Such beautiful holding and attunement. There is nothing I enjoy more than witnessing a person or client becoming open, vulnerable and free--letting go of false beliefs and opening to an inherent sense of safety and truth. Thank you for posting this incredible session.
I once had a therapist who had this soft grounding essence she was a art therapist, she's the only one that helped me progress in therapy. My psychiatrist of 9 years was very distant, cutoff, kind of dismissive in many sessions. It makes a huge difference between healers and clockwatchers. This is very validating.
This is what real true intimacy and connection and attunment looks like. What we all wanted as children but never got. Amazing work! Very touching and healing!
I know im asking randomly but does anybody know of a trick to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost my login password. I appreciate any help you can offer me
@Carlos Hamza thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Very interesting session. I can imagine the intensity of having all this energy in the room directed at someone. Being validated and watched with kindness and in a nonjudgmental way must feel wonderful. This woman is experiencing a deep healing given by this "healer" therapist. Some therapists just have that side to them. I have met a couple of them. It's all in their presence.
I soooo much want you as a therapist! 😭 this seems like a session with a Therapist that would actually help me. it's so hard to find a therapist that doesn't make trauma worse...
This was a beautiful session. I wonder if the people who are talking about the camera work continued to watch to the end. It was distracting at first and a little dizzying, but then it stopped, and we just watched beautiful work. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for this demonstration, very interesting to see how you use body sensations to help explore and integrate more than just feelings and thoughts, if I understand correctly! I listened 4 or 5 times to hear everything, the voices were difficult to hear, but I'm grateful for the value I received. Thank you!
The horrible camera work and bad lighting/low sound quality make it distracting, however I loved watching how tracking her present moment experience really helped her feel seen.
It's kind of hard to understand the therapist's voice at certain points and the camera work is bad but the content is amazing, thank you to the individuals being taped.
Well I have a feeling a lot of my alulthood and rest of my adulesence will be spend doing tharepy. I am missing authentic connection, having someones presence, not being abandoned, stayed with and a father figure who is always there for me. I hope that is something somatic tharepy provides. I will do anything in my power to get these needs met.
As a massage therapist, I see one problem with this session. The client was asked what she wanted to work on and right when she was answering, the therapist cut her off and asked if they could work on her issue with being watched. That may have been okay if she gone back later and asked what the client had originally started to say. Concerns over being watched are normal when you're being watched. lol. I would venture to guess that this fear of being watched was maybe not as important as the issue the client was about to bring up before the therapist cut her off.
+The World According to Nino Thanks very much for watching the video and taking the time to post a comment. I appreciate your thoughts and understand what you are saying. In this form of therapy, we are always looking for what is alive in the moment and that was the most alive thing right then. Working with being watched was actually a big thing for her as it had happened at home and her key issue was safety. The session became all about safety in the here and now with receiving my attention and nourishment. It is a different way of working than many therapists work -- focusing more on the content. Our goal is to work in the present moment to get to experiences, feelings and core beliefs underneath the words. Thanks again for commenting. Karen
Journalism 101: Check your facts before you state something as true so you don't appear ignorant. For your information, massage therapists don't make ten dollars an hour. Most make far above that. And community colleges don't offer massage therapy programs. Social media sites like UA-cam encourage comment on posts. Many people like myself may provide constructive criticism. Unfortunately, there are also people who seem to have nothing better to do than to be disrespectful and confrontational with little to no provocation. To each their own but remember that the negativity you put out into the Universe will be returned to you. Have a blessed day. :)
Sometimes it is good to 'cut off' clients. If we don't, their unconscious defences will keep them just at the surface. She essentially already answered the question (being watched came up) and then there was an interest in bypassing that. So it is good the therapist confronted it, I think.
WARNING: Camera is all over the place until @11:00 so if you are someone who experiences motion sickness, skip to @12:00 Prior to that, the sporadic adjusting of the camera is unnecessarily distracting and disruptive, The real work in this video begins @20:00 It takes them that long to ignore the camera/camera operators shifting around, and actually get down to doing the therapeutic work. I have to say that if I had been a paying client and this was my session, I would be very displeased with 17 minutes of "work" if I paid for 50 minutes; I recognize this is a demo. This demonstration left me thinking, "This is either a practitioner and/or a kind of therapy I'll want to avoid."
