Psychotherapy
“The mind is embodied and not just en-skulled. And the mind is relational not just a product created in isolation. These relationships include the communication an individual has with other entities in the world especially other people”.
Daniel Siegel (author of The Developing Mind)
Therapy helps us develop greater self understanding and self awareness through an understanding of the causes of our unresolved emotional history and life difficulties and an awareness of why we feel the way that we do. Looking at past experiences and emotional patterns can be useful as early experiences can determine how you behave and feel as adults. The brain is an organ of habit and the habits that we have ‘fed’ it tend to stick, for good or bad.
Early relationships with parents or carers often define the relationships we have in later life, both with others as well as with ourselves. Through therapy, we become more conscious of our patterns of behaviour and emotional functioning. This sense of self awareness leads to a greater sense of wellbeing, freedom and personal authority.
During psychotherapy, defences will be confronted and underlying anxieties uncovered that can reveal deep and intensely experienced feelings. Making connections between these defences, anxieties and feelings can develop new 'self-awareness', and a capacity to understand difference in others and in the world in which you live, so that you can begin to accept and be with what might have felt unbearable.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)
"Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – the only one therapy I know of that reaches as deeply into the body and mind and by reaching for both touches the soul". Daniel Siegel
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is an internationally acclaimed body- informed psychotherapy that blends theory and technique from cognitive and dynamic, developmental and attachment theories, with straightforward somatic awareness and movement interventions.
SP is a method that integrates the memory and knowledge of the body (ie implicit memory) with cognitive and emotional processing. It promotes empowerment and competency particularly in the treatment of trauma, complex trauma, PTSD and developmental wounds. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, grounded in modern neurobiological understanding rests on the innate understanding that distress, pain and old memories are unconsciously held in and expressed through the body – as well as in words and can thus manifest differently – in our emotions, behaviour movement, talk, spirit and lives.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can help us on our healing journey and can bridge the gap when traditional “talk” therapy has not helped. SP can help with trauma and attachment related issues such as:
· Anxiety
· Having difficulty concentrating due to fear, upsetting thoughts, or unwelcomed physical (body) sensations
· Intense and disturbing emotional reactions that seem out of place with the present situation
· Post-traumatic stress: abuse, attack, accidents, flashbacks and nightmares. Feeling frozen or stuck in familiar circumstances without understanding why
· Difficulty enjoying life, feeling hopeful, and experiencing pleasure
· Relationship related wounds: neglect, harsh parenting during childhood, divorce, child-parent separations
· Persistent and regular negative thoughts about one’s ability to achieve, be successful and deserving
· Difficulty maintaining a job, a family, friendships and other relationships
· Feeling detached from oneself and the world.
Daniel Siegel (author of The Developing Mind)
Therapy helps us develop greater self understanding and self awareness through an understanding of the causes of our unresolved emotional history and life difficulties and an awareness of why we feel the way that we do. Looking at past experiences and emotional patterns can be useful as early experiences can determine how you behave and feel as adults. The brain is an organ of habit and the habits that we have ‘fed’ it tend to stick, for good or bad.
Early relationships with parents or carers often define the relationships we have in later life, both with others as well as with ourselves. Through therapy, we become more conscious of our patterns of behaviour and emotional functioning. This sense of self awareness leads to a greater sense of wellbeing, freedom and personal authority.
During psychotherapy, defences will be confronted and underlying anxieties uncovered that can reveal deep and intensely experienced feelings. Making connections between these defences, anxieties and feelings can develop new 'self-awareness', and a capacity to understand difference in others and in the world in which you live, so that you can begin to accept and be with what might have felt unbearable.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)
"Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – the only one therapy I know of that reaches as deeply into the body and mind and by reaching for both touches the soul". Daniel Siegel
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is an internationally acclaimed body- informed psychotherapy that blends theory and technique from cognitive and dynamic, developmental and attachment theories, with straightforward somatic awareness and movement interventions.
SP is a method that integrates the memory and knowledge of the body (ie implicit memory) with cognitive and emotional processing. It promotes empowerment and competency particularly in the treatment of trauma, complex trauma, PTSD and developmental wounds. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, grounded in modern neurobiological understanding rests on the innate understanding that distress, pain and old memories are unconsciously held in and expressed through the body – as well as in words and can thus manifest differently – in our emotions, behaviour movement, talk, spirit and lives.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can help us on our healing journey and can bridge the gap when traditional “talk” therapy has not helped. SP can help with trauma and attachment related issues such as:
· Anxiety
· Having difficulty concentrating due to fear, upsetting thoughts, or unwelcomed physical (body) sensations
· Intense and disturbing emotional reactions that seem out of place with the present situation
· Post-traumatic stress: abuse, attack, accidents, flashbacks and nightmares. Feeling frozen or stuck in familiar circumstances without understanding why
· Difficulty enjoying life, feeling hopeful, and experiencing pleasure
· Relationship related wounds: neglect, harsh parenting during childhood, divorce, child-parent separations
· Persistent and regular negative thoughts about one’s ability to achieve, be successful and deserving
· Difficulty maintaining a job, a family, friendships and other relationships
· Feeling detached from oneself and the world.
