How does INT work?

INT is a highly effective, SAFE, brain training process that targets disordered neural connections and pathways created by trauma, stress, burnout and crisis, and remodels these neural networks to regain brain balance and function.

Here’s a breakdown of the INT program for you…

INT – Introspective Neuroprocessing Training

A two-phase neuroscience and skills-based process for restoring regulation, rebuilding capacity, and strengthening neural communication.

Phase 1: Neutralising & Regulation

Phase 2: Rebuilding Capacity & Reframing Communication

Phase 1: Neutralising & Regulation

Purpose:
To reduce the load on the nervous system, create a new baseline function that promote access to brain regions required for emotional awareness, emotional processing and regulation
A dysregulated nervous system cannot sustainably rewire in a healthy way. Phase 1 creates the biological conditions required for helpful neural pathways to grow.

Core Focus Areas:

• Down-regulation of chronic threat activation (hyper- or hypo-arousal)

• Reduction of cognitive, emotional, and physiological load (overwhelm)

• Development of prefrontal regulatory neural networks

How:

• Nervous system state awareness
  Learning to accurately identify arousal levels felt in the body

• Emotional interoceptive awareness
  Learning to accurately identify emotions that are felt without analysis

• Threat detection recalibration
  Understanding how the brain interprets feeling unsafe, uncertain, or unconsidered as threat signals.

• Nervous system regulation strategies
  Practical, repeatable tools to stabilise the nervous system in real time anywhere

• Emotional intensity-reduction strategies
  Identifying and targetting internal stressors that keep the system activated

Outcomes of Phase 1:

• Reduced baseline nervous system activation

• Increased emotional capacity and stability

• Improved clarity, energy, and cognitive capability

• Consistent access to reflective (top-down) processing

• Sustainable, do-able, regulated applications for neuroplastic change

Phase 2: Rebuilding Capacity & Reframing Communication

Purpose:
To actively reshape and build new neural pathways, strengthen cognitive-emotional flexibility, and develop conscious influence over thought, emotion, and behaviour.
Once regulation is established, the brain becomes highly receptive to learning, integration, and long-term change. This is what builds growth and resilience.

Core Focus Areas:

• Intentional neuroplasticity (directed and undirected)

• Strengthening prefrontal–limbic communication (cognition-emotions relationship)

• Development of metacognition and control

• Thought pattern interruption and replacement

• Capacity building rather than symptom management

How:

• Metacognition training
  Learning to observe thoughts and emotions without being compulsively driven by them or compelled to analyse them

• Neural pattern identification
  Recognising conditioned survival mechanism responses, stress loops, and protective patterns

• Conflict communication training
  Guided communication skills that reinforce helpful adaptive growth pathways and conflict resolution

• Cognitive and emotional flexibility training
  Expanding the brain’s response options under stress

• Integration into real-world contexts
  Applying skills across relationships, work, identity, and performance environments

Outcomes of Phase 2:

• Increased self-regulation under pressure

• Reduced emotional reactivity and cognitive rigidity

• Stronger sense of agency and internal safety

• Increased self-confidence and self-value

• Improved decision-making, focus, and resilience

• Long-term neural change rather than short-term coping

Why INT has two phases

INT follows the brain’s biological order of operations:

1. Regulate first to restore capacity

2. Then rewire to build flexibility and control

Attempting neural rebuilding without regulation reinforces threat circuitry. INT prevents this by ensuring the nervous system is ready before asking it to change.