HI, thank you for your question. I do not have an answer for you. Perhaps you can check with your clergy person? Somatic therapy is about noticing what your body is telling you and listening to it so you can heal. There is much information about our experiences that our body holds and our minds don't necessarily, so uncovering the information will enable you to get clarity about what you really want and what you really need to feel better.
The therapist, older lady is very very seroius, client is more expressive and warmer and taking leading role more the therapist herself.. why the therapist doesn t reflect smile for example with the client? I understand it is practising session but it can be more warmest body language and facial expression from the therapist even she is using SE techniques.
Sorry, but l found this very difficult to hea and follow.. Due to the appalling sound quality. A real shame. Can you do a version that is clearer Thank You
She was excellent in many ways, However, when she begins to tell the patient, "You deserve niceness and kindness" (with the intent of "checking in" what comes up in her with such a statement), I would argue she is triggering in the patient's defense mechanisms that do not necessarily warrant a response. In other words, she is suggesting something to the patient that is rather disembodied at that moment, out of context and, furthermore, most probably is not where she is at, at all in those prior/present moments of exchange (at any rate it is too far removed) So, therefore, to have the patient negotiate response/no response is, if you will, setting up an artifice of where she is in the moment. There should not be the compulsion to respond or not respond upon the patient as it didn't arise in the context of present exchanges. and therefore any response/no response will be a sense of obligation/compulsion to satisfy the therapist!
Wow, I noticed that and wondered but didn't know how to put it into words like you did, thank you. I also thought Karen was excellent in many ways with her attunement and I found it fascinating to observe the dynamic exchange between them both.
Andrea, the best option is for you to go Sensorimotor Psychotherapy website and look for practitioners in Ohio. I do not explicitly do sensorimotor work but you will find many commonalities and hopefully enough of what you are looking for with an SP practitioner. Karen
+Talitha Suya Hi, Talitha, I looked at the video. Here are the answers: 1) The question at 1:22 was "What happened for you when we contacted that?" She had just named she felt comforted by my moving closer. 2) The "tricky question" was "Is it okay to stay with that?" She had just felt something significant but we'd already identified that staying with some feelings of nourishment was hard and she needed small doses so I wanted to acknowledge that by asking her permission.
Camera work is inexcusably bad. Put the camera on a tripod or something equivalent. Frame it and put it on a stack of boxes if you don't have a tripod. Do the session in a room with a carpet so the sound isn't so hollow. Get a young person to shoot it, maybe they'll understand the basics of video/audio.
@@CaitlinBurt The free video / audio advice is worth more than the video i'm commenting on. All the content on UA-cam is free. And people understand the basics of how to create digestible content. This is the first time i've ever made these kinds of suggestions. I'm actually interested in the content, but couldn't sit through the horrible execution.
Thanks for sharing. There is something in the session that I find disturbing. That's all that laugh. It's as if the therapy is slowing down when it's being laughed. The therapeutic presence disappears. Apparently, the client needs these breaks. But I wonder why the therapist also participates in the laughter and thus reinforces it?
Laughter may work as a (tension) discharge, and as regulator of the activation of the Autonomic Nervous System. This is a very important part of the work in Somatics… where we are constantly tracking for the activation held in the body and… in a very slowly and soft way, help lead for (somatic) discharges to happen. Doing so, the nervous system of the person can on one side, 1. close (old) cycles of stress unresolved in the body … and on the other hand, 2. grow in its resilience and capacity to contain stressful events. Expanding as a benefit her window of tolerance (Daniel Siegel concept). Hope this comment finds you… being your comment done 4 years ago ;) and helps :) Wishing you a happy day too !!!
+Cassandra Caza Keep in mind they are working in front of a crowd, and a camera. With a good therapist things definitely feel more natural more often, but real life and real effort to grow and change can be awkward sometimes!
yeah, I see your point but, it was just felt strange because in normal life and conversation I don't typically see people "checking in" with how something feels inside or, within the relationship. It felt cringe-worthy as these things I tend to ignore on purpose. And now, question why this is exactly.
