Therapist Profile

My Approach to Helping

Integrative Mindbody Therapy (IMT) was created by me as an integration and amalgamation of different approaches and disciplines to therapy and human development. There are three main pillars on which this work is based: 1. Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) & NLP Psychotherapy 2. Bodywork and Body-Psychotherapy 3. Psychotherapy (humanistic, psychodynamic, and Self-Relations) The Hypnotherapy & NLP influences manifest in that, during the therapeutic process we are likely to be working with different levels of communication verbal, nonverbal, unconscious, field - trancework will be a major tool to facilitate going inside and exploring inner landscapes. We will continuously endeavour to think outside of the box, helping you to find new choices, and new ways of being. It also means that IMT emphasises experiential, rather than conceptual learning and development and that unconscious processes are seen as important allies and central to the work. As a client, you will discover the pattern of how you create your reality, and be faced with choices regarding these patterns. The Bodywork and Body-Psychotherapy influences contribute to the richness of nonverbal communication and the conduct of IMT. A major aim of therapy is expanding awareness, expression and communication through the bodymind youll be encouraged to listen to, understand and act upon your bodyminds messages, opening to even more aliveness. Body-psychotherapy elements may also include being it rather than talking about it, recognising that our past is relevant inasmuch as it is alive in us, and therefore we can work with past patterns while emphasising experiential processes. Integrating body-psychotherapy understandings also results in continuous use of body rhythms breath, pulse, charge, emotions and thoughts to facilitate freeing your spontaneity, containment and ability to be present to yourself while connecting with another as well. Bodywork elements may include touch either to support and hold, to challenge or to structurally create more space and help you inhabit yourself more fully. These can include deep massage strokes. However, the main impact of bodywork and body-psychotherapy on IMT is in the basic premise that the bodymind is an organic unit, and the physical, mental and psychological dynamics are all intertwined. Our organism strives for aliveness, integration, agility and expression and we will work towards this. The psychotherapeutic influence mainly includes psychodynamic, humanistic and Self-Relations psychotherapy. Thanks to these influences, IMT places much importance and focus on the therapeutic relationship, together with an awareness that, within the therapeutic fields, all the patterns past and present will manifest. This presents us with an opportunity to work with, and bring about change and acceptance to the building blocks that made us who we are. It means that safety of boundaries, clear frame of work and a space of reality, authenticity and humanity are being created and encouraged. Within this space, we are together working for you. I cannot fix you or change you and I will never know you more than you know yourself, but I am a curious and willing explorer, and I will walk with you into the unknown without shying away, and encourage both the light and shadow to be owned and shown. Psychotherapeutic influences recognise that relationship is a basic human pattern, and we will work towards cultivating an honest and kind way of relating to yourself and others. Other influences for the creating of IMT include stress-management, Gestalt, Provocative Therapy, Systemic Therapy, Jungian Analysis, Chinese Medicine, Storytelling, Shamanism, Buddhism, Judaism, Castanedas Don-Juan, Eastern & Western philosophy, philosophy of science, literature and music.