Body-Centered Therapy

Our bodies hold great wisdom; we must therefore speak the body’s language to access that knowledge.

Life is like a dance.  The floor is our direct experience and our partner is life.  We can either attempt to control life by pushing away certain difficult emotional states or thoughts that result in a battle with life or we can hide, avoid and disconnect from life and life goes elsewhere.  Ideally we trust in our partner of life and flow with it as pain, difficult/stressful times come and go and so do joyful, happy, inspiring times come and go.

Body-centered psychotherapy, also known as somatic psychotherapy, encompasses a variety of approaches to acknowledge the importance of the body in forming our experiences in life.  Feelings, sensations, thoughts, actions, body armour, images and impulses that arise from the body are an integral part of our experience of life that we are often not attentive to.  Working with the body in therapy opens up a multitude of options for understanding, experiencing and gaining insight.   Body-centered therapy helps to bring attention to inner states while finding safety and security in being embodied.  Embodiment is the experience of an inner presence in the here and now.

I works with the unique facets of each person to draw on their inner strengths, creativity and self expression to help develop a more balanced, integrated and content life. With a background in contemporary dance, movement therapy, yoga, authentic movement, embodiment practices, mindfulness meditation, Alexander technique and Feldenkrais, I brings a wealth of knowledge, insight, sensitivity and experience.

 

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