Presentation by Lilit Ranu Abrahamyan
“Shame, Guilt, and the Body. An IoPT Perspective“
Lilit Ranu Abrahamyan is an IoPT practitioner and trainer trained directly under Professor Franz Ruppert. With a background in IT project management and an MBA, she bridges organisational thinking with trauma-informed practice working with organisations on emotional intelligence and stress resilience. As well as she works with individuals on self-harm, body relationship, and emotional healing. Lilit has a particular passion for researching shame and guilt as survival strategies in the body, which became the focus of her diploma thesis at the Traumawork Institutt.
Lilit gave a presentation on the topic — Shame, Guilt and the Body: An IoPT Perspective. She draws on 2.5 years of practical work with over 35 individuals in more than 200 sessions. The presentation explored how shame and guilt operate as embodied survival strategies, why guilt can be conscious and shame not, and what IoPT reaches that other therapeutic approaches cannot. It includes original theoretical contributions developed through practical observation and a research interview with Professor Franz Ruppert.
This meeting is recorded, please feel free to reach out to info@ioptcafe.com to ask for the link to the recording.