Body Psychotherapy emphasizes very basic life processes: how we connect to other people, how we claim for and get what we need, how we build boundaries to define ourselves, how we see ourselves and how others see us, how we organize our potential to get out into the world and how we return to ourselves to rest and replenish our psychic power.

These are basic processes – bodily, emotional, interpersonal and mental– that may have been supported or injured in our lives. They are also processes that any of us can develop further, in the present.
When we incorporate our body in the psychotherapeutic process, we may observe and listen to it and thus reveal parts of the unconscious – since the body holds records of all early experiences. When we enliven, relax, nurture our body, we can awaken parts of our psyche that may have been dormant or unseen. Body work can thus bring us in contact with deeper inner resources and larger primitive and archetypical forces that life offers.

Panagiota Kypraiou MSc Health Psychology, MBPsS - Body & Gestalt Psychotherapist (ECP) - Body Psychotherapy Supervisor - Parents' Education Groups Coordinator https://www.psychotherapeia.net.gr