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The Trauma Recovery Institute, The Trauma Recovery Institute At 10 Merrion Square, Dublin (2026)

08/02/2026

In DPP, trauma and disease aren’t things stored in the body — they are stable attractor states of a system that learned survival under constraint, and healing means changing the landscape, not fighting the symptoms. ❤️‍🩹

07/02/2026

A New Paradigm in Understanding & Treating Complex Trauma

For decades, CPTSD has been treated as something to remove — through techniques, regulation strategies, or drugs.

This assumes trauma is linear, localisable, and fixable.

From a systems perspective, this is a category error.

Complex trauma is not a chemical problem or a faulty circuit.
It is a self-organising adaptation of a living, relational system under prolonged developmental stress.

What looks like collapse, shutdown, hyper-vigilance, appeasement, or exhaustion is not pathology.

It is organisation.

Change does not come from forcing regulation, but from changing the conditions under which the system operates.

At The Trauma Recovery Institute, our work is grounded in complexity science and systems thinking.

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The Trauma Recovery Institute
🌐 www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com

07/02/2026

Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies for clinicians at The Trauma Recovery Institute. DPP is a new paradigm in understanding and treating Cptsd. DPP is a systems-biology and neuroscience-based framework for understanding trauma, chronic dysregulation, and complex relational injury.

This is not a techniques course.
It is a reframing of trauma itself.

The Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies trains clinicians in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) — a systems-biology and neuroscience-based framework for understanding trauma, chronic dysregulation, and complex relational injury.

DPP does not teach trauma as:
– an event
– a diagnosis
– a collection of symptoms

Instead, trauma is understood as a dynamic, adaptive reorganisation of the human system across development, nervous system regulation, affect, identity, metabolism, and relationships.

This programme represents a decisive departure from:
– technique-driven models
– symptom-focused interventions
– purely cognitive or nervous-system-only approaches

DPP is grounded in:
• complexity science
• systems biology
• developmental neuroscience
• affect regulation theory
• relational neurobiology

Programme overview
• 12 or 24 months
• 100% online (recorded lectures + live consultations)
• 10 in-depth modules
• 10 one-to-one live video consultations with the Director (included)
• Fee: €4,500

This training is conceptually rigorous by design.
It is intended for clinicians who are ready to think beyond linear models and work with trauma as a multi-level adaptive process, not a symptom to be managed.

📍 The Trauma Recovery Institute
🌐 www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📧 darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

A new paradigm in trauma theory and clinical practice through complexity and systems thinking.

27/01/2026

Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies
Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) at The Trauma Recovery Institute

This is not a techniques course.
It is a reframing of trauma itself.

The Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies trains clinicians in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) — a systems-biology and neuroscience-based framework for understanding trauma, chronic dysregulation, and complex relational injury.

DPP does not teach trauma as:
– an event
– a diagnosis
– a collection of symptoms

Instead, trauma is understood as a dynamic, adaptive reorganisation of the human system across development, nervous system regulation, affect, identity, metabolism, and relationships.

This programme represents a decisive departure from:
– technique-driven models
– symptom-focused interventions
– purely cognitive or nervous-system-only approaches

DPP is grounded in:
• complexity science
• systems biology
• developmental neuroscience
• affect regulation theory
• relational neurobiology

Programme overview
• 12 or 24 months
• 100% online (recorded lectures + live consultations)
• 10 in-depth modules
• 10 one-to-one live video consultations with the Director (included)
• Fee: €4,500

This training is conceptually rigorous by design.
It is intended for clinicians who are ready to think beyond linear models and work with trauma as a multi-level adaptive process, not a symptom to be managed.

📍 The Trauma Recovery Institute
🌐 www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📧 darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

A new paradigm in trauma theory and clinical practice.

25/01/2026

Polarity & Its Misconceptions
Why modern relationships struggle — a systems view

Polarity is not optional.
It is a fundamental property of all living, adaptive systems.

Any system that can survive and evolve requires directionality:
toward / away
leading / following
stabilising / destabilising

Relationships are no exception.

Yet modern relationships are increasingly organised around sameness:

– equal roles everywhere
– shared responsibility in all domains
– 50/50 finances
– emotional symmetry
– equality treated as identical function

Equality of dignity is essential.
But complex systems do not stay healthy through sameness.

They stay healthy through differentiation, polarity, and complementarity.

In intimate relationships:

• co-regulation cannot be fully symmetrical
• someone contains while the other expresses
• someone stabilises while the other explores

These roles are not fixed — but they must exist.

When polarity is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear.
It gets displaced.

Clinically, this shows up as:

– chronic resentment despite “fair” arrangements
– loss of attraction and sexual distance
– emotional flatness disguised as cooperation
– score-keeping and moral conflict
– parent–child dynamics between adults

At The Trauma Recovery Institute, we don’t try to “balance” couples.
We work at the relational system level.

