Body Psychotherapy

Developed by Wilhelm Reich, Body Psychotherapy uses various techniques to facilitate recovery, including talk therapy. It also guides the client into a deeper awareness of their emotional and behavioral state while at the same time encouraging them to tune in to their own body’s physical responses. This form of therapy is helpful for the treatment of many emotional and physical issues, including:

Integrative Methods of Body Psychotherapy

Body Psychotherapy marries sensorimotor tracking, movement, and degree concentration together where they can be more closely examined through processes that allow the client to develop a keener sense of physical awareness and replace unwanted and unproductive patterns with new and more beneficial behaviors that will ultimately heal the whole person.

Body Psychotherapy is a definitive method of psychotherapy that involves a unique theory of somatic healing. This method considers the mind-body interrelations and connectivity in order to heal the whole person. It incorporates a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic systems and integrates a personality theory, sources of origin for psychological disruptions and focuses on the developmental model throughout the therapeutic process. This technique is recognized as not only a therapy, but also an art form and a science. Its roots grow from the foundations of perinatal studies, neonatology, neurophysiology, ethology, developmental psychology, anthropology and biology, among others.

Body Psychotherapy utilizes various techniques and relies on breath, physical touch, and movement as its primary tools. It has several parallels to other body therapies and somatic methods in that they incorporate touch and motion, but they are distinctly different from the discipline of body therapy. Body Psychotherapy recognizes that the whole person is a result of equal contributions and facilities provided by the mind and the body as interactive and interrelated aspects of the person as a whole.