​Whether you're a coach working with stuck business clients, or a therapist working with trauma, addiction recovery, or ancestral healing, it's the body, (not logic) that knows the root cause. Grounded in neuroscience, and validated by current research, RIM dissolves the root cause of the core beliefs and cognitive distortions, whether that cause is a recent event, childhood experiences, or even intergenerational trauma.​

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What is RIM?
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The traditional approach of powerful questioning, helping clients shift perspectives, or re-framing is extremely valuable. RIM creates an opportunity for coaches and therapists who already trust their clients' wholeness, to massively expand the potential with radical trust and safety. 
Routed in Two Minds Theory, grounded in neuroscience, and backed by current research at the University of Colorado, RIM has been proven significant results in just a single session.
​RIM has drastically affected how I show up as a university administrator, professor, mother, wife, neighbor, and all my other roles. By far, RIM has been the best training and growth opportunity that I have invested in. 
 
Colleen (Coco) Moon Sorensen, Salem, UT 
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"If you are a trainer, speaker, coach - any professional helping people grow, you need the RIM tool in your toolbox. No matter your pathway for helping people, you will be infinitely more effective and transformational if you learn to incorporate this technique." ~ Garrett Biss, CAPP, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, USMC(Ret.) New Bern, NC.
RIM is Different
We've taught RIM to hundreds of coaches and therapists, with myriad other certifications, who rave about RIM as their new go-to tool. The comparison list so far includes EMDR, IFS, ART, RRT, Brain-spotting, EFT/TFT Tapping, Hypnosis, NLP, CBT, Process Coaching, Somatic Coaching, Emotion Code, Family Constellations, Conversational Intelligence, Positive Intelligence, Active Imagination Therapy, Psychodrama, and dozens more.

Here are five big differences that separate RIM even from a few modalities that seem to use similar skills.

1. How deeply the work is truly client-generated. RIM will stretch what you think is possible following the client deeper and moving you further away from being the expert. (warning: it's a humbling experience if you think you're already a master at this). You will master the art of neutral witnessing and holding space, letting the client lead to the deepest work possible medication. In fact, current research shows RIM producing psychedelic-like results without the psychedelics. 

2. No need to know the issue. We don't need to explore or dig. It's common for the client and the facilitator to be surprised at what shows up, often something they would never have thought of. That's quite a gift, as the surprise is often the root of their biggest challenge.

3. Single session power. Each RIM session is a single, complete piece of work. We usually recommend at least 2-3 weeks between sessions and it's okay for more time in between. RIM is about removing the biggest blocks, making your other coaching and therapy tools work even better.

4. Speed and Trust. Clients frequently say they do more big work in their first RIM session than in weeks or years of traditional talk therapy or coaching. The relationship we're building is between the client and the client-self, not between the client and facilitator. Adding RIM sessions to your current program only makes the rest of your program more effective.

5. Autonomy. Sometimes a client does big work around an event without even revealing what the event was. We follow the emotion, not the story. 
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​"As a Master Certified Coach since 2006, I was looking for a tool to expand my skills in service of my coaching clients. Not only are my clients experiencing extraordinary self-discoveries using the RIM technique, I have grown as a person in ways that continue to astound me!" ~ Chanda Carlson, MA, MCC, Master RIM Facilitator
About RIM Sessions
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Whether you're an executive coach working with a client stuck in indecision, and you're wanting to support clients who have a trauma history or anxiety, without tripping over your therapy boundaries, you're in the right place.

Or, if you are a therapist working with PTSD clients, you can join our growing list of professionals who have expanded their repertoire beyond EMDR, IFS and other tools with RIM.

Regardless, emotions are running the show. We teach how to use RIM within the scope of your own professional area. Because RIM is entirely client-generated, it is safe in a variety of settings and populations, and can be done by coaches, retreat leaders, therapists, and other helping professionals. 

