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What is Somatic Counselling and how can it help me?
Heard of Somatic Counselling? It’s a form of therapy that looks at the connection of mind AND body for holistic healing. We asked Lucy Parker, founder of a new counselling & coaching service, Embark, to tell us more and how it could help with everything from anxiety to low-mood…
There’s more than one string to the bow of Lucy Parker, the founder of FLOW Yoga in Tunbridge Wells.Not only has Lucy gained over 15 years experience as a yoga, breath-work and meditation teacher – she’s also a trained and qualified counsellor, psychotherapist and coach. Now, Lucy is pulling all these talents together and has launched Embark, a Counselling & Coaching service that offers therapy and support, which can be done face-to-face or in remote Zoom sessions.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given Lucy’s background, she’s specialises in Somatic Counselling – a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing.
In addition to talking therapy, somatic therapy practitioners use mind-body exercises and other physical techniques to help release the pent-up tension that negatively affects a patient’s physical and emotional wellbeing. Sounds interesting? We asked Lucy to tell us more:
