@Ivy Moon so would you say at that point you were healing or were you growing and learning because that’s a different mindset right? That’s nothing broken. You’re just learning skills right

@Melanie Starr thank you for sharing your approach

@Eliane Elhaddad I hear that and what I see so often is saftey is almost impossible to achieve because the war is going on within self. The QTX protocol is proficient about utilizing the state when it shows up and creating the safety within self and completion within the loop with in just a few minutes.

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@Melanie Starr thank you melanie

@Brandi Beverly Brandi, I hear that. And I actually think what you are naming is one of the most important pieces of this conversation. When there was no real developmental space for a core self to form safely, the person often builds around survival. Roles, schemas, caretaking, vigilance, achievement, crisis response, advocacy, intellect, sexuality, attachment adaptations — all of these can become organizing structures when the original self did not get to develop in safety. And while every person’s story is unique, this pattern is something I see often in complex trauma and dissociative populations. That is part of why I am so interested in the mechanism underneath it. Because when identity is built around survival adaptations, the work cannot only be about insight. The system has to find the frozen places where those adaptations became necessary, and then begin restoring order to the timeline, memory, body, and sense of self. So I would not place you outside the conversation. I would say you are naming the very center of it. For QTX, this is where the flashback pathway matters. We are not only looking at what happened. We are looking at where the system began organizing itself around what happened — the meanings, assumptions, protections, and survival rules that kept shaping the future.

@Brandi Beverly I hear this and I can feel the weight you are carrying. I have also been where you stand and there is a way out. Dm me

@Brandi Beverly Yes. This is exactly the problem I keep coming back to. The people with the deepest trauma histories are often the ones with the least access to care that can actually reach the depth of what they are carrying. And when the only options are wildly expensive programs, limited scholarships, or one practitioner within driving distance who accepts state medical services, that is not real access. That is a system telling people to survive something nearly impossible and then making the pathway to help nearly impossible too. This is part of why I am building QTX as a training pathway for practitioners. The goal is not to replace every modality. The goal is to give more trained people a way to work with the mechanism underneath trauma loops, especially where the client has been cycling for years and traditional access points have not been enough.

@Brandi Beverly That is a really important question. EMDR and QTX are not doing the same thing, even though both may involve trauma memory, body response, and material that is not fully resolved through talk therapy alone. EMDR generally works through bilateral stimulation while the client brings up traumatic material and the nervous system reprocesses it. QTX works through the dissociative mechanism itself. We are following the flashback pathway back to the frozen survival moment — or sometimes the moment just behind it, where the child’s system embedded the assumptions, meanings, and survival rules that continued shaping the future. In memory, the client is seeing what happened. In flashback, the client is being the unresolved moment. QTX is designed to work with that distinction. The client remains verbal, responsive, and physically observable, but we are not just asking them to retell the story. We are tracking the live state, the body, the loop, and the pathway the system is already using to relocate into the past. As far as “better results,” I would not frame it as QTX versus EMDR. EMDR has helped many people. But there are also clients who do not get full resolution through EMDR, especially when dissociation, CPTSD, looping states, and frozen child-state material are still organizing the present. QTX was built for that level of stuck survival pattern. So I would say: EMDR is a recognized trauma-processing modality. QTX is a different protocol working through a different access point — the dissociative flashback pathway — with the goal of resolving the loop at the level where the system is still living it.