Image Transformation Therapy
Revolutionary Healing Without Reliving Trauma
Discover the life and freedom you've been searching for through Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) at Soul & Psyche. Our compassionate, innovative approach allows you to gently process traumatic memories and eliminate traumatic memories without experiencing retraumatization. Serving clients throughout California with additional online services for English-speaking clients internationally, we offer transformative healing that goes beyond traditional psychological treatment to address the deeper roots of human suffering.
Built on the foundation of our 23-year partnership, we bring a unique depth of understanding and collaboration to every therapeutic relationship, offering you the benefit of our shared wisdom and complementary expertise in your healing journey.
What Is Image Transformation Therapy?
Image Transformation Therapy represents a groundbreaking therapeutic modality developed by Dr. Robert Miller that employs sophisticated breathing and visualization techniques to safely transform intense feelings and emotional pain associated with trauma. Unlike conventional approaches that require detailed verbal processing of traumatic experiences, ImTT utilizes guided imagery to access and heal traumatic memories or negative feelings without forcing you to relive painful experiences.
At Soul & Psyche, we integrate transformation therapy into our comprehensive treatment approach, recognizing that many clients carry the weight of persistent anxiety depression or dysfunctional behaviors despite previous therapeutic efforts. Our method addresses disruptive thoughts and behaviors while helping you overcome tough emotional challenges, resolve burnout, compassion fatigue, and hypervigilance, and reclaim your authentic self.
How Image Transformation Therapy Works
The Gentle Transformation Process
Our ImTT process unfolds through carefully orchestrated phases designed to ensure your complete safety and emotional well-being:
Initial Preparation: We begin by identifying underlying emotions connected to distressing experiences while establishing a strong therapeutic foundation where you feel completely safe and supported. Our specialized breathing techniques help you achieve optimal relaxation and emotional readiness.
Visualization and Release: The core of transformation therapy involves guided visualization where you connect with feelings linked to traumatic memories while maintaining safe emotional distance. We help you transform the emotional charge into symbolic representations—such as colors or shapes—that you can then release through controlled breathing exercises, allowing you to process pain and terror without retraumatization.
Integration and Restoration: After emotional release occurs, we guide you through reintegration and restoration of emotional balance. This ensures you not only release emotional pain but also achieve renewed equilibrium and connection to your authentic self.
This innovative process eliminates traumatic memories disruptive thoughts without requiring you to recount traumatic details, making it particularly effective for individuals who find traditional talk therapy challenging or retraumatizing.
Who Benefits from Image Transformation Therapy?
Individuals Ready for Deep Healing Work
We welcome individuals who are ready for deep healing work and authentic transformation. Many of our clients seek greater peace and freedom in their lives, having carried persistent sadness, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion that seems to linger despite previous therapeutic efforts. Others have experienced neglect, abuse, or betrayal—whether from family, professional environments, or religious institutions—that has left them burdened by negative self-beliefs and emotional pain.
Our approach particularly supports those grappling with invisible wounds of trauma related to relocation, loss, spiritual abuse, and emotional neglect. We also work with individuals who have experienced burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness, helping them rediscover their inner strength and authentic voice.
For Those with Established Sobriety
For individuals with 12 or more months of sobriety who are ready for deeper trauma work, we offer specialized support in healing the underlying trauma, shame, and emotional pain that may have contributed to substance use. Our trauma-focused approach addresses root causes rather than addiction-specific treatment, supporting your continued growth in recovery through healing foundational wounds.
Those Seeking Innovative Approaches
ImTT particularly benefits individuals who may find traditional talk therapy insufficient for their needs. This includes people who prefer experiential approaches, those who have difficulty articulating experiences verbally, and individuals who become retraumatized when asked to recount their experiences in detail.
Conditions We Address with ImTT
Our comprehensive approach effectively supports healing from various concerns including:
Anxiety: We address anxiety and underlying emotional patterns at their roots using transformation therapy
Depression: ImTT eliminates traumatic memories while helping you process underlying causes of persistent sadness
Post-traumatic Stress: Our treatment gently processes traumatic memories disruptive thoughts safely without retraumatization
Spiritual Abuse: Particularly effective for those with histories of institutional betrayal or religious trauma
Trauma-Related Challenges: For those with established sobriety, we address underlying trauma and shame that may have contributed to substance use patterns
Our Comprehensive Therapeutic Approach
Integrated Treatment Modalities
At Soul & Psyche, we combine ImTT with other evidence-based modalities to create personalized healing experiences:
Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats: Our immersive retreat format allows for focused exploration of emotional challenges, combining ImTT with other therapeutic modalities for accelerated healing and deeper transformation.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Both of our therapists are extensively trained in EMDR, integrating it with transformation therapy to provide comprehensive trauma treatment and multiple pathways to freedom from painful memories.
Ego State Therapy (EST) and Internal Family Systems (IFS): Our approach recognizes the complexity of human psychology, helping you reconnect with your core Self while integrating all aspects of your experience.
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST): Kimberly's Level III training with Dr. Janina Fisher provides specialized parts work that complements ImTT's gentle approach to trauma processing.
What Sets Us Apart
At the heart of our psychology practice is a commitment to offering transformative psychological treatments that go beyond symptom management to address the deeper roots of human suffering. Rather than simply alleviating surface-level expressions such as depression and anxiety, our practice seeks to uncover and heal the underlying wounds and unmet needs that give rise to these symptoms.
Central to our approach is guiding clients on a journey of self-discovery, helping them fulfill the fundamental human need to realize their True Self. This includes supporting clients who are ready to know and integrate their often unacknowledged shadow aspects—the parts that cling to control and resist vulnerability. By fostering deep inner work and authentic connection to the self, our practice empowers lasting change, greater freedom, and a more meaningful, conscious life.
