TMT INTENSIVE
OUTPATIENT THERAPY

Our comprehensive Trauma Management Therapy (TMT) Outpatient Program is in direct partnership with UCF RESTORES as an intensive two-week outpatient program located in Orlando, Florida at the Rosengren Trauma Clinic at the Univeristy of Central Florida. This program is an intensive and comprehensive treatment program for PTSD. Individualized exposure therapy session, often augmented by virtual reality, occur every morning, and group treatment occurs every afternoon.  

This program is of no cost to our Michigan Volunteer Firefighters and First Responders. The cost of the outpatient program is free and MI RESTORES covers the cost of a local hotel during treatment and will help make arrangements.

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The approach has proven to be immensely successful for those in need, with 66% of participants with combat-related PTSD and 76% of first responders no longer meeting the diagnostic criteria for PTSD following treatment. 

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This program utlizes the core elements of individualized exposure therapy to address fear and anxious arousal and group treatment to address anger, sleep, guilt, depression, and social isolation.

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Exposure Therapy

UCF RESTORES’ evidence-based treatment relies heavily on exposure therapy, which is designed to get a patient in touch with the traumatic elements (sometimes called triggers) that elicit their current fear and distress. Through exposure therapy, therapists work to “re-train” patients’ brains to understand that those triggers (sights, sounds and smells they encounter in daily life and remind them of the trauma) no longer signal that a traumatic event is going to occur. With repeated sessions, these triggers lose their ability to elicit fear and distress. The treatment is rooted in scientific studies demonstrating that repeated contact with these elements (without the occurrence of the negative event) leads to the reduction of fear – a process known as habituation.

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Exposure therapy may be accompanied by virtual reality, designed to increase immersion with traumatic cues, or through in-vivo exposure, using physical spaces that are (or closely resemble) the place where the traumatic event occurred. All exposure treatment is individualized for each patient’s unique traumatic experience.

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Group Therapy

UCF RESTORES’ group therapy sessions address behaviors and emotions, beyond fear, which often accompany PTSD, such as sleep disturbances, depression, anger, guilt and social isolation. Each session is structured to provide the education, skills and practical applications needed to assure the most positive treatment outcome.