A RIM session can be done over the phone, on Zoom or in person. The client is in charge at all times, and they are actually more aware during a RIM session than they are in their normal daily activities. There is no psychological manipulation or direction from the facilitator, and we do not diagnose or prescribe. 

We teach a complete system that creates emotional safety at all times. It is critical that RIM Facilitators learn the complete RIM system to keep themselves and their clients safe. Because RIM can be used by different professionals, our training addresses how to screen clients and be sure to stay in their own area of expertise and scope of practice.

The client frequently says they feel completely different. Sometimes, they will feel like they time-travelled and created new emotional memories that they intellectually know are pretend but feel real in the nervous system. The science of what's happening confirms that the nervous system treats a well-imagined event similar to a real event. And because this is a whole-brain experience, change becomes much easier and is often instant and permanent.  The science is finally catching up to what Dr Deb has been teaching for years. A 2018 study named "Your Brain on Imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows" done by the University of Colorado supports exactly what Dr. Deb teaches.
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The science of rim
Dr Deb Sandella, RIM Creator
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RIM was created by Dr. Deborah Sandella. Dr. Deb (as she is affectionately called) has a Doctorate in Human Communication and a Masters in Psychiatric Nursing. During the first 25 years of her career, she worked in a myriad of mental health settings from intensive services to private practice and innovated two cutting-edge inpatient community-based programs.

As an award-winning therapist, University Professor and a Best-selling author, she’s the whole package. Dr. Deb initially synthesized aspects of Interactive Guided Imagery, Somatic techniques and other skills she’d found effective; yet, as RIM has evolved “through” her rather than “from” her as she humbly describes, it has developed a life of its own as a revolutionary whole-brain way of naturally processing emotions. ​And neuroscience now confirms what she’s been teaching for decades. Current research from the University of Colorado found that subjects experienced a significant reductions in symptoms of anxiety and depression in as little as a single session. 
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Michael is the 11th of 12 children born into poverty on his abusive, alcoholic father’s junkyard. After losing his mother at age 7 and being adopted by an emotionally abusive aunt and uncle, he spent decades to discover that he is worthy of love and life. Now a six-time successful entrepreneur, Michael uses his well-developed thinking mind in partnership with his heart-centered mission to help others who want to help others. 

Michael is the Vice President, Training and Marketing at The RIM Institute. He served on Jack Canfield’s Train the Trainer team for seven years and is a life-long learner, holding numerous certifications and endless curiosity. His passion is creating safe and sacred spaces with love, connection, and always, a questionable amount of humor. Michael lives in Sarasota with his husband Sal of 34 years and their spoiled labradoodle, Luke.
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“Michael is an excellent trainer, brilliant at creating a deep sense of intimacy and connection among people. Authentic, transparent and dedicated to making a difference in the lives of others.”
~Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach, Creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles.
High Praise for RIM
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​“RIM work produces such immediate and extraordinary emotional and physical results, it may at first appear unbelievable, but I have witnessed it in action in my own life and the lives of hundreds of my students and trainees and can testify to its profound impact.”  ~ Jack Canfield, NY Times bestselling author, Coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Series and The Success Principles, internationally renowned corporate trainer & speaker.
Ground breaking and innovative, best-selling author Dr. Deborah Sandella provides a sacred road map to bypass logic and get to the heart of lingering pain. Using leading-edge research and techniques to shift your body’s experience, you’ll ultimately transcend even the most painful experiences and discover your innate ability to forgive and love. I highly recommend.” ~ Dr. Shawne Duperon, 6-Time EMMY Winner®, Project: Forgive Founder
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​"I am astonished at the power of RIM to so quickly and directly shift stuck emotions and old stories. I feel an obligation to share this with my clients. It needs to be in the world!" ~ Marla Dufek, CPCC, Atlanta, GA
“... a practical, down-to-earth method of realizing the immense potential that lies within everyone. ~ Larry Dossey, MD, Bestselling Author of ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters.