WHEN IS IT A GOOD TIME TO RECEIVE
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY & BODYWORK?

Many different situations motivate clients to reach out for relief. Integrative Therapy is especially useful if you’re experiencing:

  ·  Lack of focus
  ·  Lethargy
  ·  Work- and family-related pressure
  ·  Anxiety brought on by crisis or trauma
  ·  Depression
  ·  Physical pain, illness or disease
  ·  A desire to integrate your healing beyond talk therapy

Integrative Therapy can also be used to support wellness before problems become overwhelming and to maintain optimal function. Consistent sessions offer the most thorough support, and can foster long-term growth while working on complex issues. Single sessions rejuvenate the body and mind, restoring balance and ease.

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” 
― Rainer Maria Rilke

MODALITIES

Psychotherapy is most commonly known as therapy that supports individuals with concrete feedback as they work through environmental (work, school, family) or personal (sadness, anxiety, stress) problems. Counseling is empathic by nature:  talk, conversation, and reflection are all part of counseling process.

Polarity draws from the logic of many systems (including the Ayurvedic chakra system) and integrates emotion, thought and physical sensation. A variety of touch stimulates and balances the body's energy fields and pathways. Deep pressure, gentle holding, rocking and even verbal dialogue assist clients to harmonize physical, mental and emotional experience. 


Somatic Experiencing (SE) "is a potent psychobiological method for resolving trauma symptoms and relieving chronic stress. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma." from http://www.traumahealing.org/

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy fortifies the central nervous system, focusing on the membranes and fluid which coat, protect and flow around the spinal cord and brain. This subtle work facilitates the system’s own healing intelligence. Guided by the practitioner’s gentle contact, clients achieve balance and restore energy. 

Realization Process is rooted in the ancient philosophies and practices of Buddhism and Hinduism. Combined with relational and somatic psychotherapy, it is applied as Spiritual Psychotherapy. Developed by Judith Blackstone, Realization Process a form of embodiment meditation that uses awareness-heightening exercises in order to deepen self-contact and increase the clarity of connection with others. 

Reiki directs healing energy through light touch, on or off the body, assisted by meditative techniques.

 

Many of us are conditioned to deal with our challenges alone.  While we can do substantive work on our own, it is often relationships with others that launch our next step.  


Maya Geyer, LCSW, RPP, LMT     917.545.0937    maya@integratedbodymind.com