I work with touch, movement and body attention – and I believe in embedding these experiences in the structured frame of a clear goal and specific steps towards that goal.
Much of my work is based on the Grinberg Method, which provides just that. My work is also influenced by my studies of psychology, as well as different kinds of meditation, communication tools, dance and movement. I am a member of the collectief alternatieve therapeuten (catcollectief.nl).
My individual sessions usually happen as a series of one-hour meetings. In the first one, we define your goals and explore possible avenues of reaching it.
From then on, each meeting follows the direction you have decided on, and I systematically teach you different tools of creating change in the session and embedding it in your everyday life. Your role in this is very active: You are asked to be attentive between sessions, sometimes do exercises or think about specific topics, always noticing changes and reporting back to me about what was good or bad, easy or difficult so that I can adapt my next steps accordingly.
Also, it’s your job to enjoy this 🙂 Sessions teach you changes and provide practical tools, but they also give your body exactly what it needs – life and activation, or the opportunity to finally unwind, or a chance to deal with an old feeling that has been dammed up for a long time. These sensations and experiences are often deeply pleasurable, they “feel right”, or like a great relief.
By allowing yourself to enjoy them, you are deepening your learning process.
