Embodying Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy has a long tradition of helpfulness to clients, and trains practitioners in a broad and useful skillset.  Despite this, many therapists notice that some symptoms and conditions are intractable.  Many of us have noticed the absence of attention to the body in our training and our practices. Adding the body through body awareness, knowledge of the nervous system and use of somatic interventions adds dimension and fullness to psychotherapy, enhancing our effectiveness as therapists and supporting greater feelings of agency in our clients.  Because of this I developed Embodying Psychotherapy for psychotherapists and related disciplines to make greater use of embodiment in their therapy practices.  This brings together a number of skills to add to Psychotherapists already significant skill set.  Therapists can learn or deepen their knowledge of the nervous system and make use of bodily experience to access and transform psychological states.
Why add Embodiment to your Psychotherapy Techniques?
Adding somatic awareness and technique as well as embodied awareness of adult attachment strategies deepens psychotherapeutic work and meets clients at the level of the body and emotion, and provides an opportunity to sense and relate to implicit knowledge and strategies.  This aids clients to deepen and expand their relationship to themselves, have better understanding and resolution of symptoms, increase their self-care and their sense of agency in relation to themselves. With traditional talk therapy, at times symptoms lessen but do not resolve.  Greater embodiment allows you and your client to access component and supporting states of feelings and attitudes, supporting greater awareness and shift

Training

By adding aspects of somatic work, inner relationship focusing, adult attachment work and relational skills, psychotherapists can broaden their skill set.  I offer trainings in Embodying Psychotherapy through Workshops, Group and Individual Consultation.

What to Expect

Workshops allow you to add to your skill set, expanding your knowledge and then demonstrating the use of these techniques and skills. These workshops address common presenting problems and concerns of our clients, enhancing what you know by adding a significant skill set.

Specifics

1 day workshops meet from 9:30 to 5:30. A schedule for a typical 1 day workshop includes:
9:30 to 12 Lecture
12 to 1: Demonstration
1 to 2:30 Lunch
2:30 to 4 Lecture
4:00 to 5:00 demonstration
5:00 to 5:30 questions and wrap-up
A typical 2 day workshop schedule:
9:30 to 12 Lecture
12 to 1: Demonstration
1 to 2:30 Lunch
2:30 to 3:30 Lecture
3:30 to 5:00 Experiential Exercise
5:00 to 5:30 questions and wrap-up
Day 2
9:30 to 12 Lecture
12 to 1: Demonstration
1 to 2:30 Lunch
2:30 to 4:00 Experiential Exercise
4:15 to 5:30 Case Consultation

How To Start

The component parts to Embodying Psychotherapy include Embodying Psychotherapy Workshops, Individual and Group Case Consultation, and can be enhanced with Somatic Experiencing training and Inner Relationship Focusing Training. Prior experience with an experiential model is an asset.

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