Supervising somatic therapy online
This event, facilitated by Justyna Muller, will allow space to discuss and reflect on how we use somatic awareness while working on screens or by phone and when the visibility of client’s or supervisee’s body is limited to within the screen or is invisible. Is the somatic resonance still happening? And if so, can we work with this?
We all use somatic/body communication in therapy and supervision either consciously, through observing the client’s or supervisee’s changes in body or facial expressions or unconsciously through “empathic mirroring”.
Somatic therapy integrates the awareness of body processes during therapy and supervision offering techniques that support clients and their therapists, to safely integrate and manage high levels of distress. We can use this awareness whilst in therapy and supervision when “words fail” and there is no language or emotion to express past or present events, as in frozen or dissociative states.
In this meeting, Justyna will present different ideas about working with the body in therapy, from an archetypal and relational perspective, through to more modern perspectives on working with trauma by integrating body, emotions, mind, and imagination. She will present basic ideas from neuroscience, especially the importance of understanding the function of the autonomic nervous system in therapy. Justyna will offer practical and down to earth ways of bringing therapists and clients back to the “window of tolerance” whilst working online or by phone with traumatic or challenging life events.
During this event, you will be offered an option to participate in creative activities online and to reflect and discuss different aspects of somatic work in small groups.
All participants will be invited to have a cushion, papers, and crayons at hand.
To book and for more information please visit ysf.org.uk.
Ian has over 11500 hours of professional clinical practice with all combinations of Clients. He works from an intuitive basis and has the Client's needs at the heart of his work. He has been Counselling since 2002 and teaching since 2012 and has qualifications for Counselling, Teaching, Coaching and Supervision.