Holistic & Body-based Techniques
The mind-body connection has often been underemphasized in traditional psychotherapeutic practice, even as evidence mounts that nervous-system regulation and embodiment are central to lasting change. This category of work highlights clinicians who skillfully integrate body-based healing practices into their existing frameworks. Rather than treating these methods as optional additions, contributors show how approaches like Hakomi and Tapping can function as first-line approaches. These resources help therapists design embodied routines that clients can carry into daily life.
Learning even a little about nutrition and diet can greatly enhance therapists’ ability to help clients with mood problems. Read more
Most clients have automatic habits of thinking, feeling, and verbalizing experiences that imprison them in a world of gray sameness. How do we help them... Read more
Although the idea that the mind and body are inextricably linked is widely accepted in our field, many clinicians remain too focused on words to hear the... Read more
Watch Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg demonstrate a therapeutic breathing exercise used to treat anxiety in session. Read more
Since psychotherapists are not routinely trained to factor in the role of nutrition, Leslie Korn’s focus on why and how to incorporate nutritional... Read more
Amy Weintraub shares a quick 3-minute tutorial on how to breathe to calm the stress response system. Read more
Recently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more
A new book exposes the story of the corporate competition for our taste buds and ever-expanding tummies. Read more
For more than 25 years, Pat Ogden has been at the forefront of developing somatic approaches that can succeed where the talking cure fails. Read more
An alternative to the old talking cure is expanding the knowledge base of psychotherapy as we recognize the role that exercise, nutrition, spirituality... Read more
While learning Qigong, a psychotherapist unlearns the Western mindset that has been keeping him, and his clients, stuck. Read more
A variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more
Therapy can too easily become reduced to two talking heads, spinning out tales. But treatment can be intensified and enlivened by tapping into our immediate... Read more
.svg)