Ongoing Development: Julie Stirpe’s NMT phase 1 accreditation

Those of you who read our blog last month about her visit to the international symposium will be aware that Principal Psychotherapist Julie Stirpe is an active member of the ChildTrauma Academy (CTA). The CTA is a professional body and academic fellowship pioneering the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT). NMT, as an approach to psychotherapy, is defined by its use of neurological techniques to assess how the impact of trauma on the brain can affect relational health and cognition in childhood, through to later life.

Julie has been working for several months to become officially certified as an individual NMT practitioner and has recently been accredited by the CTA as having completed phase 1 of the training. This qualification means that she is now licensed to use the NMT approach in her clinical psychotherapeutic work as part of evidence-based practice using a trauma-informed model.

With greater ambitions ahead, Julie has immediately embarked on acquiring the phase 2 certificate. Upon completion, she will be qualified to train others in their own NMT accreditations. Our eventual goal for the coming years is for JSA psychology to become an NMT site, an accreditation for the organisation itself as a prospective partner of the CTA. Only a handful of such sites currently exist in the UK, although there are many more international partners.

The value of NMT in our psychotherapeutic practice at JSA is far reaching, particularly in the assessment of children in the care system and for pre and post adoption. Not a form of therapy itself, the NMT allows us to assess the impact of developmental trauma upon the developing brain and nervous system of our clients.

Julie Stirpe is proud to lead JSA psychotherapy ahead of the curve, to the forefront of international trauma informed research and evidence-based practice which we are sure will shape the future of the industry. It is an exciting time for us as an organisation to be bringing these new tools to our partners and clients alike.

For more information on the nature of NMT, please follow this link.