Body Focused Psychotherapy 101

Body Focus & Psychotherapy - Professional Development

This one-day introductory seminar is available for trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists who wish to learn about working with the body. There will be up to 8 participants on this course.

Facilitated by body psychotherapist Sue Hampton BSc CTA PTSTA

This course will serve as an introduction to Sue’s approach, which has evolved over 14 years experience as a Body Focused Psychotherapist. She will introduce BFP to you as she does with her clients; by teaching you body-focused ‘awareness experiments’. She will do this in the context of Body Psychotherapy concepts and models including her ‘Realms of Experience Wheel’.

The topics Sue will be offering are:

Why work with the body in Psychotherapy?
A brief overview of BP, history, schools and ethics – hand out.
Introduction to Sue’s philosophy and models (Ref. MSc articles in writing).
‘Realms of Experience Wheel’
Working with different aspects of self
The Seen/Hidden self.
The Embodied Relationship.
A summary of BP methodology.
Introduction to body-focused interventions using awareness experiments.
Applications to practice and links with Transactional Analysis.

Venue:	26B Clifton Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, SK4 4BU
Fees:	£80.00 per course
Dates:	Saturday 27th Feburary 2010 Saturday 25st September 2010
Times:	10.00 – 18.00

For more information and an application form please click to use contact form

Or Contact Sue Hampton on:
07957 454 804
s.hampton2@ukonline.co.uk

About Sue:

Sue has a degree in Biochemistry and is a qualified Remedial Massage Therapist (1987). In 1994 she gained her Diploma in Post-Reichian Body-Centred Psychotherapy with an organisation based in Leeds called Energy Stream. Her trainers were Nick Totton, Em Edmondson, William West and Pete Armstrong.

Since then she has attended training in the following:

Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychotherapy
Hakomi (Ron Kurtz) with Donna Martin and Bob Malone
Bioenergetics (Alexander Lowen) with Jackie Norman
Somatic Trauma Training with Babette Rothschild
Group Psychotherapy with John Bernard Harris (Gestalt Psychotherapist and Trainer)

She has have also explored many other ‘body-energy’ modalities including Kinesiology, EFT, EMDR, Sedona Method, HeartMath, Mindfulness and Human Givens.

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