What is Psychotherapy? Generally, it’s a longer-term approach whose intention is to discover the origins of our physical, emotional, or moral injuries, experienced with or without awareness, when very young or older. Neuroscience has proved through neuroimaging, that chronic or traumatic experiences and associated emotions can remain lodged (not processed in our reasoning) in our nervous systems. This is a normal and hardwired survival response in humans and mammals. In psychotherapy there is utmost understanding, compassion and respect for how we have adapted in threatening situations in the past and how is translates to our lives and relatioships in not so favorable ways.

Armed with current proven neuroscientific knowledge and skills-based techniques, we can confidently journey deeper into our psyche and discover why some feelings come over us that we have no words for or seemingly no control over, capture those moments of inexplicable fear that grip us, and uncover the silent forces that cause us to withdraw, not stand out and avoid. We can get to the bottom of those impulses, voices and beliefs that seem to take over and ‘drive our bus, and truly understand in the felt sense and in our developing wisdom, that they are the voices and narratives (often developed from very young) that by counter intuitive and complex design, protect our systems from ever experiencing unbearable emotions, yet still find a way to show themselves, vent, escape. This is what we want to heal.

Psychotherapy while firstly ensuring you have somatic skills onboard such as specific breathing and grounding practices, coupled with understanding Your Window of Tolerance, will prepare you for experiencing strong emotions without being swept up by them. This is termed Resilience. You will gain the ability to halt autonomic reactions, while you safely unburden and heal your nervous system. The energy bound up survival patterns will no longer fuel unwanted ways of being. Bound energy that shows up as tension, pain, depression, gut wrenching anxiety and rage is transformed into life energy, returned to your system. You will feel lighter without the burdens and more alive than ever.