Somatic psychotherapy is an experience-emphasis process, in contrast to talking only *about* things. Your well-being depends upon understanding the reciprocal relationship between your thoughts and your body's process. As we attend to the matters you bring to therapy, I will help you to have more awareness of the ways your mind is continuously expressing itself through your whole body, not just your brain.
Through increasing somatic awareness, you will discover exactly how your subconscious beliefs that are driving your life are either working for you or working against you. As we discover what is inhibiting you from a fuller range of experience and expression, I will guide you to learn new options for living, based on what you desire most for yourself.
Through increasing somatic awareness, you will discover exactly how your subconscious beliefs that are driving your life are either working for you or working against you. As we discover what is inhibiting you from a fuller range of experience and expression, I will guide you to learn new options for living, based on what you desire most for yourself.
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Moment to moment we oscillate through cycles of expansion, contraction, and pauses. Through bodymind states such as trust, joy, curiosity, and forgiveness, we expand into life. We return to neutral when we slow down, pause, and exhale. Alternating expansion and contraction is how the muscles move the body, the body moves nutrients from one part to another, the eyes adjust to light, the heart circulates blood.
I began studying somatic psychotherapy in 1997. In 2002 I completed a Master's degree in somatic psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. That summer I also met Bill Bowen, who would be my teacher for 14 years, until his death in 2016. His teachings, called Psycho-Physical Therapy, are the heart and foundation of my work.
I am free to create a new stable pattern, but once it is established, I am not free to dismiss it with a snap of my fingers. I do not have to consciously think about what to do with all of my muscles; on the other hand, my muscles are not necessarily doing what I consciously think.
Four years ago I wrote an 11,500 word essay for the Journal of Holistic Psychology Vol III, "The Enigma of Changing Habits - You Have to Get Somatic" that highlighted just a few of the many intriguing aspects of Job's Body.It also introduced a hypothesis developed by crossing Juhan's Job's Body with Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.
Four years ago I wrote an 11,500 word essay for the Journal of Holistic Psychology Vol III, "The Enigma of Changing Habits - You Have to Get Somatic" that highlighted just a few of the many intriguing aspects of Job's Body.It also introduced a hypothesis developed by crossing Juhan's Job's Body with Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.
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Athena Catz
Aug 12, 2021
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Terrible experience with this so called therapist. Completely unprofessional, inappropriate, dishonest, uncaring and really messed me up way more than she ever helped me. She makes false promises and she has even admitted she’s acted in a potentially unethical way. She is extremely codependent and messed me up a lot with my own codependency issues. I've had to spend years working through the damage she caused me. Also, about 30-40% of each session I had with her she was justtalking about herself and her own problems. I seriously know more about her than most of my friends and family. Please
Shternie Wuensch
Jul 25, 2013
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