We identify where polarity has collapsed, rigidified, or been displaced by trauma —
and help couples restore flexible, chosen, reversible polarity.

Healthy relationships are not identical systems.
They are coordinated systems.

When polarity becomes flexible again,
intimacy, attraction, and emotional safety tend to return.

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TIRM Couples Work
A systems-based, trauma-informed relational approach
Rooted in DPP • Complexity Science • Relational Neuroscience

📍 The Trauma Recovery Institute
🌐 www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📩 darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

24/01/2026

Polarity & its misconceptions
Why modern relationships struggle — a systems view

At The Trauma Recovery Institute, our couples work is grounded in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) and the Trauma-Informed Relational Model (TIRM) — a systems-based approach to intimacy, trauma, and relational breakdown.

From a complex systems perspective, one thing is clear:

Polarity is not optional.

All living, adaptive systems require directionality —
toward / away • stabilising / destabilising • leading / following.
Relationships are no exception.

Many modern relationships are organised around sameness:
equal roles everywhere, shared responsibility in all domains, 50/50 finances, emotional symmetry.

While equality of dignity is essential, complex systems do not remain healthy through sameness.
They remain healthy through polarity and complementarity.

When polarity is suppressed, it does not disappear — it gets displaced.

In TIRM, we don’t try to balance couples or make partners the same.
We work at the relational system level, helping couples restore flexible, chosen polarity so the relationship can regulate, adapt, and feel alive again.

Healthy relationships are not identical systems.
They are coordinated systems.

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TIRM Couples Work
Systems-based • Trauma-informed • DPP

10/01/2026

Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies (DPP)
A Systems Biology & Neuroscientific Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Approach at The Trauma Recovery Institute.

This is not another trauma model.
It is a new paradigm for understanding and treating complex trauma and chronic disease presentations.

DPP trains clinicians to think in systems, not symptoms.

Trauma is not located in the body, the brain, or biochemistry.
It is distributed across interacting systems — emergent, self-organised, and stabilised as a maladaptive whole-system pattern.
Reductionist trauma models fail because trauma is not local. Science and long-term clinical observation make this unequivocally clear.

12–24 months · Online + live video lectures · €4,500

🔗 https://www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com/courses/advanced-diploma-in-trauma-studies-2/
📧 Darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

The programme is dense with doctoral-level content, integrating complexity science, chaos theory, non-linear dynamical systems, interpersonal neurobiology, affect regulation theory, cell danger response theory, Polyvagal theory, object relations theory, lifestyle and network medicine, homeodynamic theory, and relational psychology.

07/01/2026

A New Revolution in Trauma Theory & Clinical Practice

For the first time in trauma training, complexity theory and nonlinear dynamical systems science are brought directly into clinical trauma theory and practice.

This is not another model or modality.
It is a fundamental shift in how trauma, healing, and human regulation are understood.

📘 Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP)
12–24 months · Online
The Trauma Recovery Institute

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Trauma is not linear.
Neither are the brain or body.

Contemporary science shows that human regulation functions more like weather systems or ecosystems:
• complex
• adaptive
• nonlinear
• governed by feedback loops

Yet most trauma trainings remain linear, technique-driven, and reductionist.

DPP trains clinicians to think — and intervene — in systems.

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Trauma, Reframed

Trauma is understood not as a memory or event, but as a multisystem developmental reorganisation involving:
• autonomic constraint
• metabolic and cellular defence
• affective misattunement
• relational disruption
• identity fragmentation

Trauma becomes a system-level pattern.
Recovery becomes a system-level reorganisation.

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DPP is not a collection of techniques.
It is a new clinical operating system for trauma treatment.

🔗 Programme details www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com

📩 Darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp +353 89 229 3698

02/01/2026

Now Accepting Couples ✨

TIRM Conscious Relationship Coaching
@ The Trauma Recovery Institute

A new way of understanding, healing, and growing together.

If you already know that relationship challenges aren’t solved by communication tips alone, TIRM may be for you.

The Trauma-Informed Relational Model (TIRM) helps couples understand what’s happening beneath conflict, distance, or repeating patterns — at the level of the nervous system, attachment history, and the relationship itself.

This isn’t about fixing one another.
It’s about transforming the relational system you share.

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Why Couples Choose TIRM

Most couples are taught to manage or avoid conflict.

TIRM sees conflict differently.
Not as failure — but as a signal that your relationship is trying to change.

• Conflict has meaning
• Repair creates growth
• The relationship itself becomes the healing environment

Instead of forcing new behaviours, we work with how relationships naturally reorganise when safety and regulation are restored.

This is conscious relationship work — at a deeper level.

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What You’ll Experience

Through the TIRM coaching process, couples learn how to:

• Understand their nervous system dynamics together
• Recognise recurring patterns without blame or shame
• Increase emotional capacity and felt safety
• Move out of cycles of conflict, shutdown, or distance
• Strengthen repair, synchrony, and connection
• Restore intimacy, polarity, and shared direction

This is not crisis management.
It’s deep relational restructuring.

