Experiential therapy

Internalized shame tells you something is fundamentally wrong with who you are. This post explores what that experience actually is, where it comes from, and how relational, experiential therapy creates the conditions for something to shift.

Experiential therapy isn't a procedure I run on you. It's a present-moment way of working that lets the body lead. Here's the texture of an experiential turn from inside the room: the noticing, the slowing, the small experiment, and what changes when the body has time.

Sometimes something in you starts asking for attention without giving you words for it. This post is about that quiet edge in the body, why it tends to go unheard, and what it asks of you when you turn toward it slowly with company.

If you've come across the words felt sense and wondered what they actually mean, this is the long version. Where Focusing came from, what Eugene Gendlin discovered in his research, what the body's quiet knowing actually is, and why this work continues to shape psychotherapy.

Focusing Oriented Therapy can be hard to picture from the outside. Here's how a Focusing turn actually unfolds in a session: the felt sense, how I listen, the small shifts that move things forward, and what becomes possible when the body has the time it needs.

A Vancouver-based therapist on what relational therapy looks and feels like in session. Five markers from Jean Baker Miller's work to help you recognise when the work is landing.

Experiential psychotherapy begins with what is present in the body and in the space between us, right now. An introduction to what the approach is, the lineages it comes from, and what actually happens in a session that works this way.