Hands-On Therapy

The Boundary Adventures in BodyMind Boundaries for Beginners (2^nd Revised Edition) address the relationship underpinnings that pervade hands-on bodywork. They deal directly with themes of contact with self and others, maintaining emotional freedom while personally connected (a major theme for all therapists), plus guide you to wake-up the language of your body, to maintain feelings of self-support even while being rejected or criticized, manage client requests that are beyond acceptable scope of practice, and take personal responsibility for impulses so that your actions are therapeutic and not inappropriate. BodyMind Boundaries help you flexibly adapt to client requests, scheduling difficulties, money issues, self-promotion anxiety, and many other client/therapist issues (ie touch, communication, trust), indeed, all the common dynamics that come up in business, life, and relationship.

BodyMind Boundaries build a personal body experience that will guide you as you face common challenges. The body-mind work you do with yourself will help you better manage any difficulties you are facing in your practice and your life. With a body awareness of your emotional boundaries, you don’t have to rely solely upon your mind to make ethical decisions. Your body clearly defines and supports you to discover when to give or withhold touch, how to keep communications clear, how to deal with transference and counter-transference, how to keep the therapeutic relationship separate from your personal feelings relating to clients.