I'm Richard Lee, one of a limited number of UK therapists trained in Post-Induction Therapy — the therapeutic model developed by Pia Mellody at The Meadows treatment centre. PIT is designed specifically to address the developmental trauma that underlies addiction, codependency, and many emotional difficulties that traditional talk therapy often struggles to reach.
If you've been in therapy before but feel the underlying patterns haven't shifted, PIT offers a different approach — one that works at the developmental level, where these patterns were originally formed.
In-person sessions in Fitzrovia (W1W) and Bromley (BR1), plus online therapy across the UK.
Most therapy operates at the cognitive level — exploring thoughts, challenging beliefs, building insight. For many people, that's valuable. But developmental trauma doesn't live in your thoughts. It lives in your sense of self, your nervous system, and your relational blueprint. PIT works at that deeper level.
Pia Mellody identified five core issues that developmental trauma creates. PIT works systematically through each one — not just talking about them, but helping you experience a different way of being.
Moving from deep, often unconscious shame to a genuine experience of being inherently worthwhile — not because of what you do, but because of who you are.
Learning what a boundary actually is — physically and emotionally — and how to use it. Most people with developmental trauma have never experienced healthy boundaries modelled.
Trusting your own perceptions. Many trauma survivors learned that their reality was "wrong" — PIT helps you reclaim the ability to know and own your experience.
Meeting your needs in healthy, direct ways — rather than through substances, compulsive behaviours, or other people. This is about learning to depend appropriately.
Living in the grey areas. Developmental trauma often creates all-or-nothing thinking and behaviour. PIT helps you find the middle path — where healthy living actually happens.
These five issues aren't separate — they reinforce each other. As each one heals, the others strengthen, creating momentum toward genuine, sustainable change.
PIT was originally developed for addiction treatment, but its scope is much broader. Because it addresses the developmental roots of emotional difficulties, it's effective for anyone whose current struggles have origins in childhood experience.
PIT sessions are structured differently from traditional therapy. While we do talk, there's also a focus on experiential work — helping you feel the shift rather than just understand it intellectually.
If traditional therapy hasn't shifted the patterns you came to heal, PIT may be the approach you've been looking for. Let's talk — I offer a free 15-minute consultation to explore whether this approach fits what you need.
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