Integrative and Specialised

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As an integrative therapist at Shattered Hearts Revived Therapy, I draw from multiple evidence-based and specialised approaches to best support your individual needs. This allows therapy to remain flexible, trauma-informed, and responsive to the complexities of betrayal trauma, relational injury, dissociation, and nervous system overwhelm. Rather than relying on a single modality, I carefully integrate approaches that prioritise safety, stabilisation, and sustainable healing.

My work is particularly informed by specialist training in betrayal trauma and partner-focused recovery, alongside trauma-processing and attachment-based frameworks. Depending on your needs, therapy may include:

• APSATS Partner Trauma Model (MPTM)

• Brainspotting (trauma-focused processing)

• Attachment-informed therapy

• Nervous system stabilisation and regulation

• Parts-informed and dissociation-aware approaches

• Gottman-informed relational work (where appropriate)

• ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model) – trained

The Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM), developed by Carol Sheets (Carol the Coach), is a structured, trauma-informed approach designed to support couples healing from sexual betrayal, infidelity, and addiction-related relational trauma. This model emphasises emotional safety, empathy development, and consistent accountability as the foundation for rebuilding trust after relational rupture.

ERCEM guides couples through three clinically attuned stages: safety and stabilisation, grief and anger processing, and post-traumatic growth. This phased approach aligns closely with trauma-informed care and helps ensure that couples are not pushed prematurely into traditional couples work before sufficient emotional safety and individual stabilisation are established.

Together, these specialised approaches allow me to offer therapy that is paced, contained, and deeply attuned to the lived realities of complex trauma and betrayal, ensuring that healing work is both compassionate and clinically grounded.