Yes exactly. We ignore exactly what we need to hear and attend to in order to move through things without creating more baggage. Our culture doesn't teach self-attention and as a result there are many who struggle with not feeling their true selves :)
'Being watched by everyone' was circumstantial, and its connection with other issues was tenuous, even imaginary. This is opening up dubious areas of concern and giving strength to them. The more you focus on a problem the more you strengthen its grip over you. There's a lot of harmful self-indulgence here.
Such beautiful holding and attunement. There is nothing I enjoy more than witnessing a person or client becoming open, vulnerable and free--letting go of false beliefs and opening to an inherent sense of safety and truth. Thank you for posting this incredible session.
I once had a therapist who had this soft grounding essence she was a art therapist, she's the only one that helped me progress in therapy. My psychiatrist of 9 years was very distant, cutoff, kind of dismissive in many sessions. It makes a huge difference between healers and clockwatchers. This is very validating.
I think of a psychiatrist as a physician who writes prescriptions, whereas I think of a therapist as just that: a therapeutic relationship.
This is what real true intimacy and connection and attunment looks like. What we all wanted as children but never got. Amazing work! Very touching and healing!
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I stupidly lost my login password. I appreciate any help you can offer me
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@Carlos Hamza thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Carlos Hamza It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you really help me out !
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Very interesting session. I can imagine the intensity of having all this energy in the room directed at someone. Being validated and watched with kindness and in a nonjudgmental way must feel wonderful. This woman is experiencing a deep healing given by this "healer" therapist. Some therapists just have that side to them. I have met a couple of them. It's all in their presence.
Thank you Charlene for your vulnerability and sharing your humanity with us all x
I am so grateful to this participant. She is so sweet. Can't be easy doing what she is doing, but thank you for allowing us to learn from you.
I soooo much want you as a therapist! 😭
this seems like a session with a Therapist that would actually help me. it's so hard to find a therapist that doesn't make trauma worse...
What a beautiful therapy session. I'd love to take home the experience the client had. The feeling of safety - of how it feels, of how it should feel.
This was a beautiful session. I wonder if the people who are talking about the camera work continued to watch to the end. It was distracting at first and a little dizzying, but then it stopped, and we just watched beautiful work. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this demonstration, very interesting to see how you use body sensations to help explore and integrate more than just feelings and thoughts, if I understand correctly! I listened 4 or 5 times to hear everything, the voices were difficult to hear, but I'm grateful for the value I received. Thank you!
So grateful you posted this beautiful healing work. Thank you
I'm glad I got to see this...I was on the process of trying to find a practioner but now I know I'm not ready.
The horrible camera work and bad lighting/low sound quality make it distracting, however I loved watching how tracking her present moment experience really helped her feel seen.
I'm trying to listen carefully, but I can't make out much of the audio :(
It's kind of hard to understand the therapist's voice at certain points and the camera work is bad but the content is amazing, thank you to the individuals being taped.
So peaceful and calm I felt kindness myself 😊
I wish to see more videos recorded by this channel. Very interesting.
Well I have a feeling a lot of my alulthood and rest of my adulesence will be spend doing tharepy. I am missing authentic connection, having someones presence, not being abandoned, stayed with and a father figure who is always there for me.
I hope that is something somatic tharepy provides. I will do anything in my power to get these needs met.
do you experience physical symptoms due to these unresolved experiences or sensations you are describing?
This was so beautiful to watch and feel!!! So powerful and helpful..thank you xo
it's a shame the audio is so bad- i can barely make out what's being said but the laughter is blowing out my eardrums!
As a massage therapist, I see one problem with this session. The client was asked what she wanted to work on and right when she was answering, the therapist cut her off and asked if they could work on her issue with being watched. That may have been okay if she gone back later and asked what the client had originally started to say. Concerns over being watched are normal when you're being watched. lol. I would venture to guess that this fear of being watched was maybe not as important as the issue the client was about to bring up before the therapist cut her off.
