Energy Psychotherapy
What is Energy Psychotherapy?
Energy psychotherapy (EP) is a holistic approach combining energy psychology and energy medicine. I offer in-person energy psychotherapy sessions in London, as well as online sessions for clients across the UK.
Talking therapies are useful but sometimes talking alone is not enough to shift our deepest traumas and limiting beliefs.
Energy therapists work with the body’s subtle energy system to address issues on a number of levels.
Interventions include:
Tapping;
Holding memory centres on the body; and
Working with intention, for example by reciting words like a mantra.
What does a session look like?
Whether you attend an energy psychotherapy session in London or join online from anywhere in the UK via online video call, we start by discussing your concerns. I listen, respond, and follow the emotional charge.
At a certain point in the session where it seems we have got to “the heart of the issue”, I will suggest an intervention.
Typically this would involve:
you tapping on you whilst I simultaneously tap on me;
or you holding certain centres on your body whilst I do the same on me;
or me suggesting intentional phrases which you then repeat.
We follow the charge, or follow the energy, until your difficulty has eased and you feel a shift.
Is Energy Psychotherapy safe?
Some of these approaches e.g. tapping are admittedly peculiar at first, but my clients report they are both incredibly useful and also safe. Even deep-rooted issues and trauma can be addressed in a supportive environment. I will help you develop resources to strengthen you (specifically by helping you access an internalised safe space, and also devise a healing circle). My energy therapist colleagues and I aim to offer our clients more far-reaching benefits than conventional approaches. For example, even non-verbal experiences and trans-generational trauma can be reached – issues which are so difficult to access in conventional talking therapy that they are typically ignored. EP helps you clear the negativity of the past and shifts your energy to where you wish to be.
How is it different from other kinds of therapy?
Energy Psychotherapy provides a holistic and embodied form of therapy. Most therapists agree on the importance of the body in their work, it’s just a question of how we bring the body into the conversation.
If you’ve had therapy before, the work we do will be recognisably like other forms of therapy in so far as we make connections between the past and present and discuss future goals of where you would like to be.
The focus and the practicalities will feel a bit different: I will help you reach the heart of the matter – i.e. you won’t be left feeling like you’re floundering in the dark.
Also the embodied exercises may be a bit different to your previous experiences in therapy – these help you release the negative energy (clear the negative) and reclaim your positive energy (access and install positive resources).
Which Energy Psychotherapy techniques do I use?
I have a generic training in energy psychotherapy: Certificate in Energy Psychotherapy: Energy Psychology Techniques for Psychotherapists and other mental health professionals (2014), which means I have an excellent overview of the whole genre.
The modalities I use most are: Tapping, Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT); Radomski’s Ask & Receive; and Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP). The modality I have done the most training in is Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) and I am a certified AIT practitioner. I have also devised my own energy modality which is called Invitation to Healing (ITH).
The similarities between EMDR and AIT
There are certain similarities between Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR):
both are embodied trauma therapies used within a psychotherapeutic framework.
both recognise that trauma is held in the body and talking alone is not usually a sufficiently effective therapeutic approach.
both help you to “digest” unprocessed memories, experiences, emotions, through implementing an embodied activity.
both can be useful when working with flashbacks, body-memories, nightmares and other post traumatic experiences.
We follow the charge, or follow the energy, until your difficulty has eased and you feel a shift.
