What RTM Practitioners are saying about training…
For our community, RTM has the potential to change the game. It is not only cost effective but clinically effective, countering the high cost of PTSD and its impact. For example, the Congressional Budget Office estimated (based on VA data) that “PTSD could cost up to $7,000 per year per person” …for the gentleman, the 10 years he suffered through PTSD cost approximately $70,000 just in treatment costs. This study does not account for the cost to families or generational changes. In my estimation, it is the closest thing we have come in the mental healthcare system to creating systemic change, the way antibiotics did for medicine.
I watched your June 16 2019 segment with great interest. I too suffered horrifically from PTSD after with violent dreams, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts to include contemplating suicide. There is a recently released breakthrough cure for PTS. Please note I used the word “cure” not “treatment.” Every other Trauma therapy currently in use requires the client to re-live the trauma over and over again RTM is a revolutionary technique that, not only allows, but requires the client to remain in a calm and relaxed state during the process. RTM is 92% effective in 3-5 sessions of 90 minutes or less. Our country needs at least 20,000 trained LMHCs- RTM certified to adequately lend the assistance needed to stop the 22 suicides per day down to near zero and to keep families together by helping our broken warriors. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.
I wanted to introduce myself and say how impressed I am by your research and work! I was a therapist trained at Parkland and everywhere I go I try and spread the word about RTM. I have had a lot of success in my practice… My practice today consists largely of first responders or medical professionals who come to me deeply conflicted about seeking help….Your work changes people. I see it. I wanted you to know I see results in Boca Raton, Florida. I know first responders benefit but I see this protocol extended to trauma from drug epidemic and all kinds of trauma. I see lives restored and dignity given back. Blessings.
I’ve been working with 1st responders for almost 30 years and I’m angry that I didn’t have this sooner. Every clinician must be trained in RTM so together we can wipe out PTSD.
What clients are saying about treatment…
I am a United States Army Veteran. Since my discharge from the military in 2001, I have endured and suffered from service-related trauma. For close to 18 years, I have been a prisoner to my nightmares, to the hypervigilance, to my emotions, and the overwhelming guilt of the events that took place during my military service. Over these years, I have been incarcerated, hospitalized at numerous mental health institutions, and have experienced frequent, yet lengthy, periods of homelessness. I am not alone in my suffering. My family has endured in watching me go through my twisted cycle of mental and emotional torture, suicide attempt after attempt, hospital after hospital, and jail after jail. Endlessly I struggled to fight those demons within that fed on my soul. I had come to terms that this was my reality and that this would be my life of continuous darkness. I express this to you in hopes that it will help you understand the hopeless circumstances in which I once lived. Through the guidance, knowledge, and dedication of Dr. Denise Budden-Potts, I am forever thankful. The depth of my gratitude, my respect, and that of my entire being is within these words, “Thank you.” I thank you, first and foremost, for this opportunity. I thank you for Dr. Denise and the Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories method. I thank you for helping me release myself from the bondage of my past and my guilt. I thank you for now I can see the beauty around me. I thank you for the light that I now stand in. I thank you for the opportunity to be present in the moment with my family, but most of all, my son. I thank you for the gift of my life. Mostly, I thank you for allowing me the resources to learn how to finally love myself. Sincerely,
My experience with RTM has been an absolutely life changing experience. Before I went in for my first session of RTM treatment, I had been through over 2 years of therapy and was as clinically diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and the hardest of all, post traumatic stress disorder. I had a very good therapist and was making amazing progress but it just wasn’t enough, I was still dealing with the emotional and mental weight that the trauma had been putting on me. It got to the point where I just wanted something, anything, to help me finally be free. The next day someone recommended that I fill out an application for this program. I kinda freaked out when they called the next day and asked if I could meet them for my first appointment in a few hours, but I got over myself and decided to do it. After just the first appointment it felt like I was finally making real progress. After only the second appointment of RTM treatment it felt like all the weight had been lifted off of me. All that fear that I had built up inside me from many many years of trauma, suddenly gone. It felt like I could finally live my life as, me. I wasn’t that girl who was trapped in a world of fear anymore. I am now the happiest I have been since I was 11 as a little kid, and I couldn’t be more thankful.
My RTM experience was successful. I was very grateful that I already knew and trusted Sandra as my therapist. … By the third session the more I told Sandra about my trauma, the more I felt like I was telling her a story with no emotion. When I started the study, I was at 7 or 8 with anxiety… At session four I was at a 0. Thank you for letting me participate in this study it truly helped me.
Unfortunately, 5 years ago I was involved in a near-death experience. I buried my head in the sand telling myself I could deal with the mental scars that had been inflicted and telling everyone who was close to me I was ok…I wasn’t. Alcohol was my crutch, it help to numb, to sleep, to laugh, to smile…it helped to make me feel human. I wouldn’t say I was an Alcoholic but I was getting close. I was waking up through the night in cold sweats. Night terrors were nearly every other night and I would also wake up in the early hours being physically sick with fear and anxiety until my alarm clock would thankfully ring. Earlier last year I had to leave home. I had to leave my loving and doting Wife and my 3 lovely children. In my head I wasn’t fit to be a Husband and Father. Something had changed deep inside and I was the only one who hadn’t noticed how much this incident was taking a toll on my body physically and mentally. Things went from bad to worse. I was suffering with P.T.S.D., Depression and Anxiety. I was living by myself with nobody to keep a watchful eye on me. I lost days of my life by waking up and not being able to face the world. I was an emotional wreck and my alcohol intake was slowly increasing. It came to a head when I finally hit rock bottom. My wife contacted ICARUS. I can vaguely remember my first meeting with Marion (ICARUS) I was in such a state…why had it come to this? I wasn’t me; I was a shadow of my former self. I had 2 choices, drink myself to death as many of my friends had and at the time didn’t seem a bad option as I had stared death in the face or get the help I so desperately needed. Marion told me for R.T.M to work I had to be Sober, thoroughly sober. So, 5 alcohol free days later I had my first R.T.M. session. There were tears and anxiety though they were controlled by Marion and at no time was there fear. Marion was there to help and listen and also to put you at ease and over 2 R.T.M sessions (about 5 hours in total) my traumatic incident was put to bed. Mentally I could cope with it. I could talk candidly about it. The weight of survivor’s guilt that I had been carrying around for 5 years had been lifted. Life was now worth living. When you have hit rock bottom it’s a great feeling when you start to climb up. I’m now 3 weeks sober and carrying on having R.T.M. sessions for other traumatic incidents in my life and I will be moving back in with my family later in the year. If it wasn’t for ICARUS I’m not sure I would be writing this now….Unsung heroes. Many, many thanks.