Space to Feel
An Excavation of the Emotional Body for Healing
Inspired by the year long training I received with the Compassionate Inquiry team, and Gabor Mate’s teachings, this therapy offers the client a safe space to talk about, feel and process thoughts, triggers and emotions.
You may feel that you had a happy childhood and haven’t undergone any “big T” traumas, but you may also feel that there is something not quite right. You may notice yourself being triggered and having more adverse reactions to situations in your life and the outside world. Unconscious coping mechanisms fuelled by core beliefs, can make us react irrationally in certain situations. It can pull the thorn out from some places where you may have been stuck for a long time. Sitting with and even walking through emotions, rather than suppressing or avoiding them, can bring profound healing. Although it can be intense work, these sessions are client led, with time to unfold at your pace.
I bring thirty years of bodywork practice from the yogic and meditative world, thirteen years of Andean energy work, and a multitude of trainings in various healing therapies. Inner work and healing has been a lifetime passion and has brought me a lot of real life experiences, that I hope will resonate with you.
The Compassionate Inquiry® Approach
Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants.
When clients perceive the therapeutic relationship as a safe container, compassion and curiosity allow them to acknowledge and examine the traumatic events that happened to them as children, recognise the beliefs they internalised, and feel the emotions they suppressed. This contributes to the healing process. Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal. When we can release ourselves from the hold of these stories, a new way of being emerges, leading to spontaneity, choice, expansion and freedom.
A side note …
I do recommend this therapy alongside counselling, somatic/bodywork therapy, art therapy and other forms of healing. For best results, having a continual weekly session, helps to build up a rapport with me to feel safe enough to travel deeper.
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