Mind/Body Integration

Therapeutic counselling is a process that moves in the direction of greater integration and wholeness. That means is that you can move to a broader understanding of how separate life events, relationships, trauma, and the joys and difficulties of our human experience have all come to impact you and contribute to your particular way of being in the world. Integration involves bringing together what we have held separate, and compartmentalized, in the past. In this way we welcome back the truth held in our bodies so that it more closely matches the beliefs we carry in our minds. In counselling we integrate and update the narratives we hold around our life experience, bringing into greater coherence past and present . We can then make sense of things in a new way.

At times we integrate emotions and trauma’s that have been walled off and compartmentalized, inviting a newfound ability to hold our seat, and feel our ground, in the midst of life’s difficulties. Through mindfulness, we can integrate the way we access information from both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, so that we get a more balanced view.

Integration means establishing a new pattern of cohesion, where less of our experience lies in the unconscious, and as a result, more of who you are becomes available to your life.