Mind/Body Integration

Therapeutic counselling is a process that moves in the direction of greater integration and wholeness. Clients move to a broader, more inclusive understanding of how life events, relationships, and the joys and difficulties of our human experience have all had impact and contribute to a particular way of being in the world. Integration involves bringing together what has been held separate, compartmentalized from the past. In this way the truth held in our bodies is welcomed back so that it more closely aligns with the beliefs we carry in our minds and what we express to others on the outside matches what we feel on the inside. In therapeutic counselling we integrate and update the old narratives we hold around our life experience, bringing into greater coherence past and present, mind and body . We come to make sense of things in a new way.

Integration means establishing a new pattern of cohesion, where new capacities become available so that we may “hold our seat” and retain our steadiness in the midst of life’s difficulties. Integration leaves less of our experience in the unconscious, and as a result, more of who you are becomes available to your life.