Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy
Nicola Jephson Coates
"When the rhythm of the music changes, the dance step changes also."
Do you feel that anxiety, depression, overwhelm are limiting you?
Do you know that your patterns are limiting your capacity to enjoy meanigful relationships?
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Has talking therapy left you feeling something's missing in your integration process?
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Are health issues or physical pain getting you down or are you close to burnout?
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Do you worry about the future of the world and our planet?
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Do you think psychotherapy is self-indulgent?
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Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy, which impacts physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life works with bio-energy to heal the mind, body and soul as one. It is underpinned by Freudian Psychoanalysis, psycho-postural physiotherapy, Reichian Body Psychotherapy and Humanistic Psychology. In the founder, Gerda Boyesen's words, ‘I stand on the shoulders of Freud, Reich and Bülow-Hansen’. (Boyesen: 1985). The focus is on the well aspects of a person helping to heal the wounded aspects.
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​I can help you be with physical symptoms like chronic pain, undiagnosable symptoms or numbness, by approaching the symptom gently, giving it space to breathe and express itself; finding its connection with your life experience.
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With psychological dis-ease such as stress, depression, anxiety, overwhelm, prolonged grief... we can gently work together to explore its physical manifestation, its source. This form of therapy can also help you navigate your way through a crisis, a yearning for an embodied way of life, or a deeper journey of self-exploration towards a vital, purposeful, pleasurable and connected way of being.
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​As your therapist, together we co-create your sessions starting from where you are when you arrive. We will work using different methods depending on your needs and reasons for coming to therapy. We might work with embodied movement, breath release techniques, psychotherapeutic treatments, guided visualisation and imagery, or rooted talking, to name a few. Biodynamic Therapy's maxim is that a technique can fail you but you cannot fail a technique.
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​The modality recognises that repeated unfavourable experiences during childhood psychological and physical development can result in layers of defences in the mind, and also in the muscles, tissues and viscera, which can limit one's capacity to enjoy and lead a meaningful life. It is only when a person feels safe that these residues can be fully processed and cleared for bio-energy to flow freely once more. I will work with you as a unique individual with all your many layers, rather than as a body or a part thereof.
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Nicola works from Tree Space, a quiet, safe retreat haven in Hindhead, Surrey. I suggest a minimum of 6 weekly sessions to give yourself time to get a feel for the therapy.
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About me
Nicola is a trainee biodynamic psychotherapist (UKCP), a biodynamic massage therapist and full member of the Association of Biodynamic Therapists.
She grew up in South Africa, has lived in different countries in Africa and Europe, speaks English, French, and rusty Italian. She welcomes diversity, and understands the necessity of honouring her clients' world view to help them embody their nature, and relationship with themselves, their loved ones, others and our precious planet. She believes the nature of individual / couples biodynamic work can have a ripple effect to the level of global healing.
Earlier in life she worked in the tourism industry in Botswana, she's a translator, has taught French, Yoga and English as a foreign language. She's happiest barefoot on a remote beach or in the African bush.
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