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Crossing The divides/beyond trauma
A safe healing space For individuals, Families, adolescents, children, toddlers & Performers.
Inside all of us are young, creative, passionate parts of ourselves that are often angry and sad because they have been isolated, suppressed and rejected. As we come out of freeze these parts of us come forth to be identified, acknowledged, find attachment, acceptance and to be integrated. As we move through the cycles of activation in our nervous system, learning new ways to cycle through the rapture of life, without collapsing and disappearing, we gently and slowly integrate those splintered off parts of ourselves and grow into the unique and wonderful self we were meant to be.
Amanda Webb is a Counseling Psychotherapist (MA; M.Crim) in Brisbane Australia offering individual, child and family therapy and actor and artist preparation sessions. To do this Amanda employs Somatic Experiencing, Organic Intelligence, parts work, somatic practice touch sessions, somatic play and expressive therapies. She will join with you, listening, witnessing and guiding you carefully, with curiosity and compassion, as the story of your body and your nervous system unfolds. Her attentive, active presence invites the story of the body to emerge in a place of safety.
As regulation and attunement come on-line, your body becomes a resource, helping you differentiate between what is coming from the external environment and what is coming from inside of you. As trust in this inner knowing increases, self confidence improves. Increased resiliency helps navigate stressors related to living well as you re-negotiate earlier painful experiences and extract from them the gifts they bring. As your body, mind and spirit become more unified, your truest potential self emerges with greater ease.
"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
Touch in psychotherapy.
From touch and connection good things grow.
"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
From touch and connection good things grow.
"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
People seek out Crossing the Divides/Beyond Trauma to heal from traumas and accumulated stress associated with:
- Depression and Anxiety
- Grief and loss.
- PTSD
- Complex PTSD, DID, BPD
- Anger management issues.
- Sexual Assault
- Developmental Trauma
- Migraines.
- IBS: fibromyalgia and other debilitating body disorders.
- Caring responsibilities and burnout.
- Accidents.
- Substance abuse and other addictions
- Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicide ideation.
- Autism and sensory processing disorders.
- Domestic Abuse.
- Divorce.
- Childhood disorders such as ADD, ADHD, ODD.
- Attachment disruption and disorders.
- Separation anxiety
- Sleep disturbance.
“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... for a better tomorrow.
Interesting Links
Organic Intelligence® http://organicintelligence.org/
Somatic Experiencing® http://traumahealing.org/
Liberating Awareness https://liberatingawareness.com/
Liberation is Possible http://www.liberationispossible.org/
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