Find Reason Therapy

Find Reason Therapy Find Reason Therapy was founded by Jackson Goding, a Psychotherapist based in Sydney, Australia.

So many practitioners believe the work happens in the session.But insight alone doesn’t reshape a nervous system.And cla...
22/12/2025

So many practitioners believe the work happens in the session.

But insight alone doesn’t reshape a nervous system.
And clarity inside the room doesn’t always translate to capacity outside of it.

This is where a lot of skilled, thoughtful practitioners quietly get stuck,
not because they don’t understand the work,
but because integration isn’t carried into the rhythms of daily life.

The real depth of this work shows up in how you meet yourself
when there’s no client, no structure, no mirror.
In the moments between sessions.
In what you choose when no one is watching.

If you’ve ever felt like the work lands in the room
but dissolves once life resumes... THIS will make sense.

WHY THE WORK AIN’T WORKING
Free training in bio.
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21/12/2025

If you work with fight energy, the body needs somewhere for that energy to go.

Many practitioners are taught to soothe anger quickly slow the breath, calm the system, bring clients back into regulation.

But fight energy doesn’t always want to be calmed first.

Fight is an outward-moving survival response.
It wants resistance.
It wants exertion.
It wants completion.

When that energy has nowhere to go, it stays trapped in the body fueling tension, shame, and self-attack instead of resolution.

This is why clients can understand their anger
but still feel charged, restless, or stuck afterward.

The body never got to finish what it started.

Here are two simple somatic ways to work with fight energy in session or as integration outside the room:

Pushing against a wall
Use a ball or resistance so the client can push and win.
Let the effort complete. Tense all muscles.

Towel gripping and twisting
Invite tension through the arms, shoulders, and core.
Allow the body to express strength and exertion.

Then pause and track what happens next
breath, sensation, settling, or emotional shift

Bonus points: speak some affirming assertive language in there. Like get out, back off, this is my space, NOT TODAY.

This isn’t about acting out anger.
It’s about helping the body experience that anger can move, resolve, and settle.

Fight energy doesn’t need suppression
it needs safe completion.

Used gently and intentionally, these practices become powerful preparation for deeper trauma processing and integration work.

Used recklessly, you do unhinged rage releases and don’t integrate just yell.

Somatic tools help clients build trust in their capacity to move through activation
instead of fearing it.

This is one of the small, precise details that changes how trauma work lands in the body.

If this is useful, save it for your practice or your next session.

18/12/2025

ROUNDTABLE group supervision reflections

If your body isn’t with you, your clients will feel it.

You walk into the room.
You say the right things.
You know the work.

But your system hasn’t landed yet.

You’re technically present, but internally scattered.

Your energy is split between the last session and the next one.
You’re showing up but not fully arriving.

And clients notice that before you ever say a word.

Attunement thins.
Presence becomes effort.
The work feels flatter than it should even when nothing is “wrong.”

We’re human.
Life is full.
We don’t arrive regulated by default.

Presence isn’t a personality trait
it’s the result of devotion to grounding, again and again.

This isn’t about being perfect.
It’s about intention.

One breath before the next client.
One second of returning to the body.
One small ritual that brings you back.

That 1 percent shift compounds into a completely different way of holding the room.

This is the quiet refinement most practitioners overlook.

If this landed, the Refinement Roundtable is where we work with these details slowly, honestly, and deeply.

Many people assume “the work” happens in the session.Inside four walls.Inside a scheduled hour.This is also where a lot ...
16/12/2025

Many people assume “the work” happens in the session.
Inside four walls.
Inside a scheduled hour.

This is also where a lot of practitioners quietly plateau.

They’re fluent in the language.
They can facilitate depth for others.
They know how to hold complexity.

Yet outside the room, the work doesn’t always translate.

They’re regulated while holding clients…
then activated once the day continues.

They meet others with care…
and meet themselves with demand.

They teach embodiment…
while pushing past their own limits on repeat.

Not because they’re unaware.
But because the work was never meant to be confined to a session.

A session can orient you.
But the nervous system reorganises through living.

