Regression Therapists
Regression therapists will help you access and resolve memories from your past that has been causing unwanted symptoms of intrusive thoughts, emotions and unexplainable physical pain. Many health issues do not manifest randomly, but when emotional and psychological stresses have affected or weakened the body’s defences.
Regression therapy can be done in a therapy room or by using the internet and is available internationally including the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Africa, Singapore and Asia.
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Expert Insight
Andy Tomlinson founder of the Past Life Regression Academy, psychologist, psychotherapist and regression therapist for 27 years
Many therapies just focus on reducing symptoms, regression therapy on the other hand resolves a client's problem by clearing and transforming the source memory. It is a little like having a splinter under the skin, and you can either put a plaster on it so the surface is healed but the pain still comes through. Or you can totally remove the splinter and allow full healing to take place, although there will some discomfort as the thorn is removed. And in regression therapy that involves going to the source memory and releasing buried and trapped emotions from an old emotional wound. And once this is done it becomes easier to have new understanding and spiritual perspective.
And not only are symptoms resolved but it also leads to soul growth. Buddha said there are four steps. Understand you have a problem, know what caused it, let it go with a new understanding and integrate the changes into your life. And all these are done within a regression therapy session.
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The biggest caution is finding a therapist who is professionally trained to a high standard. This is an unregulated market and people can take a home study course for a few hours and call themselves a regression therapist. Its like someone doing a home study course to become a surgeon. When you go for an operation, you expect the surgeon to have been trained to the highest standard and mentored by an expert until they are seen to have the skills needed.
And the same applies to regression therapy which is why associations such as the Spiritual Regression Therapy Association and the EARTh Association of RegressionTherapy have the highest international professional standards so you can be safe using their regression therapists.
What is Regression Therapy and How Does it Help?
The wound of an unexpressed emotion can spill over in emotional outbursts or produce physically symptoms such as a headache, difficulty sleeping, irritable bowel syndrome, fatigue or another psychosomatic illness
Regression Therapy uses a range of psychotherapeutic techniques, with a special focus on regression to the source of an issue and using transpersonal experiences to transform them. Regression can go into current life memories, childhood or even prenatal ones. When past life stories appear the regression therapist does not try and prove the truth of them. It is your interpretation that is important and the story can be viewed as a metaphor that provides a powerful healing.
With traumatic memories such as post-traumatic stress disorder, regression therapy includes body memory transformation. This is because physical as well as emotional memories are stored in the trauma and need to be cleared and transformed.
It also involves ways of clearing your energy field. This may be a spirit attachment that is the residual energy following a death that could attach to you and affect your thoughts, emotions or behaviours. Whatever your beliefs about them, many unwanted thoughts and emotions can be cleared very quickly by removing the spirit attachment.
Regression therapists can resolve a wide range of emotions including powerless, anger, anxiety, shame, depression, anxiety and guilt.
A range of medical issues have been effectively treated by medical doctors trained as regression therapists such as infertility, repeated loss of consciousness, asthma and autoimmune disorders. It can help with unexplainable physical symptoms that do not have a medical explanation such as phantom pains, headaches, tendencies for repeated infection, allergies, post-traumatic stress and other conditions.
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The healing is frequently dramatic and often exceed expectations. It is not uncommon to hear of clients feeling transformed in such a way that the measurable symptoms of their problem disappear completely in a few sessions.
Costs are typically £70 to £110 an hour and sessions around two hours in duration.
What Happens in a Regression Therapy Session?
The initial interview enables the therapist to understand your issue, if regression therapy is appropriate and explain the process and logistics. And it is also for you to ensure that you have a therapist you want to work with. Some regression therapists track progress more objectively and will ask you for a level from zero to ten for the intrusive thought, emotion or physical symptom and its frequency. After each session the symptoms can be tracked for progress by the change of level or frequency.
In a session you will be asked to lie down or sit in a reclining chair and the therapist may use light trace or ask you to concentrate on a thought, emotion or somatic part of the issue you want to resolve. Your subconscious mind will help guide you to the source memory and simple open-ended questions from the therapist are used to explore it.
