Integrated Trauma Therapy

22/10/2026

An image, colour, texture or mark can sometimes make room for something that is difficult to organise immediately into words.

As Tania describes it:

“Art therapy can meet the impulse that is emerging from the client that may have been inhibited.”
~ Tania Virgona

In Art Therapy, the important part is not producing a finished artwork. Attention can be given to the experience of choosing materials, noticing sensation, approaching or moving away, changing something, making a boundary, or simply seeing what emerges.

For children and young people, creative work can offer a developmentally appropriate way to communicate. For adults, it can open another route into reflection when talking alone feels limited or overworked.

The pace matters. The materials are an invitation, not a demand.

Learn more about Art Therapy at ITT:
https://integratedtraumatherapy.com.au/for-individuals/art-therapy-for-trauma-processing-mental-health-and-wellbeing/

22/10/2026

I’m considering a closed-group format for Arts-Based Online Group Supervision in 2027, and I’m gathering expressions of interest.

The proposed format is a group of 4–8 practitioners meeting bi-monthly. The sessions would continue to make room for case consultation, creative reflection and the questions emerging from the group.

I’m interested in the continuity a closed group could offer across the year. Dates are proposed, and a Friday group is also being considered.

If this format interests you, please email [email protected]

~ Tania Virgona

21/10/2026

Since our September SEP Touch Retreat, I have been reflecting on the value of practitioners having spaces where we can receive, practise and notice, not only keep giving.

There is something different about learning through the body and in relationship with other practitioners. We can slow down enough to notice the small things: where contact feels clear, where we brace, where support is available, and what changes when there is time to stay curious rather than rush to an outcome.

A client reflection on receiving touch work captures another part of why this embodied attention can matter:

“Receiving Touch work has helped me feel myself, how I have been somatically holding and living in the brace.”
- Client

For me, days like this are also a reminder that professional development can be about more than adding knowledge. It can be about replenishing the conditions that help us remain present in the work.

I’m grateful for the shared practice and the care people brought into the room.

~ Tania

18/10/2026

For a referrer, the question is often not only “Could this person benefit from therapy?” but also “What kind of entry point might help them engage?”

Some people are comfortable beginning with conversation. Others may connect more readily through body-based work, creative expression, play, movement or a combination of approaches.

ITT provides individual therapy for adults, young people, children and families, with practitioners working across Somatic Experiencing®, Art Therapy, counselling, play-based somatic work, Yoga Therapy and related approaches.

If you are a practitioner, school professional, allied-health provider or family member considering a referral, you are welcome to explore the team and contact ITT to discuss the most appropriate pathway.

Individual therapy:
https://integratedtraumatherapy.com.au/for-individuals/

15/10/2026

One of the things I value about working integratively is that the person does not have to fit the modality.

There may be times when conversation is useful, and other times when the body, movement, image-making, breath, touch or simply being quietly accompanied gives us more information.

For me, integration means staying responsive to what is actually present. We can notice what brings more contact, what creates too much activation, what supports curiosity and what helps someone find a little more choice.

The aim is not to collect techniques. It is to let different approaches support one another in service of the person and the pace of the work.

~ Tania

You can explore the range of individual therapy approaches available through ITT here:
https://integratedtraumatherapy.com.au/for-individuals/

15/10/2026

Reflective supervision does not always need to begin with finding the “right” answer.

Arts-based reflection can create another way of staying with a clinical question, through image, colour, mark-making and curiosity about what may be difficult to organise immediately into language.

ITT’s Arts-Based Online Group Supervision provides a structured space for practitioners to bring client work into reflective conversation, with arts-based, Somatic Experiencing® and Polyvagal-informed perspectives able to sit alongside the discussion.

Friday 30 October 2026
4:30–6:30 pm
Online
Bookings close Thursday 29 October

Learn more and book:
https://integratedtraumatherapy.com.au/product/online-client-presentation-art-therapy-group-supervision/

14/10/2026

The Hybrid Immersive Tao of Trauma is coming to Australia in 2027.

This experiential programme is designed for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy and Bodywork who want to deepen their understanding of trauma and expand the way they support the nervous system through touch, presence and embodied awareness.

The immersion brings together ancient Taoist principles, somatic awareness, nervous-system regulation and hands-on therapeutic practice.

Across a hybrid format, online and in person, practitioners will have opportunities to explore:

• working with trauma safely and sensitively
• attunement to subtle bodily signals
• integrating trauma-informed principles into hands-on practice
• the relationship between the nervous system, breath, movement, energy and touch
• greater presence and embodiment in clinical work

It is an invitation to listen more deeply to the intelligence of the whole body.

Explore the current Australian programme information:
https://integratedtraumatherapy.com.au/hybrid-immersive-tao-of-trauma-series-2027/

12/10/2026