Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) in Stratford & Online Across Ontario

Release Painful Emotions Without Reliving the Trauma

If you’ve experienced trauma, loss, or emotional overwhelm that still lives in your body or mind, it can feel like you’re carrying the past with you—everywhere.
But what if healing didn’t require re-experiencing the pain?

Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) offers a gentle but powerful approach to release trauma, anxiety, grief, and stuck emotional pain—without reliving the original experience.

What is Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT)?

ImTT is a trauma-resolution technique that uses breathwork, visualization, and guided imagery to help release painful emotions and memories from the nervous system.
It is especially helpful for people who:

  • Struggle to talk about their trauma

  • Have done therapy before but still feel stuck

  • Are highly sensitive or easily overwhelmed

  • Avoid trauma therapy for fear of being retraumatized

ImTT allows clients to move through intense emotions without having to re-tell or re-live the traumatic event. Instead, it focuses on safely releasing stored emotional pain using your own internal imagery—at your own pace.

What Can ImTT Help With?

Image Transformation Therapy is effective for addressing a wide range of emotional and somatic challenges, including:

  • PTSD and trauma (including complex and developmental trauma)

  • Grief and loss

  • Chronic anxiety or panic

  • Guilt, shame, or self-loathing

  • Phobias or intrusive thoughts

  • Anger and emotional overwhelm

  • Painful memories that feel “frozen” in time

Clients often describe feeling lighter, calmer, and more grounded after a session—as though the emotional charge has been turned down or released entirely.

How Does ImTT Work in Therapy?

ImTT is a structured process that includes:

  1. Guided Breathwork to activate a sense of safety and presence

  2. Visualization Techniques to bring up the feeling or memory—gently and at a distance

  3. Image Transformation to release the emotional intensity tied to that image

  4. Reintegration to solidify the shift and restore a sense of internal calm

What makes ImTT unique is that it bypasses the need for verbal storytelling. You don’t have to explain everything. You just have to show up—and let the process do the work.

Why Try ImTT at Reclaim & Rise?

At Reclaim & Rise, we understand how exhausting it can be to carry trauma that feels too heavy to talk about.
Our therapist trained in ImTT provides a compassionate, non-invasive approach that honors your boundaries, nervous system, and healing pace.

Whether you’ve done years of therapy or are just beginning this journey, ImTT offers a fresh, deeply respectful way to help your body and mind let go of what no longer serves you.

You Can Heal Without Re-Traumatizing Yourself

If you’ve been avoiding therapy because it feels too scary, too much, or too painful—ImTT might be the approach you didn’t know you needed.
It doesn’t force you to talk about what happened. It helps you let go of how it still lives in your body.

Book your free consultation below. There is another way to heal—and we’re here to walk it with you.