or that your therapist has missed something. It often means your system holds deeper layers that have not yet been accessed. The Inner Landscape When we show up to therapy, we are usually ‘struggling’ with something that led us to book our first...

At the heart of our safety as humans is connection to others. From birth we cry out for connection (literally), and from infancy we do all we can to preserve our attachments. Many people come to therapy saying: “I only feel good when I please others.” “I panic if I disappoint someone.” “If people really knew me, they wouldn’t like me.” “I just feel unlovable”. From a Resource Therapy (advanced parts work) perspective, these are the voices of parts (or States) ‘Vaded’ in Rejection . These...

Following on from Part 1- The Gentle Revolution in Trauma Therapy, I wanted to continue on my series about Relational-Integrative EMDR (RI-EMDR) When you hear the term “therapy model,” it might conjure something formal, abstract, or overly academic. But RI-EMDR- the Relational Integrative EMDR approach developed by Michele Bowes and Amy English is grounded in something very human. It is the kind of work that grows from long conversations in the kitchen, from shared supervision, and from a...