+The World According to Nino Thanks very much for watching the video and taking the time to post a comment. I appreciate your thoughts and understand what you are saying. In this form of therapy, we are always looking for what is alive in the moment and that was the most alive thing right then. Working with being watched was actually a big thing for her as it had happened at home and her key issue was safety. The session became all about safety in the here and now with receiving my attention and nourishment. It is a different way of working than many therapists work -- focusing more on the content. Our goal is to work in the present moment to get to experiences, feelings and core beliefs underneath the words. Thanks again for commenting. Karen
Journalism 101: Check your facts before you state something as true so you don't appear ignorant. For your information, massage therapists don't make ten dollars an hour. Most make far above that. And community colleges don't offer massage therapy programs. Social media sites like UA-cam encourage comment on posts. Many people like myself may provide constructive criticism. Unfortunately, there are also people who seem to have nothing better to do than to be disrespectful and confrontational with little to no provocation. To each their own but remember that the negativity you put out into the Universe will be returned to you. Have a blessed day. :)
Sometimes it is good to 'cut off' clients. If we don't, their unconscious defences will keep them just at the surface. She essentially already answered the question (being watched came up) and then there was an interest in bypassing that. So it is good the therapist confronted it, I think.
Nice session. Coming from a Hakomi background, this makes sense to me :-)
omg she is so cooooooool. i wanna be like her when i grow up. (i mean, they are BOTH cool, but therapy-wise, i wanna be like karen!)
WARNING: Camera is all over the place until @11:00 so if you are someone who experiences motion sickness, skip to @12:00 Prior to that, the sporadic adjusting of the camera is unnecessarily distracting and disruptive,
The real work in this video begins @20:00 It takes them that long to ignore the camera/camera operators shifting around, and actually get down to doing the therapeutic work.
I have to say that if I had been a paying client and this was my session, I would be very displeased with 17 minutes of "work" if I paid for 50 minutes; I recognize this is a demo.
This demonstration left me thinking, "This is either a practitioner and/or a kind of therapy I'll want to avoid."
This is a bit confusing to watch. What was the topic? I don’t feel I got a good sense of a session.
To feel safe.
Should a Christian believer try somatic therapy? Not sure since we are told to stay away from chakra stuff and yoga.
HI, thank you for your question. I do not have an answer for you. Perhaps you can check with your clergy person? Somatic therapy is about noticing what your body is telling you and listening to it so you can heal. There is much information about our experiences that our body holds and our minds don't necessarily, so uncovering the information will enable you to get clarity about what you really want and what you really need to feel better.
Omg the camera person!!! 😖
How does it feel in your body, not what you are thinking!
her body language is very interesting...
The therapist, older lady is very very seroius, client is more expressive and warmer and taking leading role more the therapist herself.. why the therapist doesn t reflect smile for example with the client? I understand it is practising session but it can be more warmest body language and facial expression from the therapist even she is using SE techniques.
That's entirely your projection! She was excellent beyond words, deeply and profoundly empathic!
She smiles often. She is backlit so it's hard to see. She appears to have great rapport with the client.
Sorry, but l found this very difficult to hea and follow.. Due to the appalling sound quality.
A real shame. Can you do a version that is clearer
Thank You
She was excellent in many ways, However, when she begins to tell the patient, "You deserve niceness and kindness" (with the intent of "checking in" what comes up in her with such a statement), I would argue she is triggering in the patient's defense mechanisms that do not necessarily warrant a response. In other words, she is suggesting something to the patient that is rather disembodied at that moment, out of context and, furthermore, most probably is not where she is at, at all in those prior/present moments of exchange (at any rate it is too far removed) So, therefore, to have the patient negotiate response/no response is, if you will, setting up an artifice of where she is in the moment. There should not be the compulsion to respond or not respond upon the patient as it didn't arise in the context of present exchanges. and therefore any response/no response will be a sense of obligation/compulsion to satisfy the therapist!
Wow, I noticed that and wondered but didn't know how to put it into words like you did, thank you. I also thought Karen was excellent in many ways with her attunement and I found it fascinating to observe the dynamic exchange between them both.
