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The Advanced Integrative Therapy Institute (“AITI”) is a not for profit organization that delivers Advanced Integrated Therapy (“AIT”) training, certifies mental health professionals in AIT practice, and provides humanitarian interventions to victims of violence and disasters worldwide.
In order for AITI to continue its work, it is critical that AIT be verified as evidenced based practice. AITI intends to accomplish this research through a partnership with the Institute for Workforce Solutions. We are seeking $20,000 which will completely fund a pilot study to verify that AIT is evidence based, and provide necessary seed monies for the next step in the longer term project. When we have a completed collection of the pilot study data, it will be processed and evaluated, and then adapted so we can conduct a longer study with a large number of participants.
AIT is an energy based trauma informed psychological treatment practiced internationally by clinicians, assisting in healing the bodies, minds and spirits of so many individuals affected by trauma.
Our researchers at the Institute for Workforce Solutions intend to use APA guidelines in combination with a review of the research literature developed for other accepted modalities to develop and evaluate research conducted by certified AIT practitioners and their clients. The study consists of pre and post studies of Three-Step Transformation, the central protocol of AIT Therapy.
The research and its conclusions will be overseen by the AITI Executive board. The AITI Research Committee will have an ongoing interface with the researchers throughout the project and will help ensure the integrity of data collection. Confidentiality of client and practitioner information will be strictly maintained following HIPAA guidelines. Results will be shared on the AITI website, www.aitherapy.org , and any necessary changes will be made to the research method prior to continuation of the project on a larger scale.
Please consider adding your financial support to AITI’s efforts to make Advanced Integrative Therapy an evidenced based therapy. We have trained hundreds of therapists and need your assistance to spread healing throughout the world. Thank you!
The following are testimonials on the efficacy of AIT treatment:
"Amongst the many excellent new energy psychology modalities, AIT stands out. Asha Clinton's inspired contribution has been to identify the origins and core psycho-energetic structures that underpin the anxieties, inhibitions, and distortions of personality that blight so many lives. AIT has continued to develop, deepening and broadening its application to many different areas of psychological, physical, and spiritual distress."
--Phil Mollon, creator of PEP and author of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy.
“You leave an AIT Basics Seminar ready to use it with your first client on Monday morning, and you have a buddy to practice with before you walk out the seminar door. It’s all there.”
--Linda Goranson, PhD
“After a very rough plane ride with a big drop, J was highly anxious before and during subsequent flights. We treated the trauma of the frightening ride with AIT the day before she was scheduled to fly again. She reported with amazement that she had no anxiety on that flight and has had none since!”
--Ann Patteson, LCSW
“In November, 2015 a cat scan showed a large nodule on my left thyroid. It had three tumor markers. The doctors wanted me to have it surgically removed quickly. I used several alternative methods instead, including AIT Psychogenic Cancer Work. We treated the psychological and spiritual causes of the thyroid nodule. This March I had a needle biopsy and the results were benign. The growth I gained from the AIT Cancer Work was amazing to me. The results are no cancer, extensive personal growth, and learning a great deal about the psychology of cancer.”
--Marilyn Dougall, LCSW
"I have been a therapist for more than 25 years and am so grateful to have found AIT. It has been an amazing gift in my own healing and spiritual journey and has transformed my practice and how I work with my clients. I am especially impressed with the gentleness and noninvasiveness of this therapy and the level of change I am experiencing and witnessing is exciting and encouraging. AIT gets to the source of present day issues more quickly and effectively than traditional talk therapies and allows the opportunity for deep and profound healing on all levels."
--Terry Rouprich, LCSW
“For most of my adult life I felt an underlying sense of depression and anxiety. Nothing seemed to get to the cause, including some previous therapy. However after I started AIT work, it quickly became clear that I needed to work on an early childhood trauma and how it had affected all areas of my life. Today with the help of a patient and kind AIT therapist, I am doing well.”
--Anonymous (a New Orleans therapist)
“A new client had PTSD complications after a serious car accident. Owning a car but avoiding driving, the client would come for early evening appointments by bus and after the appointment wait for the bus outside at night in the winter for 2 hrs.
The client did not want to work directly on the accident trauma, therefore I used the AIT method to treat other presenting problems or "initiating traumas" and their related "originating traumas" from early life, for example, problems at work. S/he could not independently have a say, or work out, or "drive" situations in his/her early life through self expression in a safe environment, there was suppression and danger. This paralleled the same circumstances as the car accident.
After a few months I asked the client how things were going with the bus. S/he had started driving again, without really thinking about it or understanding how the resistance was overcome, until we reviewed the work accomplished through the AIT method.”
