Body-centred practices
Using the body’s wisdom in therapy
I have training in, and a deep passion for, body-centered practices such as mindfulness, focussing, Hakomi method and breathwork. I have also spent many years exploring how to process through my own body using improvised dance and yoga.
The body holds an incredible amount of wisdom that can be accessed through these practices, which I believe contributes greatly to a therapy process. The practices often facilitate us to undercut unhelpful stories and analyses we hold about ourselves, allowing us to gain more traction on the heart of our experience and expand our conscious understanding of what is alive in us. These tools can also be used to help us learn to better regulate our nervous system and to process challenging emotional/psychological material, thereby facilitating us to come to a place of increased equanimity and balance.
I believe that combining these body-centered tools with talking therapy creates more wholistic and direct connection to our experience of self, unconscious material, and emotional world.