Basic Roles, Structures and Functions of a CTP
Therapy Program Coordinator:
Is appointed by II to conduct the therapy meetings, assign daily therapy teams, coordinate adjunctive therapies, supervise all aspects and assure the quality and integregity of the CTP.
Primary Therapists:
Are advanced practioners of CST with previous experience in a CTP.
They integrate thier individual talents and skills with CST for this client centered therapy.
They lead and coordinate the daily therapy sessions with the team of support and adjunctive therapist. Mentor support therapists.
Are responsible for charting the sessions, and essential communications related to the client.
Create and maintain a safe and efficient therapeutic space for the client and the therapy team each day.
Support Therapists:
Have aquired skills taught in the Upledger curriculum.
Each support therapist brings their unique personality, skills, and intentions for healing.
They are accomplished therapists in various fields or modalities of health care which blend into this integrated client centered program.
Adjunctive Therapists:
Meet all of the requirements of a Primary Therapist.
Are approved by II and the Therapy Team Facilitator
Have demonstrated proficiency in thier respective field of expertise.
Bring a specific complimentary modality to the program.
Integrates their therapy with the Principles & Practice and foundation of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy & SomatoEmotional Release.
The adjunctive therapies are incorporated as an integral aspect of the program.
Ongoing Therapist:
If you are a CranioSacral Therapist referring a client to a CTP, we invite you to accompany the client and participate in the program as their ongoing therapist. Your history, role and participation will be respected in our team approach.
It is our hope to bring together all the talents of the therapists for the betterment of the client. The client provides the focal point for the various modalities and how they function, are experienced, perceived and understood.
The integrity of the program is based in the integrity of each of us and our ability to work together. This program is client centered and focused. It is focused on their experience, needs, perceptions, hopes, dreams, etc.
We are working with and within their lives facilitating their healing process, as ultimately or finally determined by their inner wisdom.
The initial therapist meeting held the evening prior to the client program requires the attendance of all therapists. It covers introductions so that we may become acquainted with each other, our backgrounds, therapeutic modalities and intentions.
It also includes information about housekeeping, accommodations, daily schedule, therapeutic roles, basic principles, the initial presentation of client information and open time for questions, concerns and comments.
Each morning we will meet as a complete team with the clients. The Therapy Program Cooridnator will conduct this meeting, which is client focused. The first day, please keep your personal introduction to the clients brief; name, therapeutic background, designated modalities you will be providing in the program. This is time for us to listen to the clients. In general, our intention is to be open and accepting of the client.
Subsequent morning meetings after a day of therapy:
Provide time and space for the client to let us know what they are experiencing, to ask questions, make requests, etc. Questions and feedback by the primary therapist from the previous day’s treatment. of the client will be moderated by the Therapy Team Coordinator. Note: let us take more time listening to the client than commenting about them.
Questions may help support them in their process. At times it may be helpful to describe our intentions in the therapeutic process, i.e. melding, accessing their body wisdom, following their process, checking their significance detector. Please refrain from giving advice and explanations of their therapy.
Therapeutic boundries and respect for client is required. Since we will likely be with the clients during meals and have frequent interactions with them outside the designated therapeutic sessions, it is important that we do not initiate the client in therapeutic activities on their own time and that we realize our personal interactions with them may likely be perceived as part of the program. We may effect their attitudes and relationship to the therapeutic process. For example, if they seek advice and feedback outside the therapeutic program, please ask them to bring their questions to group discussion or reserve them for their next therapeutic session.
After the day’s treatment primary therapists will meet with thier support therapists. They will review the sessions and charting. Dynamics of the treatment group can also be reviewed and addressed. (The primary therapist needs to decide what is important to bring to the meeting.) This is a time to review the day.
The therapy day ends with a therapy community meeting. The primary therapist from each treatment group will relay to the therapeutic community the most significant aspects of the day’s therapy. (Any therapists who are accompanying a client need to be kept informed and primarily engaged in the process.) We are all here to share and learn, and we are providing the opportunity for the support therapists to ask questions and receive additional support from the team as a whole, for their efforts. Note: We ask all to be as clear and concise as possible, as our time is limited. We ask that issues, observation and your compelling perceptions and experience be brought to the group and team meetings.
Each therapy community meeting includes time for each member to comment or bring up anything that needs to be expressed, acknowledged or addressed so that we may continue to work well together. Personal issues between individual participtants need to addressed outside this large meeting. The essence of this therapy is the therapy itself, not what we have to say about it later. These meetings are designed to help us more richly engage the client centered therapeutic process.
After our meeting you are free to do as you please. The therapy room is usually available as a space to interact with one another, treat one another, share skills or just hang out.
On the last day, we will end with a closure meeting from 3:30pm to 4:30pm for therapists and clients.
It is important that all therapists are present for each full day.
Essential Information for All Therapists
It is important that you are aware and accepting of Integrative Intentions' Mission and Intentenions.
