We are happy to announce the formation of two TSI International Training Groups in Experiential Trauma Therapy using the Therapeutic Spiral Model to treat trauma. Please join us as we start our new cohorts in Zagreb, Croatia in December, 2019, and...
Therapeutic Spiral International
TSM Certification Standards Revisions
I am delighted to announce that Kate and I have finally completed the revisions to the TSM Certification Standards and Procedures. Most of the changes are more structural than actual added requirements, however there are a few additions. Now that...
The Trauma Therapist Podcast
Dr. Kate Hudgins shares about how "Courage Is The Fear That Has Said Its Prayers", the start of TSM and teaches some Master Classes on Guy McPherson’s great program "The Trauma Therapist". https://lnkd.in/eiawMrE
Andrea C Hummel: “Differences are conversations waiting to happen; Talk to the “other side,” because it’s harder to hate up-close”
TSM psychodrama is used in many varied contexts and situations. This article is about a TSM-psychodrama theory certified practitioner and her applications in communities. Differences are conversations waiting to happen. Talk to the “other...
Experiential Addiction Treatment: Creating Positive Connection through Sociometry and Therapeutic Spiral Model Safety Structures
Journal of Addiction and Addictive Disorders Scott Giacomuccia*; Sharon Gerab; Darrell Briggsc; & Kim Bassd abcdMirmont Treatment Center, Lima, PA, USA *Contact Scott Giacomucci at Scott@SGiacomucci.com for any correspondence related to this...
Building Resilience in Youth with Therapeutic Spiral Model™ (TSM) Psychodrama
By Mario Cossa, RDT/MT, TEP Norman Garmezy, Ph.D., a Developmental Psychologist from the University of Minnesota, is generally credited with the seminal research on resilience and attempts to define what are now called protective factors—those...
Circle of Values
By Mario Cossa, RDT/MT, TEP This article provides an overview of the first two years of a project using action methods in an educational setting in Indonesia. It was conducted at Campuhan College, in the village of Ubud on the Island of Bali....
Posttraumatic Growth
There can be positive change after adversity. By Adena Bank Lees, LCSW For those who have experienced trauma, it is common to feel like life will never be the same again. As evidenced by a growing body of research, though, humans have the ability...
Spectrograms in India: Increasing Cultural Competency through the Third TSM Psychodrama Safety Structure
by Steven Durost, PhD, AL Scarves on the floor and saris wrapped around participants. 96 degree heat drying sweat as it comes of the body and fans providing more noise than relief. This day is the fourth day of a seven day stretch of TSI...
Upcoming Training Series
Hello All you Lovely Psychodramatists. Dr. Kate has asked me to write a blurb about the TSM training I have been offering in Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA over the past three years. It started off as something organic and has evolved into four modules,...
Updates to trainers and team before Kate returns to Asia Feb 18-March 16.
I think most of you know that Mario is now the Co-Director of TSI with me. It feels good to have someone in that role again since Francesca retired. But I really feel her presence these days as I connect more with some of the trainers on our...
Traveling as Spontaneity Training: If you want to become a Psychodramatist, Travel the world!
By Scott Giacomucci, MSS, LSW, CTTS, CET III Abstract The experience of traveling has the power to provide us with rich experiential learning experiences and a deeper understanding of psychodrama theory. I offer this article as an personal...