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A Relationship That Heals

In TIRM, your relationship becomes a regulatory ecosystem — a place where old trauma patterns are understood rather than reenacted, and where new ways of relating emerge naturally through repair and connection.

This is how relational trauma actually heals:
within relationship, not outside of it.

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Now Accepting Couples

🌍 www.traumarecoveryinstitute.com
📧 darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

28/12/2025

📘 Advanced Diploma in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP)
12 months · Online · €4,500

A next-generation, systems-based training in trauma theory and clinical practice.

🧠 Beyond events, memories, and techniques
Most trauma trainings teach methods.
DPP trains clinicians to think in systems.

Trauma is understood as a multisystem developmental reorganisation—across biology, nervous system, relationships, identity, and behaviour.
Recovery becomes system-level reorganisation, not symptom management.

🔬 Integrates neuroscience, systems biology, affect regulation, relational psychology, lifestyle medicine, and object relations into one coherent clinical framework.

👥 Includes specialist training in TIRM for Couples
— relational regulation, co-regulation, rupture–repair, and attachment trauma.

🎓 For psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, somatic practitioners & allied health professionals working with complex trauma.

🔗 Programme details:
www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com

📧 Darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

11/12/2025

TIRM — Trauma-Informed Relational Model

Most couples therapy teaches communication tools.
TIRM changes the entire system.

Our Trauma-Informed Relational Model reframes conflict, intimacy, and emotional patterns through Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) and systems biology, offering a deeper, more accurate understanding of how relationships actually function.

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💠 Why TIRM Is Different

Most therapy treats conflict as the problem.
TIRM treats conflict as information.

Conflict shows the couple’s:
• nervous system states
• early attachment patterns
• maladaptive attractor dynamics

✨ Conflict isn’t failure — it’s a system trying to reorganise.
✨ Repair is biology — not a communication skill.
✨ The relationship itself becomes the therapy.

This is the future of treating relational trauma:
work with the system, not against it.

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🧠 The Science Behind TIRM

TIRM integrates:

• Affect Regulation Theory — partners regulate each other’s emotional states
• Systems Biology & Attractors — conflict reveals system organisation
• Object Relations — internal templates reorganise through live corrective experience
• DPP — biology, emotion, identity & behaviour unified into one model

Your relationship is seen as a living adaptive system capable of coherence, repair, and transformation.

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💞 What Couples Learn in TIRM

• Map nervous system interactions
• See reenactment cycles without blame
• Build emotional capacity and regulation
• Shift out of rigid or chaotic attractor states
• Strengthen synchrony, repair, and co-regulation
• Restore polarity, connection, and direction
• Turn conflict into intimacy and integration

This isn’t conflict management.
It’s relational reorganisation.

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🌿 A Relationship That Heals You

TIRM turns your relationship into a regulatory ecosystem:
a space where trauma patterns are understood, safety returns, and new relational behaviours emerge naturally through synchrony and repair.

This is how relational trauma actually heals.

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📩 Book a TIRM Consultation

🌍 thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📧 darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698

26/11/2025

Advanced Diploma in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP)
12 months · Online · €4,500

The most comprehensive trauma-informed training — a next-generation systems model for understanding and treating complex trauma.

🔗 Programme: https://www.thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com/courses/advanced-diploma-in-trauma-studies-2/
📧 Darren@thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com
📱 WhatsApp: +353 89 229 3698
🌐 thetraumarecoveryinstitute.com

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Most trainings teach techniques.
This one rewires how you understand the human system.

DPP integrates biology, psychology, metabolic science, affect regulation & relational theory into one coherent trauma model.

Grounded in 8 core pillars:
Polyvagal Theory · Affect Regulation · Cell Danger Response · Interpersonal Neurobiology · Homeodynamic Space Theory · Lifestyle Medicine · Systems Biology · Object Relations

Clients are reframed as complex adaptive systems shaped by metabolic threat, dysregulated affect, attractor states, relational dynamics & cellular defence physiology.

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What You’ll Learn
Systems biology · Affect regulation · Metabolic threat mapping · Relational neuroscience · Object relations · Lifestyle medicine · Somatic work · Narrative & identity reconstruction.

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Includes TiRM Couples Therapy
Dyadic attractor fields · Conflict energetics · Co-dysregulation loops · Relational phase transitions.

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Who Enrols?
Psychotherapists · Psychologists · Psychiatrists · Counsellors · Social Workers · Somatic Practitioners · Allied Health professionals.

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Certification
Advanced Diploma in Trauma Studies (DPP), certifying mastery in a leading systems-level model of trauma treatment.

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If you’re ready to move beyond linear models and understand trauma as a living dynamic system — this is the training.

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