Connecting to our bodies
Body Psychotherapy is a complementary healthcare approach to managing persistent and unrelenting issues with your body and mind, examples of these issues might be recurring throat infections, performance anxiety, stomach and digestive issues or unexplained reflux.
Treatment can be done in-person or delivered online as the principal component of the work is not about the touch, but how we connect to our own bodies.
Often people come to this work because they have tried everything to help their problem This usually includes numerous hospital visits, massage, physiotherapy/osteopathy, acupuncture, nutritional advice or medications and their issues persist.
In this case, your issues may well be psychologically rooted, and a period of integration needs to occur.
Specialising in Medically Unexplained Symptoms including…
Chronic Pain
Whether back pain, neck pain or headaches, the body can store our emotional world in our anatomy. Beginning to connect how your body feels with how you feel is an important first step in the reconciliation of health and wellness.
You can follow a free Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for lower back pain here.
Reflux
If you suffer from recurrent episodes of reflux or difficulty with heartburn, chest pains or a sour or acidic taste in your mouth, you may well be experiencing reflux. Under stress, the gut and the associated systems react and begin a self-protective mechanism of burning from the inside out.
You can see my research articles on reflux here.
Voice Problems
Integrating your voice to be back inside of you, rather than distant from you, is the philosophical underpinning of this most important work.
People with voice problems often say to me that they feel as though they have a new voice, or that it isn’t somehow their own. Sometimes they are grieving the loss of their healthy voice, or mourning the loss of a future that has yet to occur like performing in their dream role.
An important question to ask ourselves is: how deeply and how safely can you and I explore what is really going on for you?
The focus of our work is just that, fostering a meaningful relationship where you are really heard, something particularly important when working with voice problems.
Meaningful psychotherapy is about both being heard, but also being able to speak out. The process can be existentially painful, difficult, joyous, complicated and many more feelings.
You can see my research articles on voice problems here.
