A Sampling of Body Psychotherapy Methods to Overcome Relationship Problems
Can Body Psychotherapy Resolve Sexual and Relationship Issues?
Body psychotherapy uses somatic experiencing, metaphors and body image work, empathic listening and feedback, touch, body/mind/spirit awareness and connection, mental health skills, and a wide variety of the best techniques from Eastern and Western teachings, psychology, body therapy and transpersonal revelations and insights. Can Body psychotherapy resolve sexual and relationship issues? You be the judge!
Rubenfeld Synergy Method – developed by Ilana Rubenfeld
RSM helps us learn to listen to the body, become aware of habitual patterns and tensions and decode their messages empowering us to make concrete improvements in our daily lives and relationships. The uniqueness of Rubenfeld Synergy lies in the use of talk and touch together. Touch heightens awareness, both emotionally and physically, and allows us to explore levels that are difficult to access through talk alone.
Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) – founded by Dr. Jack Lee Rosenberg, further developed with Diana Asay, a Jungian Analyst, and Dr. Marjorie Rand.
IBP offers the therapist and client a unique way of tracking body-mind interruptions to the somatic core sense of self, life’s most basic guidance system. Psychological interruptions include emotional patterns and beliefs developed in early childhood that habitually distort present experiences (Primary Scenario), our protective defenses (Character Style) and how we abandon our core selves for love and approval (Agency). Without knowing the difference between psychological interruptions and core self, we cannot trust our intuition, our inner voice.
Your inner voice is essential in exploring an equally important aspect of life’s journey, the human existential dilemma — the issues of existence. We all must face life’s unanswerable questions: aloneness, death, life, impermanence, aging, authenticity, creativity, integrity, infinity and more. In other words, all sorts of things happen in life. It is not what happens to you, but how you deal internally with what happens that determines your well being and quality of life. IBP teaches you how to come from the wisdom of your core with heightened aliveness in every aspect of your life.
Core Energetics, created by John Pierrakos, MD
John Pierrakos, MD, founder and creator of Core Energetics