Care for the Carer Counselling Services

Description

"Integrating the mind and the body to create change."
I mainly use the clinical intervention called Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP). IBP is a body focused counselling modality that integrates other counselling approaches and theories such as Gestalt therapy, self psychology, object relations theory, and psychodynamic therapy. Within this basic philosophy of integration and body awareness, IBP works within the following principles: • that our feelings and thoughts are also felt in the body and vice versa • that everyone has a Primary Scenario which consists of our first few years of childhood and our family history within that period. During our early childhood, we develop patterns of interaction that consciously or unconsciously repeat themselves in our current interpersonal relationships • that we are holistic beings comprised of body, self (mind), and soul (spirit) and we can integrate all 3 of these to create desired changes in our lives. If we want to change the way we think about something, we must also internalize that change within our body • that we are all capable of transpersonal or spiritual experiences even if we are not religious • that we all have a core self or core wisdom that we may or may not be aware of and we can connect to this core wisdom when we are feeling uncertainty in our lives Although IBP is body focused, it is not a "hands-on" approach such as massage therapy or chiropractic care; however, it is more than sitting in a chair and talking. A typical IBP session involves both the client and therapist sitting on mats on the floor. The client is then encouraged to pay attention to what is going on for her/him in that moment and to connect those thoughts and feelings to his/her body's experience.