TIP Transference Training

Overview

The TIP Transference Training is a unique opportunity to deepen your clinical effectiveness through the lens of transference work within the Trauma Integration Protocol™. Designed for mental health professionals and somatic therapy practitioners, this 6-month professional development training explores how traumatizing experiences, family stress-management behavior patterns, and early relational dynamics unconsciously shape client-therapist interactions—and how to harness that insight for therapeutic breakthroughs.

Led by master trainers Dr. Eric Wolterstorff and Dr. Herbert Grassmann, this training is especially suited for practitioners interested in a deeply embodied and relational approach to trauma resolution.

TIp Transference

October 8–12, 2025
Good Medicine Collective, 231 York Street, Portland, ME

Investment: $5,500


Early Bird Sale: $4,950
(sign-up before August 1, 2025)

Cohort-based training and integration.

5 days of in-person training

followed by

5 months of virtual consultation
10 biweekly 2-hour Zoom consultations (20 hours total)

How to Apply

*Due to the experiential and intensive nature of this training, space is limited.

Submit your online application. If accepted, you’ll receive a link to submit payment and secure your spot.

About the 
Training

TIP Transference Training explores transference not just as a clinical phenomenon, but as a central lever for healing and growth.

You will leave this training with greater insight into your own posttraumatic roles and a roadmap to continue your personal and professional development. Through experiential practice, embodied exercises, and rigorous conceptual teaching, participants learn to:

  • Recognize transference and countertransference dynamics in session

  • Track nervous system responses that emerge from traumatizing experiences, family stress-management behavior patterns, and early developmental states

  • Work with posttraumatic transference in attachment and relational dynamics

  • Understand how interpersonal "roles" form after trauma—and how to identify and work with them

  • Recognize how cultural patterns of trauma are passed down through child-rearing

  • Weaken destructive group dynamics emerging from posttraumatic roles

  • Deepen client trust through boundary work and relational transparency

  • Translate transference moments into powerful, healing interventions

  • Integrate the Trauma Integration Protocol™ with their existing modalities

Key Learning Outcomes

By the end of this training, participants will be able to identify and work skillfully with four core posttraumatic transference patterns and their susceptibilities.

Topics

  • Track memory systems in live clinical dynamics and use them to inform interventions

  • Navigate complex relational dynamics with greater confidence and ethical clarity

  • Apply TIP’s embodied boundary practices to strengthen trust and therapeutic alliance

  • Facilitate group processes and therapeutic relationships with improved presence and self-awareness

  • Integrate TIP’s relational insights with existing modalities, including somatic and psychodynamic approaches

  • Recognize their own transferential patterns and create a personal map for ongoing development

  • Reduce burnout and ethical risk through increased clarity, grounding, and systemic thinking

  • How interpersonal "roles" form in individuals (and groups) after trauma

  • How to identify and work with each of those four roles

  • How the roles relate to attachment patterns and memory systems (semantic, event, procedural)

  • How cultural patterns of trauma are passed through child-rearing, and how to identify and work with them

  • How posttraumatic roles show up in (destructive) group dynamics and how to weaken these dynamics

  • Countertransference worksheets

  • Resource, mastery, integration principles

  • Cultural transmission of trauma

  • Therapist traps (e.g., Savior complex, “Us vs. Them” dynamics)

  • Exercises taught in stages: explanation, demonstration, supervised practice

the Trainers

Dr. Eric Wolterstorff

Eric Wolterstorff, Ph.D., began his training in the 1990s under leaders like Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Arnold Mindell, and Max Schupbach. His early inquiry into how different methods (psychotherapy, yoga, meditation) yield distinct benefits led him to develop the Trauma Integration Protocol™.

With a Ph.D. in sociology focused on how groups respond to crises, Eric has trained clinicians across the globe in topics such as posttraumatic memory, transference, family systems, and trust-building. He has worked at the intersection of trauma, development, and collective systems in post-conflict regions, founding Sovereignty First—a consultancy that strengthens collaboration within international social impact networks.

He is known for bridging neuroscience, group systems, and clinical insight into a dynamic, precise teaching style.

