At Relatives for Justice a team of highly qualified complementary health therapists operate throughout the North of Ireland.
A professional best practice approach underpins and guides our Complementary Therapy programme and we have specifically designed our Complementary Therapy support services to meet and be responsive to the needs of people who have been bereaved or injured as a result of the conflict.
At RFJ we feel it is important that all the different aspects of trauma are considered when delivering complementary therapies and through continued practice development, regular team meetings and external clinical supervision, RFJ have created a unique complementary therapy model of support.
To ensure that our members are receiving a recognized high standard of therapeutic complementary therapies in the context of trauma our complementary therapists have all been:
- Trained to a high professional standard;
- Fully accredited
- Members of required professional and regulatory groups.
- As part of a mandatory self-care programme, the team are guided by the Complementary Therapy Coordinator and receive external clinical supervision to support their therapeutic practice
- The team are supported through the process of monitoring and evaluation to ensure the effectiveness of our model of delivering Complementary Therapies to Victims and Survivors of trauma.
- RFJ Complementary Therapists are qualified to use adaptive techniques required in delivering therapies to Victims and Survivors of trauma with complex medical conditions.
All the different aspects of trauma are well considered when delivering complementary therapies at RFJ and careful consideration given to each complementary therapy and how it can be used in its full capacity to treat the symptoms of trauma on both the physical and emotional level.
We understand that everyone has unique needs and it is a crucial aspect of RFJ complementary therapy programme, to help victims and survivors to develop their own inner strengths and build resources for managing emotions and symptoms of trauma, which includes setting treatment goals that help to regulate emotions and impulses related to trauma.
All our therapists are aware of the symptoms of PTSD and use the complementary therapies to support and improve the individual’s ability to achieve containment of these symptoms and enable the survivor to experience a feeling of safety- an important facet of support when dealing with trauma.