Pretty bad camera and audio footage. Too distracted by it.
I would like to find a therapist in my area that offers this approach. Do you know how I might go about that? Thank you in advance!
Hi, Andrea,
Where do you live?
Karen
Thank you very much for replying!! I live in Ohio :)
Andrea, the best option is for you to go Sensorimotor Psychotherapy website and look for practitioners in Ohio. I do not explicitly do sensorimotor work but you will find many commonalities and hopefully enough of what you are looking for with an SP practitioner. Karen
Thank you for the information!! Very helpful :) Andrea
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What was the question at 1:22?
+Talitha Suya Also...what was the question at 14:00? The "tricky question."
+Talitha Suya
Hi, I received your comments and will find the answers in the next few days. Thanks for viewing the video.
Take care, Karen
+Talitha Suya Hi, Talitha, I looked at the video. Here are the answers: 1) The question at 1:22 was "What happened for you when we contacted that?" She had just named she felt comforted by my moving closer. 2) The "tricky question" was "Is it okay to stay with that?" She had just felt something significant but we'd already identified that staying with some feelings of nourishment was hard and she needed small doses so I wanted to acknowledge that by asking her permission.
+Default Name Thank you. I really appreciate your taking the time to answer.
Such poor audio...could only understand very little of what was said. Too bad, interesting topic.
Camera work is inexcusably bad. Put the camera on a tripod or something equivalent. Frame it and put it on a stack of boxes if you don't have a tripod. Do the session in a room with a carpet so the sound isn't so hollow. Get a young person to shoot it, maybe they'll understand the basics of video/audio.
This is free content dude
@@CaitlinBurt The free video / audio advice is worth more than the video i'm commenting on. All the content on UA-cam is free. And people understand the basics of how to create digestible content. This is the first time i've ever made these kinds of suggestions. I'm actually interested in the content, but couldn't sit through the horrible execution.
Precious
I felt a little beat up by the frequent zooming and reframing of the camera.
this is interesting
Thanks for sharing. There is something in the session that I find disturbing. That's all that laugh. It's as if the therapy is slowing down when it's being laughed. The therapeutic presence disappears. Apparently, the client needs these breaks. But I wonder why the therapist also participates in the laughter and thus reinforces it?
Laughter may work as a (tension) discharge, and as regulator of the activation of the Autonomic Nervous System. This is a very important part of the work in Somatics… where we are constantly tracking for the activation held in the body and… in a very slowly and soft way, help lead for (somatic) discharges to happen. Doing so, the nervous system of the person can on one side, 1. close (old) cycles of stress unresolved in the body … and on the other hand, 2. grow in its resilience and capacity to contain stressful events. Expanding as a benefit her window of tolerance (Daniel Siegel concept). Hope this comment finds you… being your comment done 4 years ago ;) and helps :) Wishing you a happy day too !!!
I can barely hear you :-(
wow this is SO awkward. do I need therapy or is this a "normal" reaction? :)
+Cassandra Caza Keep in mind they are working in front of a crowd, and a camera. With a good therapist things definitely feel more natural more often, but real life and real effort to grow and change can be awkward sometimes!
yeah, I see your point but, it was just felt strange because in normal life and conversation I don't typically see people "checking in" with how something feels inside or, within the relationship. It felt cringe-worthy as these things I tend to ignore on purpose. And now, question why this is exactly.
Yes exactly. We ignore exactly what we need to hear and attend to in order to move through things without creating more baggage. Our culture doesn't teach self-attention and as a result there are many who struggle with not feeling their true selves :)
Ahh i feel yucky in my stomach
'Being watched by everyone' was circumstantial, and its connection with other issues was tenuous, even imaginary. This is opening up dubious areas of concern and giving strength to them. The more you focus on a problem the more you strengthen its grip over you. There's a lot of harmful self-indulgence here.
This camera work makes it unbearable to watch. That person should be no where near a camera
uuugh.... stop moving the camera!
indeed. the camera work is annoying and if it continues ill turn the video off.... 5:55