The InCorr Method: Somatic Trauma Healing

Introducing The InCorr Method

The InCorr Method a groundbreaking approach to trauma healing that bridges the gap between neuroscience and embodied practice. Developed by visionary practitioner Shauna Quigley, InCorr (Interoceptive Core Reconsolidation) is a gentle, body-based psychotherapy that enables individuals to access and resolve trauma at its deepest roots rather than merely managing their symptoms.

Unlike traditional therapeutic approaches that primarily focus on cognitive processing, the InCorr Method harnesses the healing potential of interoceptive or somatic awareness – the body’s sense of its internal state. This innovative framework enables clients to achieve profound, sustainable transformation through a scientifically grounded yet deeply experiential process.

What Is the InCorr Method?

The InCorr Method is a body-centred, therapeutic framework that uses phenomenological interoception (the sensing internal feelings) to identify, deepen into and resolve the primary pain of trauma and anxiety. Research has shown that interoception helps clients to experience body sensations without identifying with them, preventing learned maladaptive reactions, e.g. overwhelm, panic or shutdown. The InCorr Method builds on this scientific foundation while offering a unique, non-formulaic approach to healing.

The InCorr Method places the therapeutic relationship at the centre of healing, rooted in compassion, trust and unconditional positive regard. Real transformation happens through genuine connection, not transaction. This relational foundation acknowledges that healing occurs within the safety of attuned, compassionate presence. The method views trauma as an opportunity for reconnection rather than evidence of brokenness. InCorr also empowers individuals to participate consciously in their own healing. Throughout every phase of the journey, InCorr nurtures autonomy, embodiment and integration, and empowers clients to reclaim their inherent wholeness.

Core Principles of the InCorr Method

The Core Principles of the InCorr Method are:

• Targeting Root Causes, Not Symptoms: The InCorr Method doesn’t help people to manage distress – it facilitates genuine healing by working with the underlying origins of trauma rather than addressing surface-level manifestations.
• Interoception is the Therapeutic Gateway: Authentic healing begins with inner attunement. Studies indicate that interoceptive processing dynamically couples internal bodily signals to brain dynamics, influencing cognition, emotion and perception. InCorr guides clients to connect with their body’s internal landscape, where trauma resides and where real transformation unfolds.
• Making the Process Explicit: InCorr moves beyond the vague directive to “trust the process”. Instead, it provides a clear, understandable roadmap for healing that demystifies trauma recovery and empowers both practitioners and clients.
• Person-Centred Rather Than Protocol-Based: The method develops relational, attuned presence rather than relying on predetermined protocols. This enables facilitators to co-create healing journeys that arise organically and endure long-term.

The Four-Part InCorr Process

The InCorr Method defines a comprehensive four-stage framework for healing:

1. Preparation: Establishing safety, building resources, and creating the conditions necessary for deep therapeutic work. This phase focuses on developing interoceptive awareness and somatic literacy (the ability to read, understand and interpret sensations and feelings within the body).
2. Finding: Identifying, accessing and feeling into the core wounds through body-centred exploration. This involves directing attention to internal sensations and feelings, including emotions.
3. Healing: The reconsolidation of traumatic imprints through embodied processing. Research on memory reconsolidation suggests that interfering with memory reconsolidation holds valuable potential for treating maladaptive memories and psychiatric disorders.
4. Becoming: Integrating the healing, and supporting the emergence of a transformed sense of self rooted in embodied wholeness.

The Scientific Foundations: Interoception and Trauma

The InCorr Method is firmly grounded in interoceptive science – the study of how we sense and process internal bodily states. Interoception encompasses awareness of heartbeat, breathing, hunger, temperature, pain and emotional sensations within the body.

• Why Interoception Matters for Trauma Healing: When trauma occurs, it often disrupts the normal functioning of the body’s internal sensing systems, leaving individuals disconnected from or overwhelmed by their bodily experiences. The InCorr Method sees trauma and chronic stress as the nervous system staying on high alert, which adversely affects how the body, heart and mind work together. By working directly with interoceptive awareness, the method helps to restore balance to these core response networks.
• Memory Reconsolidation and Trauma: Memory reconsolidation is the process where a traumatic memory temporarily becomes malleable, so it can be updated or changed before being stored again. The InCorr Method utilises this neurobiological process to help clients transform trauma-related memories. Studies show that remaining aware of body sensations while observing them without identification maintains equilibrium and helps to reduce reactive responses. This aligns precisely with InCorr’s approach of using interoceptive awareness as the primary therapeutic tool.

How InCorr Differs from Other Therapeutic Approaches

• InCorr vs. Traditional Talk Therapy: While conventional psychotherapy mainly works with thoughts and emotions through talking, InCorr focuses on the body’s felt sense as the main pathway to healing. By tuning into bodily sensations and feelings, clients can access and release trauma and stress that may not be reachable through words alone.
• InCorr vs. Exposure Therapy: Unlike exposure therapies that directly evoke traumatic memories, the InCorr approach accesses charged memories indirectly and gradually while facilitating new corrective interoceptive experiences that neutralise overwhelm and helplessness.
• The Integration of Science and Essence: InCorr combines evidence-based neuroscientific research with direct, embodied human experience – what the method calls integrating “evidence and essence.” The approach ensures that therapeutic interventions are both scientifically sound and deeply connected to the client’s embodied lived experiences.

Who Can Benefit from the InCorr Method?

Individuals seeking to heal from trauma, anxiety, depression and stress can benefit from working with an InCorr-trained therapist. The method is particularly effective for those who:

• Have tried traditional therapy with limited results.
• Experience physical symptoms connected to emotional pain.
• Seek healing beyond symptom management.
• Want to understand their healing process explicitly.
• Feel disconnected from their heart and/or body.

The Growing Field of Somatic and Interoceptive Therapies

The InCorr Method is part of a growing wave of body-focused therapies. Research increasingly demonstrates that somatic therapeutic approaches treating post-traumatic symptoms by changing interoceptive and proprioceptive sensations show promising effectiveness.

This growing body of evidence validates what somatic therapists have observed clinically: that lasting healing requires engaging the body’s wisdom alongside cognitive and emotional processing. Somatic therapies, such as InCorr, help people to understand how their body sensations connect to their thoughts and feelings, and how these patterns can shift in conditions like anxiety and trauma.

The InCorr Method represents a paradigm shift in how we understand and facilitate trauma recovery. By making the healing process explicit and understandable, grounding interventions in interoceptive science, and honouring each person’s unique lived experience, InCorr offers a pathway to genuine, lasting transformation.

The InCorr Method offers a revolutionary psychotherapeutic framework grounded in both evidence and essence – a true integration of science and the sacred dimensions of human healing. Its rigorous scientific grounding and deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom, positions the InCorr Method at the forefront of contemporary trauma therapy.