Breath-Based Embodied Psychotherapy in Brunswick
Experience personalized psychotherapy and counselling sessions in Brunswick designed to enhance self-awareness, process unresolved life experiences, and build healthier relationships. Each session integrates experiential methods focused on mind, body, and spirit to support deep personal transformation.
One on one counselling and psychotherapy sessions aimed at helping you to develop greater awareness, process unresolved life experience and build better relationships.
These sessions may include a Gestalt informed approach, a Process Oriented focus or Transpersonal themed response. They are experiential sessions that incorporate a mind, body and spirit response to the issues that you may bring.
Issues that may be suitable for these types of sessions might include anxiety, depression, physical pain, a desire for psychological integration, shadow work, trauma, grief or simply a desire to explore more deeply.
What is Processwork?
Processwork (Process-Oriented Psychology) is a holistic psychotherapy created by Arnold Mindell. It uniquely combines Jungian dream analysis, somatic body awareness, and transpersonal psychology to foster deeper self-understanding and enhanced relational awareness.
Processwork emphasizes the significance of dreams, body sensations, and symbolic experiences—both conscious and unconscious—to process stored trauma, stress, and emotional tension.
How does Processwork work?
Each Processwork session is different, however a typical session may incorporate a range of different methods to help the opening of a process. A session may include the discussion of a dream, integrated role play or role switching, breath and body awareness work and other experiential processes. Processwork is also keenly interested in as much as what is not being said as what is being said, these secondary or ghost roles often offer an amazing resource for helping us to uncover aspects of an issue that we may not have considered or have been too overwhelmed to explore.
Processwork may also include more traditional counselling approaches as tools for integration and provider better cognitive understanding.
What is a Gestalt Informed approach?
Gestalt Therapy is a fantastic technique that focusses on bringing our attention to what is happening in the here and now - in that trauma and issues are not often what happened to us but how we think about and perceive them now. The event may indeed have been traumatic and have caused long lasting effects, but often It is our memory of the event and how we perceive the event that causes us distress.
By bringing awareness to feelings and physical sensations that arise in the moment of working through an issue we are working directly with the core of the issue. As such Gestalt therapy seeks to avoid abstraction and theorising about an issue but rather asks the question - what is my experience of that issue right here and now.
I incorporate Gestalt therapy into my psychotherapeutic practice by ensuring that each session is highly attuned to physical, emotional and mental responses to the topic of the session in the moment. By attending to the phenomenology (the felt experience of the process), we can bypass overly rationale responses to situations and come to a deeper more cellular understanding.
Incorporating Transpersonal Psychology
and Holotropic breathwork
Holotropic Breathwork, deeply rooted in Transpersonal Psychology, offers profound methods for exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness to support deep psychological integration and healing. Developed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, Holotropic Breathwork facilitates an expansive inner journey, allowing access to unconscious material and activating your innate Inner Healing Mechanism—your natural capacity for self-healing.
Sessions typically involve accelerated breathing patterns, evocative music, focused bodywork, and supportive therapeutic guidance. This approach creates a safe, supportive container for unresolved emotional experiences and stored trauma to surface and resolve naturally. Participants frequently experience increased emotional clarity, release of tension and trauma held in the body, expanded self-awareness, and powerful insights into personal and existential themes.
These breathwork experiences can also include profound encounters with symbolic and archetypal imagery, memories, visions, and transpersonal experiences that extend beyond personal biography, offering an enhanced sense of connection, meaning, and purpose. Holotropic Breathwork sessions are carefully structured to ensure grounded integration, making the insights gained both meaningful and practically applicable to everyday life.
I have been working with people in a one on one capacity since the early 2000's and am excited to be able to add Processwork as a new modality to this toolkit in 2021.
My work as an Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, psychotherapist and men's group facilitator gives me a diverse range of tools to draw upon in my psychotherapy and counselling sessions. I am committed to exploring the embodied and experiential means of bringing awareness to your own inner process as well as your relationship with the world around you.