Therapy and Bodywork Combined

Limiting core beliefs/physical symptoms and blocks to vitality—two sides of a coin. Imprints in muscle memory from shock, trauma and developmental stress keep us safe but defended, living in the past. Working with the body and the mind together makes for powerful access to the material that we can otherwise talk circles around but never seem to shift.

Touch focuses awareness on the felt-sense of self that trauma tends to make fuzzy, anxious and confused. It offers a more embodied approach, so it adds clarity and grounding. Touch also can fill developmental needs that were missing—needs for witnessing, support, compassion, presence, containment, empowerment. Each of these needs involves a different sort of intervention.

These sessions require clients to have a good sense of their boundary—can distinguish between self and others. The client is always clothed and the touch is always non-sexual in nature. The touch happens either on a massage table or seated in a chair. The client is always empowered to choose whether touch is involved, how long it will last, and empowered to end touch as they choose.