What Is Body Psychotherapy?

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Body Psychotherapy includes the body as well as the mind in therapy.  It is a method that deals with the whole person, integrating the body, mind, emotions, and spirit and it is a method that brings about profound and lasting change.  The success of body psychotherapy comes from recognizing that our being is grounded in the body and that ignoring the body is to have very limited lasting success in treatment of psychological pain. 

There are a few basic premises in body psychotherapy.  Those being:

1. Any event that occurs impacts our whole being-physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual.

2. Humans are unique energy systems and this energy is the form and expression of aliveness.  Body psychotherapy pays detailed attention to human energy.

3. Feeling and expression are seen as prime components of healthy functioning.  Breath and movement re-establish the healthy flow of energy in the body.

4. The body can be divided into energetic segments which store different memories, emotions, issues, and traumas.  Body psychotherapy can reaccess any event that happened to our body, all the way back to conception.

Sharon Stopforth, MSW, RSW

Certified IBP Practitioner

Serenity Now Wellness Centre

501-30 Ave. N.W.

Calgary, Alberta T2M 2N7

Phone: (403)454-7600

Email: sharon_stopforth@hotmail.com