amanda webb

Crossing The divides/beyond trauma


 Inside you is a world of possibility


A safe, healing, Growing space For Seekers, ARTISTS, individuals, couples, families, adolescents, children And toddlers.

Inside all of us are young, creative, passionate parts of ourselves that are often angry and sad because they have been punished, isolated, suppressed and rejected. As we strive for our goals and dreams and try to reach for our potential in all areas of our life,  sometimes we lock up, fall over and become stuck.  This stuckness is the stickiness of our past shame, grief, fear and rejections. In my sessions with you I will work with you to release that stickiness. As we do so it is likely that those younger parts where we became stuck will come forward to be identified, acknowledged, find attachment, acceptance and to be integrated. As they integrate and you repair your nervous system you will find new ways to be in the world, to reclaim the life energy you shut down to protect yourself and learn to live in your own skin allowing the possibility for your potential to be realized.

Amanda Webb is a Somatic Psychotherapist, expressive and Touch therapist in Brisbane Australia offering Couples, individual, child, adolescent, youth and family therapy. To do this Amanda employs Somatic Experiencing, Psycho-biological  attachment couples therapy (PACT),  Organic Intelligence,  parts work, somatic practice touch work, somatic play therapy, psychodrama and expressive therapies.  She will join with you,  listen,  witness and guide you with curiosity and compassion, as the stories that are beyond words and those disconnected parts of you and their unintegrated resources and strengths,  are metabolized.  She 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

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Adults, Creatives and Carers who are struggling with or have children who are struggling seek out Crossing the Divides Therapy to heal and move forward from  trauma connected to:

• Racial Trauma
• Birth Trauma.
• Pre and perinatal Trauma.
• Developmental Trauma.
• Sexual Assault.
• Communication difficulties.
• Creative blocks.
• Burnout.
• Anger management issues.
• Grief and loss
• Low mood
• Low self-confidence
• Low self-esteem
• Depression and Anxiety
• PTSD
• ASD/ADD/ADHD/OCD
• Relationship difficulties.
• Divorce trauma
• IBS, Chronic Fatigue, fibromyalgia and other debilitating body disorders.

    The following disorders are outside the practices scope:  BPD: DID: Schizophrenia, Antisocial personality disorders, Histrionic personality disorder and bipolar disorder.  While it is true that these conditions come out of complex developmental  and inter-generational trauma the amount of stabilizing required for these disorders requires years of  containment and strengthening.  Consideration will be given where there are other professionals , psychologists or psychiatrists active in the clients support.




For Families, parents, young people, children, toddlers and babies: 

Birth trauma                                                        Pre/perinatal trauma                                            Night terrors                        
Low mood                                                                      Anxiety                                                          Panic attacks
OCD                                                                                 Autism                                                          ADHD/ADD/ODD
Family relationship conflict                              Low self esteem                                                     Friendship problems              
Loss and grief                                                   Separation anxiety                                                  Anger and aggression               
Non compliance                                                    School refusal                                                     Parent/baby bonding/attachment
Parent separation                                      Self-harming and suicidal thoughts                           Gender identity discomfort

“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...

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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