Explore the TR6 Trauma Model™, a framework developed by psychotherapist Deirdre Rolfe to examine how people respond to complex and relational trauma. Follow the link to take the free self-reflection assessment, read the published article, learn about Deirdre’s clinical work, and explore what the model may reveal about your own experience.
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Evidence-Based. Existential. Embodied.
With more than three decades of professional experience, I work as a Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Level 4 Supervisor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, author, and creator of an original therapeutic model "TR6 Trauma Model" and provide Professional therapeutic tools & resources for professional Counsellors, Social Workers, Coaches and individuals seeking uniquely holistic and evidence based mthods for healing. I am the author of You Are as Sick as Your Secrets: Trauma Understands Trauma, Dark Contracts, and The TR6 Trauma Model, and the creator of TraumaCode: Symbols, Metaphors and Rituals, a 96-card and booklet system for personal development and therapeutic insight.
Throughout my career I have worked in private practice and held senior clinical roles, including Head Therapist in a dual-diagnosis retreat settings. This breadth of experience has given me a deep and practical understanding of trauma, addiction, anxiety, relational injury, and the complex ways people learn to survive what has happened to them.
If you have arrived here carrying the layered weight of trauma, grief, anxiety, abuse, loss, addiction, dsyregulation, low confidence, distrust or years of unprocessed life experience, you are in the right place.
This is depth work
Working Beneath the Surface
I believe healing often requires us to go beyond conventional language and beyond the limits of purely linear understanding. Sometimes the unconscious speaks through image, body, symbol, ritual, dream, metaphor, contradiction, and felt sense. Sometimes the deepest truth of a person’s suffering is not sitting on the surface waiting to be explained. It must be approached with care, depth, courage, and skill.
I offer a therapeutic process that is evidence based, psychologically rigorous, and deeply human. My aim is to help people not simply cope, but become more conscious, more integrated, more resilient, and more able to live from a stronger and more authentic centre.
Areas of Clinical Focus
I work with the complexities of trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, dissociation, stress, anxiety, childhood abuse, PTSD, complex trauma,attachments, couple's therapy, grief and loss, resilience, existential growth, addictions, narcissitic, psychopathic abuse, weight-related struggles, fear of flying, confidence, smoking cessation, and the accumulated burden of life’s ingested pain.
I treat the whole person as a unique psychological system with multiple parts, contradictions, defences, resistance, adaptative and maladaptive behaviours, resilience and strengths. I work not only with what is conscious and visible, but with what sits underneath: the unconscious pattern, the embodied wound, the defended story, the symbolic language, and the parts of the self that hide in shame, conditioned responses, triggers, projections, patterns, habits, self esteem, fear, silence,masking or other survival or protective modes..
My work integrates evidence-based psychological treatments with a broader existential, Jungian, somatic, and symbolic approach. I draw from EMDR, CBT, ACT, DBT, NLP, clinical hypnosis, parts therapy, ego state work, narrative therapy, psychodrama, psycholinguistic inquiry, somatic body work, breathwork, mindfulness, modern Buddhist principles, symbolism, rituals, metaphor, shadow work, philosophy, and nature-based reflection. I also integrate my own original clinical framework, including the TR6 Trauma Model and Assessment.
These modalities are woven together carefully according to the person, the problem, the readiness, and the depth of work required.
As a therapist, I focus on the deeper architecture of suffering and healing. I want to understand how a person has come to be organised as they are, what has been defended against, what keeps repeating, what the body is carrying, what the psyche is trying to express, and what needs to be made conscious in order for change to become real.
This means therapy with me is humanistic, highly individualized, tool based and engaged, thoughtful, strategic and with a goal of profound change. It may involve unpacking thematic adaptations or outcomes of trauma, working through resistance, understanding repeated patterns, bringing language to what has never fully been named, reworking the internal story, and helping a person move from fragmentation toward integration.
Begin the Conversation
If you are seeking a therapist, supervisor, guide for serious inner work, or are interested in professional collaboration, I invite you to reach out.
I look forward to working with you.
Deirdre Rolfe
Clinical Psychotherapist • Evidence Based • Existential • Embodied
Phone: 0412 106 496
International tel:+61412106496
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/counselling/counselloroncall-eganstown-vic/1091212
