What is Body-orientated Psychotherapy?
What is the relevance between the Pysche and the body? 
 

Body-oriented psychotherapy recognises and works with the interconnected spiritual, mental, energetic, physical, emotional levels of ourselves, helping us to move towards integration and wholeness.

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Body psychotherapy was founded by Wilhelm Reich. He was originally a part of Sigmund Freud’s circle. A brilliant and radical man, he was the first psychiatrist to go beyond the mind and understand the importance of working physically with his patients in the 1930’s in Austria and Denmark

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Part of Reich’s achievements included the development of bio-dynamic massage as an affective way to treat mental illness. His discoveries about memory being held in the cells of our body, the relationship between muscular tension and held emotion, amongst many others, were way ahead of his time in terms of western medicine which has tended to split mind and body.

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The neurological research done over the last twenty-five years has validated Reich’s work and deepened our understanding of all forms of mental, emotional and physical suffering as well as the underlaying trauma which has caused it.

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Trauma can leave us disconnected from our bodies. We can suffer from depression and extreme anxiety, be unable to trust people or sustain relationships and be unpredictable in our emotional states. We can also develop physical symptoms such as chronic muscular tension or other medical problems.

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Although talking therapies  can be helpful for many of our psychological problems, with complex trauma any approach which also includes attention to the physical and emotional experience within our bodies is often more effective, especially when the trauma occurred at a pre-verbal stage of development.

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What does a typical session look like?

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How much does it cost?

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How often will I need to come?