Research and Effectiveness
Currently the image transformation field is advancing through innovative research matters. Dr. Robert Miller, who is trained in image transformation techniques, works in collaboration with the University of California San Diego to conduct rigorous research on ImTT's effectiveness for PTSD treatment. The University of California San Diego is performing comprehensive studies with results anticipated in 2025.
Our clinical experience demonstrates that ImTT effectively addresses various conditions including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and emotional neglect. The therapy's versatility stems from its ability to access and transform emotional roots underlying multiple symptoms and life challenges.
Your Healing Journey at Soul & Psyche
Our Intake Process
Initial Consultation: Your journey begins with a complimentary consultation call with our intake coordinator. They will answer your questions and guide you to who is most appropriate for your needs, ensuring you feel heard and understood from the beginning.
Therapeutic Matching: Once your consultation call is scheduled, you will speak with one of us to determine if an hourly format or a retreat is a good fit for your needs and circumstances. This personalized matching process ensures our expertise aligns with your specific healing goals.
Retreat Planning: If the retreat format is chosen, a deposit will secure your retreat dates. We work together to schedule dates accommodating your life circumstances while providing comprehensive preparation support.
What to Expect During Your Retreat
Day 1 - Building Foundation: The first day focuses on establishing a trusting relationship, sharing information about your life experience and goals for the retreat, and developing a sense of safety so you feel ready to move forward.
Trauma Processing: The afternoon of your first day and following days focus on using the most effective trauma processing modalities to clear your traumatic memories and help you move forward in your life. We always proceed at comfortable, sustainable paces.
Integration Support: Your retreat concludes with integration work to ensure you can take your newfound ease and insights and bring them into your daily life, supporting lasting transformation.
Why Choose Soul & Psyche?
23 Years of Partnership Excellence
The foundation of our work is captured in our 23-year relationship to one another—a partnership that has weathered seasons of growth, held space for each other's evolution, and deepened our capacity to hold space for others. This unique collaborative foundation brings unparalleled depth and wisdom to every therapeutic relationship.
Accessibility and Expertise
We offer both in-person services throughout California and online sessions for English-speaking clients internationally. Our team brings decades of combined experience and specialized training to every therapeutic relationship, including pioneering work in men's healing movements and extensive trauma treatment experience across diverse clinical settings.
Whether you're struggling with persistent anxiety or depression, carrying the weight of past trauma, or sensing you're meant for more authentic fulfillment, we invite you to explore how Image Transformation Therapy might serve your healing journey. Take the first step today to transform your life today and find the life and freedom you deserve.
Our Expert Team: Decades of Specialized Experience
Dr. Jordan Hamilton, Ph.D.
Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves through a rich and varied professional journey bridging art, business, and deep psychological inquiry. With a master's degree in theatre arts from the University of Michigan and early experience in Shakespearean theatre, he brings creative and empathic presence to his therapeutic work. His transition into real estate as a residential manager and later Vice President of a national investment firm provided insight into high-level leadership and the psychological demands of success.
Motivated by a personal calling to explore inner healing, Dr. Hamilton began volunteering as a lay counselor, eventually earning his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 1993 with a dissertation focused on intimacy and bonding in men's groups. A pioneer in the men's healing movement led by figures like Robert Bly and Thomas Moore, he integrates his EMDR training (completed in 1997) with artistic sensibility and strategic acumen. Dr. Hamilton also provides spiritual direction services, supporting clients in exploring both psychological and spiritual dimensions of their healing journey.
Our practice focuses on helping individuals heal from shame, self-worth issues, esteem problems, neglect, and verbal or physical abuse. Dr. Hamilton's multifaceted background allows him to support clients with a rare blend of depth, creativity, and grounded pragmatism, addressing the underlying trauma that may have contributed to various life challenges, including substance use patterns for those with established sobriety.
Kimberly Sanders, M.A.
What makes our psychology practice unique is the depth and breadth of Kimberly's experience, spanning over 30 years of clinical, research, and global service. From working at Camarillo State Hospital and supporting children and foster families in San Luis Obispo and Placer Counties, to contributing to groundbreaking research on genetic alcoholism at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, her path has been one of dedication to healing across diverse settings.
Originally certified in EMDR in 1991, Kimberly is a Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization practitioner trained directly by Dr. Janina Fisher. She integrates somatic healing through over 700 hours of yoga teacher training and brings a spiritual dimension to her work through certification in the Global Mystics program. Graduating cum laude from Pepperdine and maintaining a lifelong commitment to service, she brings a unique synthesis of clinical expertise, embodied practice, and heartfelt connection that sets our work apart.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Unlike conventional talk therapy, ImTT utilizes breathing and visualization techniques to access and transform emotional pain without requiring detailed verbal processing of traumatic events. This approach eliminates the need to relive traumatic experiences while still facilitating profound healing.
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Yes, we work with individuals who have 12 or more months of established sobriety and are ready for deeper trauma work. Our trauma-focused approach addresses underlying wounds and shame that may have contributed to substance use, supporting continued growth in recovery.
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We effectively address anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and spiritual abuse using our integrated approach that includes ImTT, EMDR, EST, IFS, and TIST modalities.
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Our long-standing collaborative relationship has deepened our capacity to hold space for others and brings unique wisdom to every therapeutic encounter, offering complementary expertise that enhances the healing process.
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Yes, we offer online sessions for English-speaking clients internationally, while maintaining our primary focus on serving clients throughout California.
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Contact us for a complimentary consultation call with our intake coordinator. They'll answer your questions and guide you toward the treatment approach most appropriate for your unique needs.
