As a process work therapist my role is to assist and enhance awareness to uncover your emerging healing process. Your unique process has vast intelligence and communicates in a diverse range of ways including verbal language, images, dreams, movement, and body sensations or symptoms. By directing awareness to and following these signals we allow solutions, wisdom & transformation to naturally arise, which we then integrate into everyday life, a more whole sense of self and a deeper understanding of our relationships.
I hold a compassionate, trauma informed & non-judgemental space.
“I am yet to meet a guru or wise, enlightened, educated, shamanistic, mediumistic person who is as intelligent as the process that unfolds in the channels of your own perception”
Arnold Mindell founder of Process Work
Process refers to
a flow of experience constantly occurring and potentially emerging in oneself, in relationships, the community, the environment and the world. By directing attention to what is just beyond our everyday awareness, solutions naturally reveal themselves and can bring forth healing, growth and insight as well as an enhanced wholeness through the recognition and integration of diverse and marginalised parts of ourselves.
Process work is
Humble
I am not focused on giving advice or analysis rather I guide you to follow and align with your own wisdom and natural capacity. Your uniqueness is inherently respected. We have a pre primed healing intelligence already wanting to reach us. Even seemingly dysfunctional or negative experiences can be expressions of our system trying to come to repair.
Non pathologising in it’s essence
I am not looking at your difficulties as an illness to fix. Not that you shouldn’t go to doctors and seek diagnosis and medical relief from your ailments but this modality offers an underlying belief that you are not disordered. Rather the coping and healing mechanisms of the psyche are intricate, diverse, complex, intelligent and amazing rather than disordered or broken and that view in itself is healing and massively de-shaming as well as nurturing of self acceptance and love.
I hope not to indicate that process work is airy fairy or for some particular kind of person or group. It is structured and technical … aswell as mysterious, imaginative and even playful. I take my work utmost seriously but that doesn’t mean therapy can’t be playful and that playfulness can’t be deep.
Process work can be an effective complement to conventional medicine and besides easing psychological and emotional distress, has been known to provide relief from psychosomatic ailments and body symptoms. I have experienced this in my work before. It can uncover the underlying pattern or reason for say, a headache, address the psychological meaning and alleviate things. Saying all this, you may resist this view as idealistic or codswallop. Perhaps feeling broken may be where you’re at and some therapist suggesting that you’re not just isn’t right for you. I welcome you to resist what I say. Who am I to tell you how you should be? That would be contradictory to my explanation. My point is, by not marginalising aspects of ourselves we bring about greater access to our whole self which, with trained and trauma informed awareness, brings alchemy.
Deeply authentic
If called for we work beyond the everyday mind which tends to govern what we express and how we express it, creating barriers. If not called for we don’t. There isn’t a need to try to be authentic, it just happens. We may stick with talk therapy or go into movement, somatic experience, dreams, meditations, parts work, use sound or connect with the environment around us and let the earth assist us. We could work on everyday challenge such as deciding on a study path or procrastinating about doing paperwork or we could go deeper and delve into life purpose or conditioning from childhood. I accompany you, following your lead but understand how to navigate. Like a tracker using my awareness of present observable signals to enhance your experience, work with challenges and enliven your journey.
Process work draws on
Taoism, Jungian psychology, Quantum Physics and indigenous healing traditions.
Process work has a structure and set of specific techniques and tools. It is also flexible and fluid.
Many thanks to Arnold Mindell (B.A, B.S., M.S. Ph.d) for putting together this modality from a wealth of study and life experience. Also Amy Mindell and the other elders and teachers of Process Oriented Psychology. I find process work more than therapy because it brings new language to the experience of being human.
What does our deep nature, unique character and gifts mean to us, our community and the world around us
How to navigate relationship challenges and what can we learn from them
Discovering patterns woven through our lives, relationships, careers and other experiences
Body symptoms can be connected to and express psychological patterns and stuck energy. Indeed our body is dreaming too and somatic experiences have associated images, movements, sounds and feelings which reveal useful and meaningful information. By tuning into the sensory experiences of body symptoms we can shift our relationship with the discomfort or illness. This often eases suffering and can bring relief from the symptom itself, as well as provide a doorway to explore more of who we are and what underlying experience a symptom may be calling attention to.
Equine facilitated psychotherapy
Self love
Night time dreams (and day dreams)
What are the underlying emotional and psychological patterns connected with body symptoms and how can we relate to them in a different way
Grief
Self exploration and knowledge
Relationships and intimacy
Interact and connect with nature and the earth to assist and guide you through challenges
What are the potential solutions or learnings within our challenges and issues
How can working at the edge of awareness provide new information and capacity for growth and change
How can we practice a deeply democratic way of dealing with inner or outer conflict
