We are relational beings longing for connection, love and belonging. We are also wired for threat and survival,with contradictory pulls towards and away from closeness. We may have needs, desires and wants and at the same time a conflicting need to protect against expressing these feelings.
Embodied-Relational Psychotherapy
Therapy is a journey - we are listening with the whole body
It takes courage to pause, to turn towards the inner life with all its longings, desires and discomfort, to begin to listen deeply to the subtle double messages in our conversations with ourselves and each other.
A relational embodied approach begins with a deep trust in the unfolding of the process, whatever is happening in your life. However messy or uncomfortable, this is an endeavour to grow and change.
Unravelling the wisdom in the body
The body is a pathway into our aliveness and wild nature. It is also the seat of our belonging to life itself. It also holds the memories and trauma within the muscles, tissues, cells and bones.
The body is nature and it knows the way back to reconnection. In embodied relational work we are curious as to how the body wants to express or repress sensations and emotions. We may explore amplifying movements and tensions.
In embodied work we may explore sound, voice, touch, how the breath is held, and movement. These explorations are also relational and you are never pushed to do anything - we are slowly being guided by what is right for you.
The format of the sessions
Sessions last 60 minutes and my fees are (Sliding scale) £55-£70 per session.
I offer some limited concessionary places for low-wage
I work Online and In Person from Downderry, Cornwall ONLINE via Zoom SESSIONS
Most of my work now is online and I have found working online to be a profound deep process in which we can work together, incorporating both the body and relationship.
If you would like to explore working together you can
Book a Full 60minutes in-person session for which I charge my full fee
The relationship between us is central to the way I work.
It can become the solid ground of new ways of relating with yourself and others. Together we begin to create a space in which you can bring yourself in an honest open way and share what is uncomfortable.
Sometimes what can happen is that whatever we are struggling with in our lives can become part of what is difficult in the therapeutic relationship. For example, perhaps it’s hard to get close to anyone or be yourself, or you find it hard to talk about your emotional world. It is likely that these elements of what is happening in your life can show up in our relationship. Rather than this being a hindrance to the process, it actually becomes a beautiful opportunity to working deeply with the issues that brought you to therapy in the first place.
As human beings we long for connection and love. Yet often through rejection, past hurt and childhood attachment patterns we can feel unsafe to be close to another.
Yet these defensive strategies, although they were natural and needed to protect you, they also became the very thing that created the separation from deeper satisfying fulfilling relationships.
Our relationship can become a vessel in which we can untangle the contradictions of what it means to be human in a body with another. We slow down and move into being together, noticing the subtle layers and dialogues that can go unnoticed in everyday communication.
We are both changed by the journey together
