Resource Therapy
Integrating and aligning inner resources and personality parts
What is Resource Therapy?
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​Resourse Therapy is a targeted, short-term, parts-based practice to access, support and realign specific inner personality parts that hold emotional pain, trauma, shame or unhelpful reactions or behaviours. This fascinating therapy takes the best of current life regression, inner child work and parts therapy to produce a brief strengths-based approach that can produce deep and long-lasting emotional shifts​, that alter reactions, feelings and behaviours.
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​​​Founded in Research and Clinical Practice The techniques used in Resource Therapy have been developed by Professor Gordon Emmerson, as an evolution of Ego State Therapy, but inspired by behavioural science and client-led practice. His solution is a structured, fast and client-empowering way to treat emotional distress, behavioural stuckness, and trauma responses, without the need for for hypnosis, deep cathartic sessions or long drawn out discussions. This tool is now used by clinicians and therapists.​​​
How does it work?
n the same way that we think of the common daisy as a single object, we tend to view our minds as a single 'thing'. Botonists will tell you however, that the daisy is made up of hundreds of tiny yellow flowers, surrounded by an outer ring of individual white petals posing as petals. In a similar way the personality is made up of a number of different personality parts, all separate but acting together, just like the many 'flowers' of the daisy. Within the mind each of those distinct personality parts may react and respond in completely different ways at specific times, depending on which one is in 'the driving seat'.
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In some specific social situations, for example, you may be confident and chatty. In others, you may find yourself self-conscious, tongue-tied and awkward, without knowing why. This difference is caused by different personality parts (or resource states) which have been formed earlier in life, typically as a result of repeating a behaviour (or coping skill) over and over again. Once triggered by some aspect of the current situation, the same feelings, behaviours or ways of responding automatically take over, irrespective of your efforts to stop. So your reactions when talking to your boss may be based on your reactions as a 6-year old when feeling unacknowledged by care-givers.
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Whilst talking therapy is always helpful, the part that intellectualises about it with a counsellor is completely different from the part that takes over the driving seat and shows up in those awkward social situations. Only by working directly with those specific parts that are triggered in those situations, can permanent realignment of part 'roles' can occur, and relief from issues be found. Whereas traditional therapy uses the analogy of peeling back the layers, just like an onion, layer by layer, by comparison in Resource Therapy, each of your parts is a separate, self-contained petal, just like the daisy. They are interconnected, but each part has its own history, its own function, and needs its own individual support. Instead of painstakingly peeling back layers, in each session, we focus specifically on one of these 'petals'. This way, each part receives precisely the attention it needs to change.
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"When clients feel an emotion that doesn't match what is happening around them, it most likely comes from a part that is carrying unresolved feelings from the past .."
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Gordon Emmerson/Chritiane Essing
Therapist Gold. Treating fear based trauma and attachment trauma
How will a session benefit me?
Resource Therapy can be worth exploring if you are trying to resolve
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fears & phobias
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stress, anxieties or insecurities
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social anxiety or feelings of low self-confidence or self-worth
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feelings of rejection, being unlovable or just not good enough
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fear of presenting, speaking up or being judged by others
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critical inner voice
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guilt & shame
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rumination
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poor performance or procrastination
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scarcity mindsets
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avoidance behaviours/addictions such as eating, drinking, overworking, shopping, phone use etc
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Inner conflict or self-sabotage
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repetitive patterns in relationships or in life
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mental tiredness, exhaustion or overwhelm
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Just like an old computer programme that has never been updated, those parts that have been working in the exact same way for decades can be 'upgraded' to take on new, more appropriate adult tasks. In doing so new neural pathways are formed in the brain, anchoring in those new preferred behaviours, so that going forward your brain and nervous system can begin to react differently to old triggers.
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Like all therapies, the aim of Resource Therapy is to regain healthy emotional self-regulation, by utilizing healthy, mature, confident parts to take 'the wheel' in challening adult situations. This releases the long-triggered, immature and unqualified parts to be reassigned to come to the fore in safe, easy and more playful situations. Together this creates a more holistic and sustainable approach to managing and realigning your old patterns of unhelpful emotions and behaviours. ​
What is a session like?
Resouce Therapy sessions are typically only an hour long. After a brief discussion, you will be guided through a specific and targeted approach that through direct dialogue with your inner self, identifies the parts connected with an earlier initial sensitising. Because such parts are often not the most appropriate for adult situations, healthier more appropriate parts are sourced that can be more helpful in normal life situations.
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The session is fast-paced, rapid and usually renergising. We do not dredge up or dwell on past events and whilst there can be occasional brief moments of emotion, the feelings of release and newfound energy that come from being reconnected with healthier, more appropriate parts, can feel revitalising. Clients typically leave with feeling positive and with a smile on their faces.
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Sessions are delivered over Zoom, with your eyes closed, but because no hypnosis is required, you can simply sit in a chair or at your desk. 3-7 sessions are recommended as we work on one issue that you are ready to change in each session.
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​I am a qualified parts therapist, inner child and current life regressionist, currently undertaking my Clinical Resource Therapy training. I offer (UK) evening Zoom sessions and some weekday and weekend sessions, to support multiple time zones.
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​​Although Resource Therapy is used psychologists and psychotherapists, my work is aimed at healthy people without a clinical diagnosis, who are willing and motivated to work on themselves. It deliberately distinguishes itself from psychotherapy, as it does not seek to to heal disease, but rather to the reorganization, realignment and strengthening of your inner resources.