Integration psychotherapy

There are many reasons and times in our life when we require a different kind of support, one that friends and family aren’t able to give us. Sometimes we need practical tools to navigate difficult times, there are occasions when we need help to understand and make sense of our reactions and our feelings. When we experience trauma, it can be beneficial to have a safe place for our stories to be heard and our experience to be witnessed. For many people it is not about words but about exploring what is held in the body and the need to allow what has been stored to be safely released. There are very few of us who don’t experience some kind of trauma through the course of our life, therapy offers support on the path through the difficult terrain that the trauma wound creates in our body and our lived experience, it is ultimately a means to integrate these wounds, allowing us to find our way back to ourselves and in to the flow of our life.

Integration Therapy offers a container that includes talking and somatic/yoga based therapies. It supports the convergence of multiple methodologies to create an offering that is adaptable and forms something like a map to suit the individual. My belief is that all humans have the need to belong; to place ,on land, in time, within generations, community, in the body and ultimately to self. The therapy process opens access to a map that helps us to navigate life, integrate experience and live in accordance with a personal truth. Leah Manaema describes this as “locating yourself through coordinates of belonging”. Through identifying places of belonging it is possible to find the self and to live life within the full expression of human experience.