You can leave feeling clear, steady, connected…
and within moments fall back into familiar movements:
speeding up, checking out, self-correcting, self-abandoning.

That isn’t ignorance.
It’s unfinished integration.

Insight opens the door.
But stability is built through rhythm.
Through repetition.
Through the small, often unglamorous moments where you choose to stay with yourself.

The depth you long to live
and the depth you invite others into
is shaped by how you inhabit your days.
How you wake.
How you speak inwardly.
How you allow emotion without bypassing it.

The real work isn’t visible.
It’s what happens when there’s no witness.

If this resonates, I’m curious:
What helps you return to yourself daily, not just during sessions?

🔗 WHY THE WORK AIN’T WORKING
Free training in bio.
Comment WHY and I’ll send it to you.

The same pattern doesn’t keep returning by accident.And it didn’t start in adulthood.You don’t struggle because you have...
14/12/2025

The same pattern doesn’t keep returning by accident.
And it didn’t start in adulthood.

You don’t struggle because you haven’t tried hard enough.
Most people here have already done years of work.
They understand attachment.
They can identify parts.
They know the theory.

And yet…
One moment of distance, tension, or withdrawal
and something takes over before there’s time to think.

That isn’t a setback.
It isn’t avoidance.
And it isn’t a lack of insight.

It’s the Adaptive Teen.
A survival-based system formed during a time when staying connected meant staying acceptable, useful, invisible, or in control.

That adaptation wasn’t a flaw.
It was intelligent.
It kept you safe when there weren’t other options.

The issue isn’t that the system still exists.
It’s that it was never properly met, updated, or relieved.

When survival strategies become identity,
the nervous system keeps running an outdated program.
Overworking. Overmanaging. Over-functioning.
Not because it wants to, but because it doesn’t know another way yet.

Lasting change doesn’t come from trying to outgrow these parts.
It comes from the Functional Adult learning how to stay present with them.

Not rushing.
Not fixing.
But creating enough internal safety for the system to finally soften.

That’s when healing stops being something you do
and becomes something you’re actually held inside.

If you’re a practitioner wanting to integrate this depth into how you work with others and yourself,
Authenticate is where refinement happens.
DM AUTHENTICATE for the pathway.

Let’s stop bracing inside the work
and start being supported by it.

Aha moments feel good.Clients connect the dots, name the protector, feel that spark…and it looks like something shifted....
11/12/2025

Aha moments feel good.
Clients connect the dots, name the protector, feel that spark…
and it looks like something shifted.

But here’s the honest part of this work:
Insight isn’t the transformation.
It’s the opening.

Because you can have the perfect explanation,
the clearest framing,
the most resonant breakthrough,
and their body still responds the same way next week.

That’s not a lack of skill.
It’s the difference between chasing clarity
and cultivating embodiment.

This is the place where most practitioners get stuck.
Not in understanding the work,
but in how they hold it.

Presence.
Pacing.
Attunement.

The ability to stay with what shows up
That’s where the real shift happens.

Insight starts the fire.
Embodiment carries it forward.

If you’re ready to work at the level where sessions don’t just “make sense”
but create change...
DM AUTHENTICATE and I’ll send you the next steps.

09/12/2025

If you’re thinking about what tool to use you’re not with the client. Simple as that

You’re sitting across from someone in their deepest emotional truth,
and your mind starts scanning:
somatic? parts? attachment? nervous system? trauma mapping?

You try to find the right modality.
You adjust your posture because you “should.”
You pick language based on theory instead of presence.
You attempt to attune while thinking about attunement.

The client doesn’t feel met, they feel managed.
They got robot you, analytic you,
Depth becomes technical.
Emotion becomes assessment.
The moment collapses under your internal checklist.

Because when you’re in your head asking,
“What do I do next?”
your nervous system has left the relationship.

Your tools can connect
but only if your presence goes first.

Let the body relate before the mind intervenes.
Stay with what you notice.
Name what lands.
Tools are powerful
but they are amplifiers of presence, not substitutes for it.

Save this for the session where you catch yourself calculating.

Join our free refinement Roundtable where we deeply reflect and talk all things trauma.

04/12/2025

Don’t teach before you attune.

