CP Courtney Armstrong Interviewed on Healing Grief & Loss Through RRT!

By Courtney Armstrong, LPC

Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy 

Certified Practitioner Courtney Armstrong, LPC, had the pleasure of meeting with Jed Mescon on WRCB's Three Plus You in Chattanooga, TN. Click here to view the video segment where they discussed ways to heal through grief and loss that are contrary to what people think!

 

 

Courtney Armstrong, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and nationally known speaker on trauma and grief. She is the author of Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One.

Guest RRT Blogger Courtney Armstrong: Transforming Traumatic Grief

RRT Certified Practitioner Courtney Armstrong had the privilege of being invited to share a short video on six steps to heal from grief to peace from her book "Transforming Traumatic Grief," with the Open to Hope project. Click on the video below to listen.

 

 

Courtney Armstrong, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and nationally known speaker on trauma and grief. She is the author of Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One.

Heal Trauma and Grief with Storytelling

By Courtney Armstrong, LPC
Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy

Sometimes people are so disturbed by the way someone died that they focus more on the deceased person's "dying story" than they do on the person's living stories. Yet reflecting on our living experiences with the deceased is an integral part of healing.

When I interviewed grievers for my book, they consistently stated one of the most healing experiences is hearing stories about their deceased loved one. Yet, people are often afraid to mention the name of the deceased to the bereaved. Please know that the majority of grievers enjoy reminiscing about their deceased loved one and want to remember their life, not their death. A reader recently wrote me about this stating:

"I read your book and thought it was fantastic! I have tons of memories [of my deceased mother], unfortunately all of the ones I remembered or chose to remember were painful. After reading your book, I started looking through my photos and videos and I found myself laughing and remembering how that laughter came about. My memories of my mom now have some laughter in them, and so do some of my dreams...You helped me to see a section that I have been missing, thank you."

Constructing stories is valuable for another reason. Frequently after a traumatic event, feelings, sensory information, and implicit memories of the event are typically left hanging in fragments that researchers believe are mostly processed and stored on the right side of the brain. Yet, the logical, linear-oriented left side of the brain has a drive to make sense of these fragments and put them into some kind of logical order. Building a coherent story based on your memories incorporates these fragments, bringing context and structure to them, which can help you heal.

Courtney Armstrong is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes in trauma therapy and has a practice in Chattanooga, TN. She leads workshops for mental health professions in Rapid Resolution Therapy and other creative therapeutic approaches. To contact Courtney, visit her website at http://www.courtneyarmstronglpc.com/. Visit Courtney's blog at http://traumatherapyalternatives.com/.

IRRT May 2011 Newsletter!

The Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy's May 2011 Newsletter came out today! In this month's newsletter, Master Practitioner Melinda Paige wrote a wonderful article on the "The Art of Transforming Traumatic Grief." Also featured are Certified Practioners Tara Dickherber and John Smith. Click here to read the full newsletter and to sign-up to receive next month's newsletter.

Happy reading!

Courtney Armstrong’s Rapid Resolution Therapy Presentation is a Success for the 3rd time in a row at TLPCA Annual Conference

On Friday, April 22, Courtney Armstrong presented Rapid Resolution Therapy’s approach for clearing traumatic grief to a group of 40 participants at the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association’s (TLPCA) annual conference. The presentation received rave reviews with requests for additional training. Courtney has presented for the past three years and has been invited back again next year by TLPCA!

One of TLPCA’s board members commented, “The fact that 40 people showed up for your workshop at 3 p.m. on Good Friday afternoon when it is beautiful outside tells you how much they enjoy learning about RRT.”

Several participants have written Courtney stating that they plan to come to the Atlanta Rapid Resolution Therapy training in September as a result of seeing Dr. Jon Connelly’s work. In addition to showing videos of Jon working with clients, Courtney’s presentations include information from recent neuroscience discoveries and other empirically validated methods that support Jon’s approach. For example, research now tells us that there are not five stages of grief as Jon has been saying all along. In addition, recent research supports the concept of facilitating ongoing connection with deceased loved ones as Jon encourages. In fact, other empirically validated methods such as Columbia University’s program on complicated grief now include processes for facilitating “imagined conversations and revisiting” with lost loved ones as a way to clear grief and guilt.

Along with the presentations on frozen grief, Courtney has written a book called Transforming Traumatic Grief that features much of Rapid Resolution Therapy’s approach as well as research that supports many of the concepts Jon teaches us. The book should be available in print this June 2011 through Amazon and other online booksellers.

Courtney will be doing a longer presentation on treating frozen grief in Chattanooga, TN on July 29, and she has been invited to speak at the American Psychotherapy Association’s Executive Summit in Branson, Missouri this October. For information on RRT and where Courtney is speaking next, please click here. To sign up for one of Dr. Connelly’s trainings, please visit cleartrauma.com.

Let’s keep spreading the word, and put RRT on the map as a treatment of choice!

How Rapid Trauma Resolution Cleared Sean's Guilt in One Session

At the age of 14-years old, Sean was in an automobile accident with his friend where he died. Hear Sean’s story of how he found relief from turmoil and guilt using Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution!