Therapy
END OF AN ERA / TIME FOR A CHANGE
After a decade of working with trauma as body-oriented psychotherapist, around 15 years in that field first as a client, student, later on as practitioner, teacher and professional, with deep gratitude for the road traveled and the sense of completion I would like to share
I have decided to stop working with trauma and 1:1 sessions as a psychotherapist.
Why therapy?
Even though therapy is becoming more and more popular these days, there are still many taboos about it. So, let me start here: You. Are. Okay.
Therapy is not to fix oneself. In my opinion, a true reason for therapy is when you feel you would like to do something, change something, heal a part of your own psyche that causes you difficulties, or when you’d like to grow.
It is a personal choice to get support to go through the internal process to feel comfortable in our own skin and show up in the world. It is not about making ourselves perfect. It is often about removing what stands in the way of breathing fully, being present, and enjoying the life within and around us - however that manifests for every one of us.
Therapy is about opening up our inner worlds to let go of what does not serve us anymore. It is about bringing in what supports us, becoming more aware of who we are, and bringing it into the relationships we have.
Therapy is about empowerment and bringing new possibilities to make new choices. And having choices is what really gives us responsibility and power.
Therapy can be an open space for you to grow if:
You want to want to work on specific topics or areas of your life
You would like to learn new ways of being, thinking, feeling or living
You would like to enrich your emotional intelligence
You want to explore your consciousness and expansion in different areas of your life,
You wish to live a more present, happier and more fulfilled life
You would like to have a safe space to process and digest, express and make sense of some of
your life experience with compassionate guidance and supportand much more
Therapy is about empowerment and bringing new possibilities to make new choices.
And having choices is what really gives us responsibility and power.
“There is
more wisdom
in your body
than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Integrative Body-oriented Psychotherapy
Integrative body-oriented psychotherapy has been drawing more and more attention over the last 15 years. Even though approaching therapy through the body exists almost a hundred years, this method comes as a blend of years-long research and integration of various psychotherapeutic schools.
Perceiving the body as inseparable from the emotional process and psychological patterns, body-oriented therapy has become an integrative approach to healing.
Giving attention to the body, the sensation within it, and the emotion that follows, this approach supports the emotional process that calls for embodied expression. While using breath, voice, and movement, this process enables suppressed and unconscious emotions and states to emerge.
Body-oriented psychotherapy in this way supports the expression of withheld emotions and impulses. It also provides a new positive experience to the ones that caused those states in the first place. A crucial step of the process is taking this experience outside of the walls of therapy, embodying it, and integrating it into everyday life.
Beginnings, endings and follow-ups
Deciding to start a psychotherapeutic process is the first step. Once you do that, you book a consultation, which is our first meeting. At that session, we get to know each other, talk about your intentions, about practical aspects of therapy and make an overview of possible directions. After that, you take your time to decide whether you would like to continue.
Like any other relationship, a therapeutic one takes time to be built. Yet, the trust and healing that come through that connection go beyond the four walls of therapeutic practice as you take that experience into other relationships that you have.
The length of your process is up to you. As every cycle comes to completion, so does being in therapy. I’m happy when you want to quit. That means our job is done. It is normal and natural that the process comes to a completion, that you feel you have integrated the work you came for and that you would like to continue on your own without further exploration. That is perfectly okay.
It is optimal to have a few sessions to complete the process. After all, it takes some time to witness the richness of the path we walked together, honor the changes in your life that happened during this period, once again remind yourself about the resources, and set the intention for the road ahead. Know that there is always support and that you can always call for a follow-up.
testimonials.
‘Therapy gives me a safe space to expand my capacity – it is where I am supported to meet my most uncomfortable feelings and resistances. In this place, I can go through it and keep on growing. That hour of our session within me always moves things I would be otherwise carrying for who knows how much longer.’
-K.
’With every therapy session, I am closer and closer to my goal – that is to be present here and now. Therapy helped me understand the background of my actions and helped me understand the nature of relationships
with people who are close to me.’
-A.