Sometimes an unexpressed emotion is blocked from conscious awareness and the skill of the therapist will help unblock it.
With close support, you may have a flood of emotions including the release of fear, grief, pain and despair when the memory is experienced fully in the body. Called a catharsis it may appear frightening to an uninformed observer, but is crucial for healing and you will feel a great relief after releasing it.
The body often carries the memory of traumatic events and needs to be involved in the transformation by using body therapy. This involves some aspect of body movement. If you had been held down during a trauma you may want to push away, or if you had unexpressed anger you may want to shout.
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When you understand what caused your problem, the blocked emotions have been released, and are guided to give and receive love and extend forgiveness to those who have wronged you, complete healing can take place.
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You have the option of having the session in a therapy room or by the internet. With the internet you will need to have a room free from disturbance where you can lay down, a computer/lap top with camera and microphone, and a fast stable internet. The regression therapist will assist you to becoming familiar with the technology, and will discuss and agree a backup to communicate if the internet fails which may be a mobile switched into silent mode.
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What is its History?
Sigmund Freud introduced the idea of trauma memories in the subconscious mind being brought too conscious awareness for healing. Carl Jung’s contribution was active imagination and the use of guided imagery techniques both that are used in Regression Therapy.
British psychiatrist Alexander Cannon in the 1950's regressed over 1400 patients with symptoms that were not responding to conventional therapy with significant improvements. In the 1970s hypnotic age regression had become generally accepted by the medical profession.
In the 1980’s Roger Woolger introduced the importance of working with body memories to clear deep trauma. John Bradshaw author of Homecoming pioneered inner child regression which has helped thousands of people to heal traumas from their childhood.
In 2008 the Spiritual Regression Therapy Association was founded to establish international professional standards in spiritual regression therapy and works closely with other regression therapy associations with similar standards including the EARTh Association of Regression Therapy.
When is not be Right for Me?
If you have a serous medial health issue such as psychosis, or are taking strong medication such as chemo-therapy for cancer its best to wait until the treatment is complete. If you prefer to have a session without emotions emerging then a different therapy may be appropriate. If the session is for your children there are specialised regression techniques and the therapist will need to have training in that area.
What Scientific Evidence is there that Regression Therapy will Resolve my Issue?
In the book Inner Healing Journey psychiatrists and medical doctors trained in regression therapy have case studies of their patients that resolved many illness including blackouts, insomnia, migraine and asthma.
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Andy Tomlinson led a team who analysed 636 regression therapy clients selected with a focus on unexplainable physical pain symptoms. On average after two regression therapy sessions there was a dramatic reduction or elimination of the symptoms.
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Professor A.K. Groen of Amsterdam University Medical Centre investigated the effectiveness of regression therapy in treating a wide spectrum of emotional and medically unexplained symptoms. 169 subjects were used and the results showed a significant and substantial decrease after four months of treatment. Notably, a single session proved satisfactory for many participants.
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More evidence comes from the research by the SRTA members and others
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Is there a Risk of false memories?
The professionally trained regression therapists of the SRTA ask open questions such as “What is happening?” or “Tell me more” or “Describe what you are experiencing?” This way emerging past life memories or current life ones can be explored without the risk of false memories.
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Key Take Aways
Regression therapy involves past life, current life and inner child regression by going to the source of an issue, releasing trapped emotions and helping the client transform the memory.
Regression therapy resolves a wide range of intrusive thought, emotions, explainable pain and trauma in just a few sessions
Transpersonal healing techniques add a spiritual dimension to the healing process
This is one of the few therapies that quickly resolves deep trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder by including body therapy.
Some critics have suggested false memories could be created by a regression therapist. However, regression therapists that are professionally trained only ask simple open questions such as “what happens next” that allows a memory to emerge naturally.
Finding a therapist trained to the right standard is important and the major regression therapy association are the Spiritual Regression Therapy Association and the EARTh Association of RegressionTherapy.
