The IHC Model
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The Internal Healing & Collaboration model is an approach to healing for survivors of significant sadistic sexual abuse that helps the healing process and journey move from internally chaotic to collaborative-and-controlled, by means of integrating sound spiritual understanding of theology and scriptural principles, with sound, well-established, and clinically-recognized theory, principles, and practices.
The need for such a new model stems from the need to provide Survivors with a solid and trustworthy framework by which they can successfully progress through the stages of healing from their trauma, into a state of wholeness and positive adjustment.
The “help” being offered to Survivors today has either left them feeling stuck, discouraged, or unable to find the sense of forward movement in their healing journey in ways that is helping them see measurable progress, especially when it comes to them experiencing joy and happiness.
IHC offers that help.
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​Correcting Flawed Notions for Survivors of Significant Sexual Abuse
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The solution is NOT Deliverance for Survivors who are Christians.
Healing from the trauma for the horrific harm that was perpetrated upon the Survivor is what is needed.
Survivors are offered dangerously flawed illusions of a “Quick fix” and instant relief, which will fill them with false hope, but leave them confused & discouraged, set them up for feeling as though they “didn’t get it right”, they missed something, they still have open doors, “Spiritual legal contracts”, generational curses still acting upon them or still attached to them, still have open doors to outside spiritual influences or demonic habitation & control, or that somehow internal demonic “co-habitation” is the internal state of affairs, where demons can be on the inside remaining after salvation and causing issues.
This flawed notion of a Survivor who is a Christian being in need of “deliverance” is not only deeply theologically flawed, but horribly destructive and shame-producing.
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The Goal is NOT Integration for Survivors
The goal of therapy is collaboration on the inside, which comes form getting the parts to cooperate together in a meaningful way, toward a common purpose.
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Collaboration creates a sense of teamwork on the inside, which allows the internal world to experience a sense of harmony, peace and rest.
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Peace & Rest will result in a decrease in:
*Trauma-related hyperarousal & emotional reactivity
*internal confusion & conflict
*dissociation
*a feeling of a sense of foreboding
*nightmares
*hopelessness
*suicidal thoughts
*self-injurious behaviors
*self-anesthetizing
*unwanted repetitive behavioral
*forgetfulness
*distractability
*irritability
*obsessive and compulsive characteristics and behaviors
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Peace & Rest will result in an increase in:
*Productive daily functioning
*A Sense of internal control
*Interpersonal relationship skills
*Optimism about the future
*Being fully emotionally present in the moment
*A Sense of optimism about the future
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The Goal for Survivors is Internal peace & rest. That does not come from a flawed notion that the end-result of the healing process will be “me being normal like everyone else.” Who sold you on that idea? After all, what is "normal"?
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No, the goal is being the best version of your own authentic self that God created you to be, being high functioning, being able to have meaningful relationships, to be helpful and useful to others in genuine need, being satisfied with how you are progressing toward your goals, and being able to find satisfaction in what you are doing, which stems from a sense of purpose. That will be realized to the extent you have: inner harmony and collaboration, which will produce forward movement toward your goals, the ability to be more controlled (both on the inside and outside), that you can be fully present wherever you are, and that you experience genuine internal peace and rest.
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For Survivors with trauma-related compartmentalized parts, a flawed notion has been pushed regarding what the goal of healing should be. They have been told that the goal is to have just “one personality”, or just one part. And, that leaves the survivor with the belief that they are abnormal, thus, must strive toward being ‘normal,” which means having just one part, “since normal people only have one personality.” But, that line of reasoning from well-meaning therapists overlooks the reality that every single person has multiple aspects of their personality (one of which quickly emerges when their favorite pet enters the room). The Survivor is told that that only one part can remain for therapy to have been “successful.” Thus, the Survivor is placed in a position of having to select which parts must depart. Sadly, all the work in getting to know the parts simply ends in the parts once again being relegated to silence, with a sense that they are not welcomed or are not wanted or needed, and must be relegated to a place a silence once again.
The flawed premise of integration not only will leave the Survivor in an emotionally stuck place, as the process of normal healing from trauma cannot happen, but causes even greater internal confusion, separation, and conflict than before. And, it will leave the Survivor without access to all of their internal strength, their talents & abilities, and with a lost sense of self, as they have been left with the sense that they had to say goodbye to parts of themselves in order to be whole, which is the exact opposite of what will bring them inner healing.