The Well Attuned Therapist: Using Body and Breath to Enhance Relationality and Client Outcome

What if you had a way of engaging with your client that strengthened resiliency, deepened interactive resonance, helped you maintain maximal attunement throughout the session and took your practice to the next level of effectiveness?

Research on Attachment Theory demonstrates the value of infusing the therapeutic relationship with qualities of close, intense, emotional, and physical attunement; this is the environment we attempt to recreate in therapy by offering an experience to make up for what the client missed in childhood. Now, include awareness and attunement of the breath and body to the formula and you have a holistic approach that brings your practice to the next level.

Teaching people to focus conscious attention upon, deepen and correctly adjust their respiratory movement (breath) is the next evolutionary step in therapeutic effectiveness.

We don’t think much about our breath – most of the time it happens all by itself; and yet with the recent research and positive discoveries in somatic therapies, our social engagement system and interpersonal neurobiology, we have a much greater understanding of just how significant human respiration is in reflecting (in the short and long run) the degree of neurophysiological overwhelm that takes place during traumatic experience.

Working with a client’s attention and body awareness with the breath contradicts the fearful threat messages associated with anxiety, phobia and PTSD. Respiration naturally regulates your autonomic nervous system, and when done intentionally, it can be one of the most powerful tools available to overwrite those old neurological “body-texts” that tell the mind something is wrong. Within a safe therapeutic container, teaching someone to breathe more fully, utilizing breath awareness and technique to manage overwhelm, as well as breathing with them creates an interpersonal resonance that maximizes therapeutic effectiveness.

This 3-part webinar series will introduce you to the most important aspects of conscious breathing, and how it can be used to manage anxiety, depression, overwhelm and trauma by rewiring the nervous system and increasing the therapeutic resonance with your client.