How my journey began

Hi, I’m Vanessa, the founder of The Barefoot Counsellor Online. My journey to this business began with the breakdown of a ten year marriage and a total loss of self, and ended with me experiencing the power of TRTP Therapy as a client and deciding I needed to bring this powerful process to more people in the world. I’ve done plenty of work with different counsellors through the years and nothing cleared the baggage I was carrying from my childhood as quickly and effectively as TRTP Therapy did.

I trained under Judith Richards, the creator of the process, and I am now a fully qualified TRTP Therapy practitioner and certified wellness coach, committed to freeing people from trauma, the limits of social conditioning and their personal past.

I hope you’ll join me on a journey to being barefoot

FAQs

  • TRTP ™ is a simple yet comprehensive, step-by-step, structured process which resolves trauma and trauma-related issues such as anxiety, depression, overwhelm, fears and phobias. It achieves results quickly, effectively and safely in 3 sessions without re-traumatising the client.

    TRTP™ was created by Judith Richards and came into being as the result of the creator’s own harrowing journey through extreme trauma and PTSD breakdown, and her own resourceful navigation through to the other side of it.

    For those that are interested, includes components of Gestalt, Mindfulness, Ego-state Therapy, Choice Therapy, Parts Therapy, Emotion-focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dream Rehearsal Therapy and others.

  • TRTP™ initially deals with the underlying, unconscious core beliefs which keep a person stuck in patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. In dealing with this at the beginning of the process, self-sabotage is avoided during the remainder of the therapy process and if practiced regularly, for the rest of the client’s life.

    The second session is in alignment with the two requirements necessary for trauma (both large and small) to be resolved (Levine, van der Kolk, Rothschild, Ogden):
    1. the person must be moved to an empowered position in regard to the trauma
    2. the body must (somehow) know that the event / events are over.

    TRTP™ makes use of deep imagination in order to deal with trauma where it is stored – in the subconscious and in the body. Once cleared, the trauma and its resulting trigger behaviours are gone forever.

    In the third session, deep clarity and vision for the future is brought to the client and the conscious and the unconscious minds are brought into alignment. This allows the client to move on to a new and more focussed, directed future.

  • The TRTP practitioner community have followed some past clients for over 7 years with continuing positive outcomes.

    Many clients experience their life continuing to improve in many different ways, for many, many years because TRTP creates fundamental change.

    If you continue to maintain your mental health using the tools you learn during the process, the results will be lifelong. I can attest to this personally.

  • The full process of 3 sessions costs $1,390.

    This includes 3 one on one coaching sessions after your final session and my client-only monthly email to remind you of the tools you’ve learnt and how you can apply them.

  • Of course not. There are never any guarantees in life!

    A successful outcome using The Richards Trauma Process™ is dependent on:
    - The willingness of the client to fully engage with the process;
    - The environment that dominates the client’s world. A toxic environment will significantly reduce the potential for success of recovery for any client, if that client chooses to remain within that environment.
    - The skill level of the practitioner.

    And as with any therapy, secondary benefits of the client, if not successfully dealt with, will interfere with a positive outcome. As the philosopher Seneca stated 2000 years ago, ‘It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.’

    Very occasionally, a 4th session may be required, but this is very rare and is included in the cost.

  • Not knowing the exact reason why you’re not on top of your game is perfectly normal. The pre-session written questionnaire is designed to give the TRTP practitioner enough insight to know where to begin.

“Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives…”

- Bruce Lipton