Psychotherapy and QTR: A New Frontier

I am a psychotherapist trained in the psychodynamic tradition and have been working for fifteen years with children and adolescents in the field of family foster care; over time my clinical practice has been enriched by cognitive-behavioural and systemic tools.

As a clinician, I believe that a multidimensional approach is the cornerstone of effective support for children and families in developing awareness and correcting dysfunctional behaviours. Collaboration with educators, teachers and practitioners is essential to build around the patient a network of interventions capable of sustaining their development and providing genuine impetus to the process of change.

My encounter with the QTR technique marked the beginning of a further stage of professional development, deepening my understanding of the individual's deeper dynamics and bringing the psychological work of change to a far more radical cellular and operational level.

The technique developed by Dr Ileana Rotella enables the immediate release from the unconscious of thought-forms and emotions deeply rooted at the psychic and biological level, freeing trapped energy and allowing consciousness to expand towards an understanding of one's own life direction, guiding the individual towards profound and simplified change.

Furthermore, the technique helps the patient to understand, rapidly and permanently, the changes required to feel better, building new and more functional neural and consciousness pathways.

Since meeting Dr Rotella in 2021 and beginning to study her technique intensively, I have experienced in myself a mental, emotional and behavioural change that I would describe as visible, deep and extraordinarily concrete.

In my clinical practice I therefore began incorporating the technique as each patient's process of self-awareness grows and calls for acceleration or immediate problem-solving; today it constitutes an essential tool within the psychotherapeutic journey.

The fundamental difference between a conventional course of psychotherapy and an integrated QTR-psychotherapy programme lies in the possibility of processing traumatic emotions immediately, allowing the patient to feel at once the effects of a liberation from years of compulsive repetition and toxic cycles. The patient becomes more self-aware, gains a clearer sense of the direction in which they wish to move, and is able to take deliberate, purposeful actions that lead to genuine change in their learnt cognitive-behavioural patterns.

In forthcoming articles I shall have the pleasure of presenting other significant aspects of this combination of techniques, and their relevance to the wellbeing of those treated.

Dr Giada Sargentoni, psychologist, psychotherapist, PhD