RET Book
Straight to the Heart:
Radical Exposure Tapping and the Transformative Healing of Trauma
Radical Exposure Tapping (RET) is a fast, focused trauma therapy that helps clients transform emotionally charged memories—without re-traumatisation or dissociation. Grounded in memory reconsolidation science, RET offers a structured yet emotionally attuned path for resolving the pain of the past and shifting identity-level beliefs.
In Straight to the Heart, Laurie MacKinnon introduces RET in full, drawing on decades of clinical experience, video-based teaching, and systemic therapy practice. This book teaches a method that is both practical and profound—combining somatic tracking, client-language tapping, and a clear step-by-step protocol that works with trauma at its source.
This book teaches RET in full. It includes foundational theory, step-by-step session guides, and richly detailed case studies—all drawn from real clinical work. Readers will learn how to build safety without over-accommodation, track moment-to-moment shifts in body and affect, and guide clients through powerful belief changes that last. More than a method, RET is a way of being with trauma: precise, emotionally honest, and profoundly effective. For therapists who want to go deeper—without getting lost—this book offers a clear, teachable, and transformational path.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Part I – What Is RET and Why It Matters
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What Is Radical Exposure Tapping?
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How RET Came to Be
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From Practice to Protocol
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Foundations of RET
Part III – The RET Method in Action
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Setting the Scene
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Memory in the Therapy Room
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The RET Session: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Working with Hyperarousal in RET (“Fire”)
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Time Travel: Level 2 RET
Part V – Clinical Integration and Teaching Tools
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Therapist Reflection: Staying in the Zone (tracking, regulation, and emotional neutrality)
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Clinical Reflections and Teaching Gems (metaphors, supervision insights, teaching voice)
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Glossary of RET Terms
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Resources and Further Reading
Part II – Structure, Safety, and Therapist Stance
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Deliver Full and Consult Model
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The Client as a Person
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The Therapist as a Guide
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Preparing the Ground
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Safety Without Softening
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The Trauma List
Part IV – Case Studies in RET
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Block the Door (childhood panic and shame; belief shift)
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On Fire (hyperarousal, fear of male rage; Level 1 to Level 2 transition)
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I Am Adopted (grief, identity rupture, family dynamics)
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I Froze (childhood sexual abuse; belief switch)
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Tapping on the Label (self-concept, diagnosis, and language)
Due to be published soon
ebook AUD 24.99 USD 19.99
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