How I Work
What Happens in the Room
Body-based therapy can sound unfamiliar before you've tried it. Here's what an actual session looks like — plainly, concretely, without mystique.
How I Work
Body-based therapy can sound unfamiliar before you've tried it. Here's what an actual session looks like — plainly, concretely, without mystique.
Core Energetics is a therapy of energy and consciousness. We look at how energy flows and is distributed through the body — where it is overcharged, where it is undercharged — and we bring awareness to the defenses and character strategies that shaped us.
There's no fixed script. Sessions move at the pace you're comfortable with, but a first session generally has a shape.
Some conversation first — what's alive for you, what brought you here.
An observation of your posture, movement, and energy — always discussed with you in advance. Comfortable, loose-fitting clothing is suggested, though you're welcome to wear whatever you're comfortable in. You can decline this at any time.
Whatever the moment calls for: guided body awareness, breathwork, movement, grounding positions, expressive work (sound, movement, kicking into a mat, pillow work), meditation, and at times cognitive reflection.
Our defenses live in the body as chronic, unconscious muscular tension — the energy you spend holding yourself together. In Core Energetics terms, some parts of the body become overcharged: bracing, gripping, always on. Others go undercharged and quiet, cut off from feeling. Both are what I'd call character structure — the strategies you learned as a child to stay safe, still running in the body long after they stopped being necessary.
Holding these patterns costs something. We constrict our breathing to hold back feeling and impulse, and that constriction takes energy to maintain, every day, whether we notice it or not.
Slowly, carefully, and in a trauma-informed way, we work to release that holding. The energy once spent on defense doesn't disappear — it returns as aliveness: deeper breath, more presence, more spontaneity, and closer contact with your own inner knowing — the capacity to make sovereign, grounded decisions from a felt sense of yourself, rather than from old defensive habit.
An important part of Core Energetics is working with and through the body, so touch is sometimes part of a session. When it's used, it's light and non-sexual — gentle pressure on muscles, supportive contact, or assisted stretches — there to support awareness, release held tension, and help energy move.
Permission is asked before any physical contact, every time. You're free to decline or withdraw consent at any moment simply by saying "stop" or "no," and that's honoured immediately, without question. This approach is guided by the ethical and clinical framework of the Institute of Body Psychotherapy, and informed by the regular clinical supervision I receive as part of my training.
I practise under regular clinical supervision as part of my training, as a Student Practitioner in my third and final year at the Institute of Body Psychotherapy. To me, this reads as accountability — a second set of eyes on my work, throughout — not as a sign of inexperience.
Sessions are available worldwide via Zoom, with the same ethical standards and confidentiality as in-person work. I want to be honest about the limits, though: online somatic therapy can't fully replicate the physical co-regulation and embodied sense of presence that being in the same room provides. Where it seems like in-person work would serve your process better, I'll say so — and either way, we'll work with what's available to you.
The best way to know if this feels right is a conversation. There's no pressure, no obligation — just a chance to ask questions and see how it feels.
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