Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP)

Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) is an internal mapping system that helps us to get back home when we have lost our way.  ‘Home’ is described as a embodied place inside ourselves that has a distinctive feel: calm and comfortable.  When we lose our way, it can feel scary and overwhelming.  And can come with a sense of feeling hopeless, anxious and depressed.                 

This is a way to reconnect back to your innate internal guidance system and an embodied core sense of self.  

Even knowing there is a way home can bring relief.

I work with my patients using Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), Satir work and homeopathy to invite change. Clients begin to sleep better, their adrenals begin to work better. They become less exhausted and less emotionally reactive. Relationships improve, life gets better.  Clients build awareness, understanding and compassion and begin to feel more comfortable in their body and in their relationships.

Why consider IBP?

I work with your nervous system. Stress causes cortisol to spike and if there is too much stress, it holds in a pattern. Together we explore your patterns. Studies show that 80% of the population has small ‘t’ trauma, and as adults, our coping and protective layers often no longer serves us. They get in the way in our relationships and can show up as discomfort and pain in the body. No matter what therapeutic path you take, healing is best achieved when individual disease patterns are understood in depth.

Body and somatic pain. If you are have tried and are not getting significant relief from other types of body-centred therapies, you may want to consider what your body is communicating. IBP understands that unconscious protective coping is felt as holding patterns in our muscles, bones and fascia. Learn how to release pain and tension.

Relationship. We exist inescapably in the context of relationships. Explore the underappreciated interpersonal component of our health.

It is known that a person can carry a family problem without knowing where it is coming from. It can be brought to conscious awareness by doing an intergenerational mapping, or what is known in IBP as a Primary Scenario. In this way, a person can not only solve a problem for himself, but for the entire family.

Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, was the first to introduce the concept of miasm, or intergenerational energy patterns or themes. A miasm is an energy pattern which is passed along through the generations. You may have have inherited not only the colour of your eyes from a parent or grandparent, and other things were passed down to you.

IBP sessions can be online or in person

Sessions are 60 minutes long and during our sessions I help you recognize the obstacles and unconscious dynamics in your life and how to work with them.  We may do some breathing or boundary work together.  There is a movement component:  a series of movements called the sustaining integration series which is either done sitting up or on a table to shift your energy and bring a felt sense of wellbeing.

Clients rich work continues to deepen their felt sense of self.

IBP is an awareness tool, and like any skill the more you work with it, the more you get out of it.  If you want to try this work, I would suggest you give yourself at least six sessions to try it out. This would be enough to know if you resonate with the work or not.

If you experience….                                    You can…..

Physical pain and chronic stress       Learn ways to release holding patterns and ongoing stress

Anxiety or panic attacks                                                      Learn to differentiate between if it is happening on the outside, or the

inside and what to do about it.

Relationship struggle Learn what is it to love, and how to receive love

You are dealing with an addiction                                               Find your seat in your authenticity of who you are at core

Depression and low energy                                      Raise your vitality and your self-worth

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Did you know there are 52 kinds of meditation?

The path to awareness can be bumpy, clumsy, and a confusing time. There are many ungrounded, out of body experiences out there to be had. I been studying meditation, energy work and body oriented practices for the past 30 years. I have alot of experience in a variety of meditation and grounding practices and the ones that I have come to prefer are body oriented. Your body contains all the information you need for your healing journey. Your body is a trustworthy guide, and it feels more comfortable when you are in it.

Homeopathy is an body awareness practice. Together with other body oriented experiential practices such as Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), Satir work and other grounding practices, we make our way towards reclaiming wholeness.