Psychotherapy helps the person gain deep self-knowledge and link the past with the present: see how their early life experiences have influenced the way they live their adult life. The realizations they make enable them to let go of their passive attitude and take an active role in their life. Thus, they become much more conscious and present in their life.

Body Psychotherapy is a holistic form of psychotherapy which incorporates the body within the psychotherapeutic process. Based on the idea that the body is directly linked to thought and emotions, Body Psychotherapy uses various techniques which enhance the awareness of our body and its direct connection with our thoughts and emotions for the restoration of pathological symptoms. 

In order to facilitate the analysis process, the body psychotherapist utilizes techniques which focus on the body and in particular on the level of bodily sensations which are often out of our awareness.

Many idiomatic phrases indicate the somatic aspect of experience. For example, we refer to our ability to “take a stand”, to “be grounded”, to have a sense in our guts about something, to have an “open heart”, to “raise a wall”.

Body Psychotherapy emphasizes very basic life processes: how we connect to other people, how we claim for and get what we need, how we build boundaries to define ourselves, how we see ourselves and how others see us, how we organize our potential to get out into the world and how we return to ourselves to rest and replenish our psychic power.

An approach that examines all the aspects of the self, is obviously a more complete way of working, whether the issues we deal with affect us bodily or emotionally. Most people have a complex relationship with their body and a lot consider it as disconnected from the Self.

Like Body psychotherapy, Gestalt is a holistic psychotherapeutic modality which examines the person as a whole. It views the mind, body and emotions as a functional unity and helps the individual to recognize, trust and rely on their own inner resources.

Gestalt focuses on the here and now of the individual and not on their past. It seeks to make the person aware of what is happening inside them at every moment, to take responsibility and accept it. This way, they also become aware of their power to change it.

Many research studies have shown that the most important factor in the therapeutic process is the relationship you develop with the therapist rather than the particular approach followed.