SOMATIC TRAUMA THERAPY
in the style of Gabor Mate's compassionate inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants. This approach gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body, that are at the root of mental and physical illness and addiction.
When clients perceive the therapeutic relationship as a safe container, compassion and curiosity allow them to acknowledge and examine the traumatic events that happened to them as children, recognize the beliefs they internalized, and feel the emotions they suppressed. This contributes to the healing process.
Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
When we can release ourselves from the hold of these stories, a new way of being emerges, leading to spontaneity, choice, expansion and freedom.
“The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves – to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them ….” Dr. Gabor Maté
I offer Compassionate Inquiry inspired somatic therapy sessions that allow individuals to connect to the truth within themselves in the present moment & to become free from self-generated suffering, gaining insight, clarity and choice in their behaviour and helping to achieve a deep sense of peace, self love and self acceptance.
Please reach out to find out more and book in a 50 minute session to explore any triggers or issues you maybe struggling with.