--Kathy Rousseau
“Advanced integrative therapy is a powerful modality that allows people to heal more quickly while garnering a deeper understanding of their experiences and, ultimately, to come home to themselves. Rather than merely learning to live with symptoms, my clients learn to interpret and work with the messages communicated by these symptoms. Many people initially report the experience of feeling trapped or enslaved by longstanding patterns of negative experiences or maladaptive behaviors. AIT provides a concrete method of processing patterns and moving beyond them, many times never to be experienced again. It is a simple, elegant, and utilitarian response to the question of how people can heal and grow into the individuals that they have always felt they were but yet hurt to much to be.”
--Mary Smith-West, LCSW
“I’ve had the privilege to be trained by several masters in my long career—Virginia Satir, William Emerson, Marion Woodman, Patricia Dunbar. All of these informed and shaped the way I worked with people. Now I use AIT with all of my clients to obtain deeper and more thorough healing. Very difficult issues such as intractable depression, phobias, GAD, OCD, addictions and more resolve and don’t recur. Since AIT is an integrative therapy, and physical problems mirror psychological and spiritual traumas, I was able to increase one client’s kidney function from 18% to 35% so she could stay off of dialysis, and reduce and/or eliminate anal spasms, heart arrhythmia, blood pressure and rosacea in a woman who was raped at age 4 . Being able to treat ancestral and cultural trauma, recently acknowledged in the literature as being genetically passed on, is an essential part of treatment . And the unique process of three-step transformation takes clients to places I couldn’t reach before.”
-- Susan Josephson, LCSW
“What I’ve learned from having cancer-- including two recurrences-- is that no cancer treatment is permanent if it doesn’t deal with the psychological and spiritual causes of the disease. Advanced Integrative Therapy is one of few modalities that does just that. It is comprehensive in that it works with biological, immune system, nutritional, spiritual, and genetic factors and how they affect our psychological immunity. The first time I was diagnosed with cancer 18 years ago; my cancer appeared again four years ago, and again as a metastasis to bone and lung lining four months ago. Thank God for AIT!! After having 10 sessions of AIT with Asha Clinton, the traumatic psychological patterns that were the hidden causes of my cancer and recurrences became clear. After we treated them using the AIT Cancer Work protocols, I felt an immense inner shift. I saw my whole life though a different lens. The relief and understanding that this brought was a jolt of grace. And less than one month later, a PET scan showed no cancer in my body.”
--Ananda Joy
The Advanced Integrative Therapy Institute (“AITI”) is a not for profit organization that delivers Advanced Integrated Therapy (“AIT”) training, certifies mental health professionals in AIT practice, and provides humanitarian interventions to victims of violence and disasters worldwide.
In order for AITI to continue its work, it is critical that AIT be verified as evidenced based practice. AITI intends to accomplish this research through a partnership with the Institute for Workforce Solutions. We are seeking $20,000 which will completely fund a pilot study to verify that AIT is evidence based, and provide necessary seed monies for the next step in the longer term project. When we have a completed collection of the pilot study data, it will be processed and evaluated, and then adapted so we can conduct a longer study with a large number of participants.
AIT is an energy based trauma informed psychological treatment practiced internationally by clinicians, assisting in healing the bodies, minds and spirits of so many individuals affected by trauma.
Our researchers at the Institute for Workforce Solutions intend to use APA guidelines in combination with a review of the research literature developed for other accepted modalities to develop and evaluate research conducted by certified AIT practitioners and their clients. The study consists of pre and post studies of Three-Step Transformation, the central protocol of AIT Therapy.
The research and its conclusions will be overseen by the AITI Executive board. The AITI Research Committee will have an ongoing interface with the researchers throughout the project and will help ensure the integrity of data collection. Confidentiality of client and practitioner information will be strictly maintained following HIPAA guidelines. Results will be shared on the AITI website, www.aitherapy.org , and any necessary changes will be made to the research method prior to continuation of the project on a larger scale.
Please consider adding your financial support to AITI’s efforts to make Advanced Integrative Therapy an evidenced based therapy. We have trained hundreds of therapists and need your assistance to spread healing throughout the world. Thank you!
The following are testimonials on the efficacy of AIT treatment:
"Amongst the many excellent new energy psychology modalities, AIT stands out. Asha Clinton's inspired contribution has been to identify the origins and core psycho-energetic structures that underpin the anxieties, inhibitions, and distortions of personality that blight so many lives. AIT has continued to develop, deepening and broadening its application to many different areas of psychological, physical, and spiritual distress."
--Phil Mollon, creator of PEP and author of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy.
“You leave an AIT Basics Seminar ready to use it with your first client on Monday morning, and you have a buddy to practice with before you walk out the seminar door. It’s all there.”
