About IBP

What Is IBP?

Many of us live primarily in our minds; thinking, planning, and processing memories of the past or anticipating future events.  Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) is an energetic approach to enhancing wellbeing through breath, movement and mindful awareness of somatic experience to facilitate the release of defensive holding patterns in the body and self-limiting beliefs in the mind.  These dysfunctional and habitual holding patterns emerge out of early emotional wounds and were initially designed to protect the developing self but now inherently limit the development and full expression of the authentic self.  IBP supports self-awareness, release and transformation of these embodied defensive survival strategies to realize states of wellbeing, integration and profound core sense of self. 

Living in a state of pressure, intensity and stress affects our body-mind states that effectively limits the function of the immune system, digestive system and access to more open and relaxed states of being which support our sexuality, and access to embodied spiritual experiences and overall wellbeing.  Sustained stress also negatively affects our capacity for emotional regulation and relationship.  IBP therapeutic tools enable us to shift these old patterns, release stuck emotional energy and realize enhanced states of vitality, clarity and deep relaxation. 

IBP TOOLS INCLUDE:

• Fragmentation journaling to bring awareness to defensive patterns learned from our family of origin, resource core self and interrupt these habitual and dysfunctional ways of relating.
• Somatic releases to soften and release held blocks in the body from these habitual holding patterns that enable greater freedom and presence in responding to life.
• Sustaining integration exercises which offer heightened experiences of wellbeing, aliveness, and full being integration.
• Breath work, boundary exercises, presence and grounding tools to expand access to wellbeing and transpersonal states.
• Somatic mindfulness, connection to core self, process tracking, and many others.

IBP works with existential, relational and family of origin issues to see how ones history is unconsciously recreated in the present.  With IBP tools, and experiences, new cellular memories are created, self-empowerment enlivened and new ways of being in relationship with oneself and another developed.  This makes all the difference in how we live our lives.

IBP integrates renowned approaches to mental health and human evolution from the East and West, as well as psychological, physiological and spiritual body-mind theories and practices.  Psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and somatic foundations such as Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Theory, Gestalt Therapy, Reichian Therapy, Self Psychology, Bioenergetics, Feldenkrais, Transpersonal Psychology are the basis of this eclectic and integrative model of transformation.