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Compassionate Inquiry

“Bringing compassion, healing, freedom and connection to humanity.” - Dr. Gabor Maté

Find the root of your trauma

Compassionate Inquiry (CI) is a powerful tool that can bring a person’s awareness compassionately to events that occurred in childhood that were painful and difficult to bear, and that the person has protected themselves from experiencing. Compassionate Inquiry sessions have been used for physical and emotional healing in a wide range of areas: trauma, physical disease processes, chronic pain, emotional and mental disturbances, addictions, PTSD, relationship problems, reoccurring problematic patterns, and lack of understanding of why life is not working out the way we want. In short Compassionate Inquiry is helping people to be liberated from experiences and the resulting underlying beliefs with life changing growth and healing.

What Is Compassionate Inquiry?

Compassionate Inquiry is a talk therapy approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance of what we want the world to see. The Compassionate Inquiry approach uses carefully crafted questions by the therapist to gently guide people compassionately into their bodies to feel what the body remembers from the experiences of their childhood. This reconnection to their bodies helps reveal the truth of how people feel, not what the mind remembers and the resulting beliefs they have unconsciously been living throughout their lives. Through Compassionate Inquiry, the client can meet with this unconscious information with acceptance and compassion rather than judgement. This is the basis of the healing from trauma – to reconnect lovingly with ourselves. Compassionate Inquiry helps move from surviving to thriving.

Benefits Of Compassionate Inquiry

Relationships

Positive changes in relationship to oneself and relationship with others

Enhances benefits

This therapy is a brilliant adjunct to whatever therapies you are currently using, and it enhances the benefits of those other therapies.

Body and mind

Healing the body and mind through acceptance of retained stress and trauma.

Reconnection

To yourself, your values, your feelings, your body, other people, and the world, in the present moment

Freedom

Freedom from limiting unconscious beliefs and the world we created from those beliefs

Thriving skills

Liberation from skills of survival; rejoining the world by thriving.

“Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.”

Dr. Gabor Maté

What Our Clients Say

V. Costa, Germany

"Compassionate Inquiry, in particular with Terri, heals your body, mind, and soul. The moment I started doing Compassionate Inquiry work with Terri, I started to see light and the possibility to heal; it revolutionized my life.

I am 34 years old, and I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus in January 2020. Prior to that I had various symptoms for 14 years, living with strong Raynaud’s Syndrome, stomach issues, no monthly menstruation, Celiac, enlarged liver, skin rashes on my body and face, and the most prominent problems were my daily joint pains and very strong inflammations of my hands. My hands were in so much pain, that often I was unable to use them at all. I was desperate mentally and physically. I was scared. I was sad.

Now I am in 100 % remission. I have done Compassionate Inquiry sessions with Terri for the past year and a daily practice of yoga to get where I am now. Blood work results show that all my diagnoses are in remission since September 2021. I have never felt so strong and healthy in my life as I do today."

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FAQ

Caution: While you could undergo a short detox other common side effects may include greater health, happiness, and joy, including improved circulation, reduced pain, improved physical performance and cognitive ability. You may feel younger, experience improvement in your ability to relax, sleep, handle stress, think clearly, learn more easily, as well as to appreciate more and to love more deeply. You may feel better physically and emotionally, feel more alive, more creative, more whole, with an overall sense of greater well-being. This, by all measures, is not a complete list of the possible effects. If you experience any or all of these, please inform your family and friends immediately.