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Unmasking with the Values Based Integration Process

Preventing Trauma for Complex Care Patients

I first entered the new wing of the Hospital for Sick Children in February 1993 – just over 27 years ago.

Since that time I have had operations, birthed babies, spent time in the NICU, attended outpatient appointments, spent time in the ER, spent time with my kids as inpatients all in this building.

I have been told that in this time, a major shift has taken place in health care, with much higher numbers of complex care patients, and a much higher need for interconnected care. I don’t know the reasons for this, but I DO know that we are not prepared for this as individuals or as a health care system.

There are lots of things that are needed to create the changes that we require. I’m sure lots of them are expensive or complex, but you know what isn’t expensive? Letting patients know that they are SEEN. Acknowledging that what is going on in their lives is HARD. Admitting that you don’t always have the answers, but that you will take seriously the work required to properly find them!

 

This is how you reduce trauma.

 

This is how you rewire the brain to heal from trauma.

 

This is how you create nets and bridges between the cracks and fissures that we are all falling through.

 

You connect.

 

You create a shared story of humanity.

 

And it might not fix the underlying condition, but it WILL lower stress levels in patients, families and caregivers alike, which in turn will improve communication and – I predict – improve patient outcomes in the short and long term.

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About the program

In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.

Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!

After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.

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