Dr. Herbert Grassmann

Dr. Herbert Grassmann is a Certified TIP Transference Practitioner and internationally recognized expert in somatic trauma work. With decades of experience, he integrates mindfulness, somatic psychology, and Polyvagal Theory to support trauma resolution.

Herbert is the originator of the “polyvagal triangle,” a framework to recognize and shift autonomic states. He’s co-editor of Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, Polyvagal Perspectives—a volume praised by Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, and Daniel Siegel. He draws on deep roots in Hakomi, Structural Integration, and body psychotherapy.

Herbert has taught across Europe, the U.S., and Asia, and his work consistently combines cutting-edge theory with grounded clinical application.

FAQ

Additional Questions?

Email us: info@traumaIntegrationprotocol.com

  • This training is designed for licensed psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, and somatic practitioners (including Certified TIP Foundations Practitioners, SEP, RSMT, RCST, etc.). It is also open to psychedelic therapy providers and clinicians seeking to deepen their skills with relational dynamics, boundaries, and transference work.

  • While the TIP Foundations Training is not a formal prerequisite, it is highly recommended. This training builds upon its core concepts, deepening your understanding of procedural, event, and semantic memory as they appear in transference dynamics. It extends foundational boundary work (like saying “yes” and “no”) into more complex relational territory.

    That said, practitioners with strong backgrounds in somatic or transference-based work are very welcome, even if they haven’t taken the Foundations course. If you are interested in a Foundations course, there will be opportunities both before and after the October training to participate.

  • While this is not a psychedelic-assisted therapy training per se, a portion of the training will address how to safely and ethically integrate somatic therapy with psychedelics. This includes how to recognize and work with transference and countertransference dynamics that may arise in non-ordinary states of consciousness. Practitioners in the psychedelic field frequently find TIP’s clarity, ethical rigor, and embodied boundary work to be a valuable complement to their existing frameworks.

  • - In-person training: October 8–12, 2025
    - Virtual consultation: Ten 2-hour group sessions over five months (20 hours total)

  • The in-person portion will take place at Good Medicine Collective, 231 York Street, Portland, ME—a beautiful, purpose-built space designed for healing and learning.

  • Participants are responsible for their own lodging and meals. A list of recommended accommodations near the venue will be provided upon registration.

  • Cancellations made in writing more than 30 days before the training begins are eligible for a full refund minus a $150 administrative fee. Cancellations made within 30 days of the training are non-refundable unless your spot can be filled from the waitlist, in which case the same refund policy applies. If a participant is denied access to the course for any reason, a full refund will be issued. In the unlikely event that the training is canceled by the organizers, all payments will be refunded in full.

  • There are no discounts available at this time. However, payment plans are available through Klarna, which offers several flexible options—including the ability to pay in three or four interest-free installments. The Klarna option will appear during checkout on the website. A payment link will be provided once your application is accepted.

  • Submit your online application. If accepted, you will receive a link to make payment and secure your spot.

  • We are currently in the process of applying for CE approval. Updates will be provided once we receive confirmation.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Define transference and countertransference.

  2. Describe the semantic, event/episodic, and procedural memory systems.

  3. Describe the event/episodic memory dominant posttraumatic roles of Savior, Victim, Bystander, and Perpetrator.

  4. Identify signs of traumatic transference and apply interventions that support safe, paced integration of traumatic memories.

  5. Describe the procedural memory dominant habituated stress roles of Caretaker, Identified Patient, Distancer, and Outcast.

  6. Describe signs of habituated stress-triggered roles and apply specific exercises to gain comfort and fluidity with the Caretaker, Identified Patient, Distancer, and Outcast roles. 

Continuing Education Credit
Trauma Integration Protocol™ is seeking approval to offer TIP Transference Training for NBCC continuing education credit. Please check back for updates.

Accessibility and Accommodations
If you require any accommodations to participate in this training, please contact us at info@traumaintegrationprotocol.com. We are committed to ensuring full access for all participants.

Contact Information
Trauma Integration Protocol™
info@traumaintegrationprotocol.com
www.traumaintegrationprotocol.com