--Linda Goranson, PhD
“After a very rough plane ride with a big drop, J was highly anxious before and during subsequent flights. We treated the trauma of the frightening ride with AIT the day before she was scheduled to fly again. She reported with amazement that she had no anxiety on that flight and has had none since!”
--Ann Patteson, LCSW
“In November, 2015 a cat scan showed a large nodule on my left thyroid. It had three tumor markers. The doctors wanted me to have it surgically removed quickly. I used several alternative methods instead, including AIT Psychogenic Cancer Work. We treated the psychological and spiritual causes of the thyroid nodule. This March I had a needle biopsy and the results were benign. The growth I gained from the AIT Cancer Work was amazing to me. The results are no cancer, extensive personal growth, and learning a great deal about the psychology of cancer.”
--Marilyn Dougall, LCSW
"I have been a therapist for more than 25 years and am so grateful to have found AIT. It has been an amazing gift in my own healing and spiritual journey and has transformed my practice and how I work with my clients. I am especially impressed with the gentleness and noninvasiveness of this therapy and the level of change I am experiencing and witnessing is exciting and encouraging. AIT gets to the source of present day issues more quickly and effectively than traditional talk therapies and allows the opportunity for deep and profound healing on all levels."
--Terry Rouprich, LCSW
“For most of my adult life I felt an underlying sense of depression and anxiety. Nothing seemed to get to the cause, including some previous therapy. However after I started AIT work, it quickly became clear that I needed to work on an early childhood trauma and how it had affected all areas of my life. Today with the help of a patient and kind AIT therapist, I am doing well.”
--Anonymous (a New Orleans therapist)
“A new client had PTSD complications after a serious car accident. Owning a car but avoiding driving, the client would come for early evening appointments by bus and after the appointment wait for the bus outside at night in the winter for 2 hrs.
The client did not want to work directly on the accident trauma, therefore I used the AIT method to treat other presenting problems or "initiating traumas" and their related "originating traumas" from early life, for example, problems at work. S/he could not independently have a say, or work out, or "drive" situations in his/her early life through self expression in a safe environment, there was suppression and danger. This paralleled the same circumstances as the car accident.
After a few months I asked the client how things were going with the bus. S/he had started driving again, without really thinking about it or understanding how the resistance was overcome, until we reviewed the work accomplished through the AIT method.”
--Kathy Rousseau
“Advanced integrative therapy is a powerful modality that allows people to heal more quickly while garnering a deeper understanding of their experiences and, ultimately, to come home to themselves. Rather than merely learning to live with symptoms, my clients learn to interpret and work with the messages communicated by these symptoms. Many people initially report the experience of feeling trapped or enslaved by longstanding patterns of negative experiences or maladaptive behaviors. AIT provides a concrete method of processing patterns and moving beyond them, many times never to be experienced again. It is a simple, elegant, and utilitarian response to the question of how people can heal and grow into the individuals that they have always felt they were but yet hurt to much to be.”
--Mary Smith-West, LCSW
“I’ve had the privilege to be trained by several masters in my long career—Virginia Satir, William Emerson, Marion Woodman, Patricia Dunbar. All of these informed and shaped the way I worked with people. Now I use AIT with all of my clients to obtain deeper and more thorough healing. Very difficult issues such as intractable depression, phobias, GAD, OCD, addictions and more resolve and don’t recur. Since AIT is an integrative therapy, and physical problems mirror psychological and spiritual traumas, I was able to increase one client’s kidney function from 18% to 35% so she could stay off of dialysis, and reduce and/or eliminate anal spasms, heart arrhythmia, blood pressure and rosacea in a woman who was raped at age 4 . Being able to treat ancestral and cultural trauma, recently acknowledged in the literature as being genetically passed on, is an essential part of treatment . And the unique process of three-step transformation takes clients to places I couldn’t reach before.”
-- Susan Josephson, LCSW
“What I’ve learned from having cancer-- including two recurrences-- is that no cancer treatment is permanent if it doesn’t deal with the psychological and spiritual causes of the disease. Advanced Integrative Therapy is one of few modalities that does just that. It is comprehensive in that it works with biological, immune system, nutritional, spiritual, and genetic factors and how they affect our psychological immunity. The first time I was diagnosed with cancer 18 years ago; my cancer appeared again four years ago, and again as a metastasis to bone and lung lining four months ago. Thank God for AIT!! After having 10 sessions of AIT with Asha Clinton, the traumatic psychological patterns that were the hidden causes of my cancer and recurrences became clear. After we treated them using the AIT Cancer Work protocols, I felt an immense inner shift. I saw my whole life though a different lens. The relief and understanding that this brought was a jolt of grace. And less than one month later, a PET scan showed no cancer in my body.”
--Ananda Joy
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Susan Josephson
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New Orleans, LA
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