Body Psychotherapy
Suzanne K. LaCombe Ed.D., R. Psych.
I can't tell you the number of times I have looked back in gratitude for how body psychotherapy has changed my life let alone my practice. It's a huge resource and in my view, the fastest way to create change in the brain.
The use of the body as a resource in psychotherapy and counseling is greatly underutilized. Yet, it is through the body that we can reap the rewards of emotional stability in both mind and spirit.
"Where are all the body psychotherapists?"
Yes, well that's a question I'd like to know the answer to. I can tell you this much. Becoming a body psychotherapist will challenge and change the student. To do it well, requires doing one's own work.
Maybe...just possibly, some therapists don't want to change. Why would that be? Here's my take on it.
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Yes, I would very much like to know the answer to that question too. It’s obvious, having taken ideas learned from your BCP and into my own (conventional) therapy, (and life in general!) that it helps. Of this there is no doubt at all. However I can’t help feeling things would go along better, more completely if all (?) therapists were even partially Body Based and (right) Brain Wise – much as I like my therapist and feel more and more comfortable with her. My therapist is treating me with Humanistic Therapy, mixed with Transpersonal, so she is not really a person leaning towards Neuroscience/Science I don’t think! Not that sort of a person. But she is very open to thoughts about it and anything that helps me. And Humanistic/Transpersonal after my last frightening and painful therapy is wonderful.
So I guess in my case the many things learned from your BCP Suzanne is better than nothing at all, and I am grateful to be learning what I am and I continue to thank you.
Yours
Victoria
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