Values Based Integration
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Introducing Jess
Hello! My name is Jess (she/her), and I am a Registered Social Worker and a Registered Clinical Counsellor in British Columbia. I took the VBIP training with Heather in April 2024, and I started using it right away. At the time I am writing this, I have started the Process with ~30 clients (~15 of… Continue reading
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Full Circle
As anyone who has a “contact me” link on their website knows, you can get a wide range of excellent queries but also an incredibly high number of SEO offers and spam. Because of that, it can become just one more channel to check in a host of emails, texts, social media accounts and more. Continue reading
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VBIP and Thriving After Adverse Religious Experiences and High (Religious) Control Environments
Because of the enormous success of Dr. Devon Price’s Unmasking Autism and the way the Values Based Integration Process (VBIP) is highlighted in that book, VBIP has been highly connected to its success as a strategy for those who are Autistic. What I have talked less about is the ways that VBIP was designed intentionally Continue reading
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Registration Open for First In-Person Training
As promised before the holidays, registration is now open for our first in-person training for the Values Based Integration Process! The dates are February 21-22. The times are 9am to 5pm. The place is Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto in Toronto. The cost is just $300/each, including lunch and snacks both days. For Continue reading
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Introducing Amelia
As our trained coaches gain confidence in their coaching skills, from time to time we will feature their stories – and contact details – here on the blog. Today’s guest writer is Amelia. If you have completed the training and would like to be featured on the blog, please reach out to me at poweredbylove.ca@gmail.com. Continue reading
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Shifting my Unmasking from Revealing to Unearthing
When I took the Values-Based Integration training, I hesitated to engage with the concept of unmasking again. I had already tried unmasking, and it went really badly. The only reason I showed up was because I had read about the process of finding values within your stories, which resonated with me in a way that Continue reading
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The Magic Of Discovering Our Unique Values
I wish I could collect values. In my coaching practice, I have the pleasure of hearing my clients’ Fully Alive stories and guiding them through the process of discovering their unique values. Unlike the lists of “common value words” that get handed out in some therapy offices, clients discover values that are so uniquely them Continue reading
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Gentle Unmasking: Transformations Don’t Have To Be Painful
I used to be the “tough love” therapist. I believed confronting people with the “truth” would be an emotional jolt that could facilitate change. And sometimes it worked. Whenever I met with clients who were intellectualisers like me, being presented with a new “theory” or idea offered a “high”. New and novel perspectives can feel Continue reading
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Stories Before Scars: How Talking About My Fully Alive Moments Shifted My Embodied Experience Of Joy
As a survivor of attachment trauma, the hardest part of recovery has been letting joy in. Joy doesn’t feel safe. What if I let down my guard and another terrible, traumatizing thing happens? I’ve had enough of that. I don’t think I can take more. Joy feels like a trap. When I started the Values Continue reading
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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