Healing Our Core Issues Institute
Training counseling professionals to work with developmental childhood trauma. Offering valuable, actionable healing solutions for individuals.
Healing Your Core Issues: An Introduction
Simply put, our model can change how you look at the world and live your life.
Inspired by the pioneering childhood trauma work of Pia Mellody, we founded the Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI) Institute with a mission to teach lay people an effective, intuitive methodology for addressing their childhood trauma. Through a carefully selected blend of mindfulness, attachment theory, somatic (body-based) therapy, our model engages the tools within, allowing you to realize your fully functional Self.
The lessons held within this 90-minute session are valuable for every kind of student – all are welcome. Begin your self-directed healing journey today.
Over the course of this 90-minute lesson, experienced individual and couples therapist, Dr. Rick Butts, Ed D, LPCC-S, will lead you through the fundamental components of a healthy adult life. Beginning with HOCI Overview Chart, you will learn the qualities that define the true birthrights of a child. Next, you will see how the child experiences functional and dysfunctional upbringings, where a family system either welcomes and nurtures or stifles and disrespects a child's true nature. Ultimately, you will learn to recognize how a dysfunctional upbringing leads to developmental immaturity that can hinder the pursuit of a healthy, balanced adult life.
Deepen your relationship with yourself. Take a pivotal step in your journey towards your most fulfilling life.
$49 | 90 Minutes | Healing Your Core Issues: An Introduction
Applying the 5 Core Practices for Healthy Living
What tools do we need to live a healthy life?
Meet the 5 Core Practices, a series of intentional behaviors that will allow you to nurture a strong, balanced relationship with yourself and with those around you. Informed by the 5 Core Areas for Healing (© Pia Mellody, The Meadows), these practices address your ability to love yourself, to protect yourself, to maintain healthy boundaries, to know yourself, to take care of your needs and wants, and to create balance in your life.
It's time to put them into practice! In this short, 30-minute session, we will take you through the actionable steps that will enable you to strengthen your self-esteem, your ownership over your reality, your self-care, the boundaries that you set with others, and those limits that you set on yourself.
Through a combination of videos, selections from Gifts from a Challenging Childhood by Jan Bergstrom, LMHC, and downloadable workbook assignments, you will learn methods to help you recognize and sharpen your inner toolkit, beginning – or deepening – your self-directed healing journey.
Like our introductory lesson, this course holds valuable information for students of all kinds. The keys to a life of peace, self-acceptance, and strength are all found within ourselves. Learn how the 5 Core Practices can allow you to take control of your reality and see yourself in a new light. Start healing today.
$29 | 30 Minutes | Applying the 5 Core Practices for Healthy Living
HOCI Community Membership Circle - Professionals Only Site
Our membership site is designed to deepen and expand your understanding and knowledge of the Healing Our Core Issues Model. (HOCI)
This membership community is for those of you wanting to learn or already using the HOCI Model in your therapy practice and who want more knowledge, ongoing applications, case studies, increase nuanced skill level and an active sharing community. Your membership benefits include:
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Monthly workshop the 4th Wednesday of every month at 12 noon EST until 1pm EST on a specific topic via Zoom for an hour
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Up to date resources and hand-outs not available anywhere else
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New video clips using the HOCI model that teach advanced and nuanced skills
- Audio recordings of the HOCI Overview Chart
- Audio recordings of the 6 Core Practices and Functional Self
We feature video recordings of specific topics that expand your abilities as a professional. You will see more progress quicker and experience more satisfaction with your sessions. You will reach a new level of clinical mastery. Welcome to our community!
$12.95 Monthly I HOCI Community Membership Circle
Healing Your Core Issues Part 2 - NEW!
It is true, using the six core practices will change your life.
The Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI) Institute was founded with a mission to teach lay people an effective, intuitive methodology for addressing their childhood trauma. Through a carefully selected blend of core issues work informed by Pia Mellody, mindfulness, attachment theory, somatic (body-based) therapy, the HOCI model engages the tools within, allowing you to realize your fully healthiest Self.
Over the course of this online learning module, experienced individual and couples therapists Jan Bergstrom, LMHC and Dr. Rick Butts, LPCC-S will discuss the fundamental components of a healthy adult life. The lessons held within this 2 hour course are valuable for every kind of student – all are welcome. Begin your self-directed healing journey today.
Beginning with new HOCI Overview Chart, you will learn the qualities that define the true birthrights of a child. Next, you will see how the child experiences functional and dysfunctional upbringings, where a family system either welcomes and nurtures or stifles and disrespects a child's true nature. Ultimately, you will learn to practice the 6 core practices that aid in the healing process of loving yourself, protecting yourself, knowing yourself, taking care of yourself, balancing yourself and finally connecting yourself to others interdependently.
Heal your relationship with yourself. Take this essential step in your journey towards your most healthiest self.
$59 | 2 hours |Healing Your Core Issues Part 2
Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment: In Action Series #2
This course is designed to provide working counseling professionals with a demonstration of the experiential processes for addressing trauma.
Watch how these practices can be applied, in this set of three, hour-long sessions, you will watch as a Michelle works through each process.
Each video is accompanied by a written summary detailing best practices for preparing clients for the processes, as well as notes on therapist-client interactions during and after each process. A list of necessary skills, and a list of helpful terminology are also included.
We encourage you to download the written materials and use them in your practice moving forward.
$89 | 3 Hours | Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment: In Action | DART Series 2
For professionals only.
Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment: Introducing the 3 Major Processes Series #1
This course is designed to introduce working counseling professionals to the major DART experiential processes.
During this five-hour introductory course, you will become familiar with the three major processes of DART treatment: Getting Your Story Straight, Re-Parenting Your Historical Selves, and Standing in Your Truth. You will watch Kristy in three, hour-long client case videos, supplemented by in-depth narration on procedures, while following along with custom worksheets and glossaries.
In addition, you will have access to written summaries outlining best practices for moving through each step of this challenging, vulnerable, impactful journey. We encourage you to download the written materials and use them in your practice moving forward.
$159 | 5 Hour Course| Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment: Introducing the 3 Major Processes | DART Series 1
For Professional Only.
Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment Updated - Series #3
This course is designed to introduce working counseling professionals to the major DART experiential processes.
During this six-hour updated course, you will become familiar with the three major processes of DART treatment: Getting Your Story Straight, Re-Parenting Your Historical Selves, and Standing in Your Truth. You will watch five, hour-long client case videos, while following along with custom worksheets and glossaries. The extra bonus is a group debriefing of the client and facilitator about their behind the scenes experiences and the impact of working with each process.
In addition, you will have access to written summaries outlining best practices for moving through each step of this challenging, vulnerable, impactful journey. We encourage you to download the written materials and use them in your practice moving forward.
$189 | 6 Hour Course| Developmental and Relational Trauma Treatment Updated - DART Series 3
For Professional Only.