"Sandy Riggin is a counselor and abuse survivor. During her personal journey of healing, she discovered a method of recovery that leads to resolution of childhood abuse. She combines traditional cognitive therapy with a new counseling paradigm called Cognitive Emotional Restructuring Therapy that addresses the abuse itself on an emotional level. CERT helps abuse survivors change the messages they give themselves and shows them how to face the abuse. She takes them back to the abuse itself and to who they were as children when the abuse was happening. She teaches them how to embrace their inner children, emotionally restructure what happened and to forgive their perpetrators. She teaches them how to speak their truth and to resolve the abuse on an emotional level. She completes the circle by reintegrating the cognitive tools so abuse survivors can help their inner children to grow up emotionally."