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Witnessing: The Embodied Therapist
As therapists, we serve as witness, and in doing so, material that has been rendered unbearable, becomes tolerable enough to metabolize. What happens when current events rattle us as therapists? Lisa offers a few thoughts on the roles that embodiment, witnessing, and connection play in therapy.
The Grief of Chronic Shame
Grief has potent clinical relevance in the healing of chronic shame. At some point in the treatment, as the client comes to see and better understand the multitude of ways that the unseen hand of chronic shame has formed, guided, and limited their life, both past and present, a real grief and sadness will emerge.
Reflections on therapy, the body and culture
I posed this quote for a free writing exercise one morning at a BBP writing group. What came back was potent, powerful, illuminating, expansive, opening, affirming—you get the drift. We decided to share it…here it goes, you’ll see responses from four different therapists and writers ~ enjoy!
Presence of the Therapist
We invited Dawn Sather, RSW, RCC, RCC-S to offer some of her musings on being a therapist. Dawn has this lovely way of articulating and making simple the complexity of relational somatic practice.
Play Therapy Meets Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy
As a play therapist, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy (SAP) has expanded my practice and become the framework I use to conceptualize my clinical practice.
Orienting to Other
We are living in a traumatised world. Wars, natural disasters, climate change, pandemics, epidemics, starvation, extinctions, create complex situations that interfere with healthy functioning and relational dynamics which then continue to perpetuate trauma.
What Therapists are Saying about the Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy Training
This fall we graduated two cohorts from the Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy 2-year trainings. As we were basking in the glow of the hard and heart work, theirs and ours, we started thinking about getting an insider’s perspective to the training for the BBP blog. We asked for some thoughts, comments, testimonials, whatever people wanted to offer…here’s a few to chew on.
Let’s Talk About, A Not So Private Practice Podcast
I spent my winter holidays mucking about with a few things—catching up on my reading (only fiction over the holidays), clearing out the attic (oh my goodness), making chocolate (with candied oranges and marzipan), taking time with friends, family and feline, and, I had the pleasure of digging into and finishing the A Not So Private Practice podcast (great title!) with hosts Laura Bull and Stephanie Davis, co-owners of Shoreline Counselling (both BBP alumni and facilitators!!!).
This is what I know to be true in my clinical practice: Somatic Attachment Psychotherapists Share…
Read what eight seasoned Somatic Attachment Psychotherapists said about what they know to be true about their clinical practice.