We hold the work of Dr. John Upledger in high regard.
Our CTPs have origins in the "multi-hands" therapy developed by Dr. Upledger and the UI Intensive Therapy Programs. These CTP's are affiliated with UII.
All of our therapists have received their CST education from the Upledger Institute.
We all share basic principles and practice, implicitly and explicitly developed by Dr. John Upledger, taught through the Upledger Institute and embodied by CST therapists. And we are in harmony with the Credo and Goals of UII:
Our shared basis in CST keep us grounded in the science of life, with a central focus on the CranioSacral system, and the inherent intelligence or "Inner Physician" that guides our therapeutic facilitation.
We relate to the CranioSacral System as a core structure with functions essential in the integrated health of the individual, body-soul-mind-spirit. We find Upledger CranioSacral Therapy to be an integrative therapy that addresses this core and coordinates other therapies.
This common basis in Upledger CST is essential in bringing and holding our community together in an inspired integration of intentions for healing in these client centered programs.
Support therapists are an integral aspect of these programs, who provide a service and are part of a shared learning experience. As a support therapist, you will be able to work with many other talented and gifted therapists, facilitating the healing of a spectrum of clients. It is amazing how much we all learn from one another! There will be guidance for support therapists, as well as optional evening time to spend with other therapists, sharing treatments and skills, having personal r&r time, and enjoying the unique opportunities provided by the specific facility and location of the CTP, and the attending community of therapists.
To Become a Support Therapist
Joining a CTP is an amazing accelerated learning experience in which you get to develop your multi-hands CST skills as well as receive 37 continuing education units. These programs also fullfill requirements for preceptorship towards Upledger CST Diplomate Certification.
To be accepted as a Support Therapist, you are required to:
have completed a minimum of SERI with the Upledger Institute.
be cognisant of the basic principles and practice of Upledger CST and SER.
have the capacity to remain neutral in the therapy program.
be willing and able to participate fully as an essential element of the therapy team within this client centered CTP.
accept mentoring from Advanced CST therapists.
In 2014 we initiated a CTP Therapist Mentoring Program, which is offered to new support therapists and is optional for returning or continuing support therapists.
Integrative Intentions is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as a continuing education Approved Provider.
To Refer or Register a Client
Call AIHE 1 800 233 5880
For more information please review the Client Information on this site.
If you have unanswered questions, please contact II.
If you are a UI CranioSacral therapist, or a therapist from another field, and wish to accompany your client to an CTP, you are welcome to attend. Your role in the client's therapeutic process will be supported and respected. You may be included in sessions and the therapy program meetings as is appropriate for your client.
Requirements For Primary Therapists in an ITP:
Completion of Advanced I in the Upledger CranioSacral Therapy Curriculum.
Have completed at least one adjunctive UI course. (i.e. TBS, IR, SICS, SI, CSRP, TIDI, CAAD)
Upledger CST Techniques Certification or at least in process of attaining certification.
Participation in at least 1 prior CTP as a Support Therapist
Demonstrate the ability to mentor support therapists and facilitate thier contributions to the ITP
Demonstrate the ability to create and maintain a safe and efficient therapeutic space for the client and the therapy team.
Open to ongoing Peer Assesment, Review and Support.
Requirements For Support Therapist in a CTP:
Have completed a minimum of SERI with the Upledger Institute.
Be cognisant of the basic principles and practice of Upledger CST and SER.
Have the capacity to remain neutral in the therapy sessions.
Are willing and able to participate fully as an essential element of the therapy team within this client centered CTP.
Receive feedback from Advanced CST Therapists.
In 2014 we initiated a CTP Therapist Mentoring Program, which is required for new support therapists and optional for returning or any ongoing support therapists.
Requirements For Adjunctive Therapist in a CTP:
Adjunctive Therapists must meet all requirements for Primary Therapists
Demonstrate proficiency in their respective field of expertise.
Adjunctive Therapy is a designated therapy that integrates with the principles & practice and foundation of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy & SomatoEmotional Release.
All Therapists Must Register for the CTP Call
International Alliance of Healthcare Educators (IAHE)
1 800 233-5880
You will recieve confirmation upon registration and a letter prior to the CTP with more specific information.
Guidelines for being paid as a Primary Therapist:
Primary Therapists are paid for performing as a primary therapist on a daily basis if they have brought a client and also meet all of the above requirements for being a Primry Therapist.
Primary Therapists are therapists who:
1. Accompany one or more clients to a CTP
2. Meet all the requirements to perform as a Primary Therapist, as listed above.
3. Perform each day of the CTP as a Primary Therapist, and fulfill the duties of a primary therapist as set forth above.
If a Primary Therapist chooses to be a client for a day or chooses to be absent for any days or chooses not to or cannot fulfill the duties as a primary for of any days of the CTP, you will not be paid for those days, as you will not have performed as a therapist for those days. If you chose to be a client for a day or more, and there is availability, you will pay the special therapist rate to be a client for those days.