Empowered Through Compassion The Art of Healing Trauma with Coherence Therapy
Nov 17, 2025
Tori Olds, a psychologist specializing in Coherence Therapy, shares her insights on healing trauma through emotional understanding and memory reconsolidation. She emphasizes the power of slowing down to uncover implicit emotional truths, illustrating how symptoms reflect deeper learnings from our past. Tori explores the integration of models like Internal Family Systems and the importance of connecting body awareness with emotional healing. Her work encourages a compassionate approach to understanding our inner narratives and transforming emotional patterns.
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Early Immersion In Experiential Therapy
- Tori Olds grew up with therapist parents and was immersed in experiential group therapy from adolescence.
- She ran emotion-focused sessions in college and began formal experiential training soon after.
Coherence As An Integrative Framework
- Coherence Therapy is a framework for integrating experiential models around memory reconsolidation.
- The model prioritizes three transformation-aligned steps over any single technique.
Memory Reconsolidation Drives Deep Change
- Memory reconsolidation is the brain process that underlies deep therapeutic change by updating learned predictions.
- Highly emotional learnings can resist updating unless conditions for reconsolidation are created.
