Amanda Webb
Body & Dyadic Development Family Psychotherapist &
DRAMA THERAPIST


I will join with you,  listen,  witness and guide you with curiosity and acceptance, empathy and playfulness, as the stories that are beyond words and those disconnected parts of you and their unintegrated resources and strengths,  are metabolized.  I will invite this story of the psyche to emerge in a place of safety.





"If you bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will destroy you.
—THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS”
― Peter A. Levine

Regulating Touch Practice In Psychotherapy

The body holds the answer to your healing.



"Psychoanalytic tradition teaches us that using touch to satisfy a patient’s desire for the missing comfort of the mother fosters a

clinging infantile dependency, and serves as a stimulant for Oedipal fantasies".  Dr. Aline LaPierre



From a Somatic Practice Perspective...



"Avoiding safe, nurturing touch 
is a cruel re-creation of the original relational trauma, 
a repeat of the experience of physical neglect or rejection 
undergone by an individual as a child. "
   
Dr. Aline LaPierre

“How do you quiet down the frightened animal inside of you? The answer to that is probably in the same way that you quiet down babies. You quiet them by holding and touching them, by being very much in tune with them, by feeding and rocking them, and by very gradual exposure to trying new things.”

• Bessel van der Kolk, MD

• "The healing journey was never meant to be embarked on alone"...(Peter Levine)


• Lets do it together... building toward resilience and transformation...







• Amanda's Trainings and Institutions
  

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Interesting Links

Organic Intelligence®  http://organicintelligence.org/
Somatic Experiencing®  http://traumahealing.org/
Liberating Awareness https://liberatingawareness.com/
Liberation is Possible http://www.liberationispossible.org/

Nurturing resilience somatic (touch) practice with Kathy Kain

stephenporges.com/images/neuroception.pdf


Grief and Loss: a new approach that moves beyond the idea of closure.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rCfXSdYPE