Your client drops into something real, a wound, a memory, an emotional edge
and instead of meeting them there…
you retreat into explaining.

You go to the board. You over explain/intellectualise

You start mapping the pattern.
You translate their experience into concepts.
You talk them through what’s happening instead of staying with what’s happening.

And it looks helpful.
But it doesn’t feel like the moment you were just in.

Because going to the board isn’t always about clarity.
Most of the time, it’s about regulation
you trying to make yourself safe in the room.

And when that happens, you miss them.
You interrupt the emotional process.
You block the depth that was already unfolding.

Picture it:
Your client finally accesses something tender.
Their voice shakes.
Their guard drops.
Their body softens for the first time all session.

And instead of staying with the rawness…
you step back into your head,
reach for the marker,
and explain their childhood wound while they’re still in it.

They lose the moment.
You lose the moment.
The work loses its potency.

Psychoeducation is powerful
but not when it replaces presence.

If you teach before you attune,
you turn depth into distance.
You turn emotion into analysis.
You turn transformation into insight that never roots.

Your craft lives in your ability
to stay with what’s happening
before you translate it.

This isn’t about avoiding the board.
It’s about choosing it intentionally.
Using it after the emotional moment lands,
not instead of it.

This is the difference between a session that moves and a session that disconnects.

Choose your board wisely.
Use it to integrate
not to interrupt.

If this touched something in you, there’s a reason.

This is the refinement that changes everything.

25/11/2025

So many people think “doing the work” just happens in the therapy room.

But this is where so many practitioners get stuck with their clients.

They can talk about the work.
They can guide others through it.

They regulate in sessions…
and dysregulate at home.
They speak compassionately to clients…
and harshly to themselves.
They teach embodiment…
but override their body during the day.

Because the work doesn’t live in the hour you pay for.

It lives in everything you choose outside of it.

Picture this:
You leave a session feeling clear, grounded, fully in your truth…
and within 20 minutes you’re back in your old patterns, rushing, numbing, performing, self-abandoning.

Not because you don’t know better…
but because the integration hasn’t been carried forward

Sessions give you insight.
But your nervous system reshapes through repetition, rhythm, and the small daily moments where you return to yourself.

The depth you want, the depth you guide your clients into is built in how you wake, how you walk, how you speak to yourself, how you sit with your emotions outside of the room.

The real work is everything you do when no one is watching.

If this lands, let me know how you bring yourself home, not once a week, but every day

Why the work ain’t working, free training in bio or comment why

19/11/2025

FREE TRAINING IN BIO.
Most practitioners understand parts work.
They can name the Wounded Child, the protector the shadows etc
They know the language.
They know the theory.

But where it breaks down is here:
the sequence.
The order.
The actual way the system needs to be met in the room.

So here’s the picture.

When something too big or too soon happened, the Wounded Child fragmented.
Raw. Exposed. Alone.
No capacity to make sense of it.

So the Adapted Adult Child stepped in.
The protector.
The teenager as I call them.
The part that defends, manages, over-functions, attacks, retreats, numbs, controls.

Its job is simple:
SURVIVE
Keep the wound hidden.
Keep the shame contained.
Keep the system moving.

And because this part learned to survive alone, it will not move aside just because the adult self wants to “go deeper.”

This is where most practitioners unintentionally miss the mark.
They speak to the wound before meeting the protector.
They go for the story without attuning to the state.
They try to heal what the system is still protecting.

And this is the Integration Gap.

Not because they lack skill.
But because they lack flow – the embodied understanding that protectors must be parented before the wound can ever be met.

When the functional adult enters the room – present, regulated, unhurried – everything changes.

They don’t bypass the teen.
They sit with them.
They honour the years of work they’ve done to keep the system intact.
They acknowledge the strength, the devotion, the exhaustion.

Only then does the protector soften.
Only then does the system allow access to the wound.
Only then does true depth work begin.

Because the wound does not open to expertise.
It opens to safety.

If this work speaks to you, and you want to integrate your modalities into one embodied way of working then do our freee training

WHY THE WORK AINT WORKING in bio or comment WHY

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