Modalities
Depth Somatic Psychotherapy
Depth somatic therapy integrates depth psychology with body-centered somatic techniques like Integral Somatic Psychology and yoga therapy, to explore the unconscious mind and release trauma, stress, and emotional patterns held in the body. This is a non-pathologizing form of therapy. It goes beyond surface-level talk therapy by connecting a client's deeper psychological complexes and past experiences to their physical sensations, allowing for a holistic approach to healing. The therapy uses mindful-awareness, breathwork, movement, rest and restore practices, to support embodied awareness, exploration and reprocessing. Mind, Body, Soul and Spirit integration. This method includes the integration of mythology, archetypes, dreams, and the imagination. This approach is effective in treating a wide range of conditions, including: Anxiety disorders, Depression, Phobias, C-PTSD and Relationship difficulties. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
IFS - Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiplicity of parts within each person’s psyche. The part’s intentions are always loving and good, but the perspective and perceptions may be outdated. These parts or facets of self may be wounded, disempowered or untrusting. There also may be parts that need to maintain control and to lovingly protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. There may be unconscious conflict between parts and with a person's Self knowing. The Self being the confident, compassionate, whole integrated part of each person. The work is to bring the parts into conscious awareness and to work with the wisest, highest self to achieve resolution and potentially reprocessing. This can result in restoring mental balance and harmony through consciousness, thereby changing the dynamics that create unconscious discord among the parts and the Self. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a non-pathologising, powerfully transformative, evidence-based model and approach to healing. This approach has been effective in treating, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex-PTSD, Anxiety disorders, Depression, Phobias, and Relationship difficulties.All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/internal-family-systems-therapy
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to reprocess conscious and unconscious traumatic memories. Unlike other treatments that focus on directly altering the emotions, thoughts and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, EMDR therapy focuses directly on the memory, and is intended to change the way that the memory is stored in the brain, thus reducing and eliminating the problematic symptoms. Through evidence based research studies, EMDR has shown that the mind finds resolution or healing much like the body, in fact it is designed to resolve trauma. Much like with the body, the mind has an intrinsic ability to heal, resolve and return to full function. If you have a cut, your body does the work to close the wound, however if something impedes healing, the cut becomes inflamed causing pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. The same is true for the mind. Within the eight step process, clients participate in a process to activate the healing of their mind. The process can be done over months or in intensive formats, however the results generally produce long-term resolution. EMDR has been shown to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions, including: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Anxiety disorders, Depression, Phobias, and Relationship difficulties. EMDR is an evidence-based therapy, meaning that it has been supported by numerous scientific studies. The American Psychological Association (APA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recommend EMDR as a treatment for PTSD. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments/eye-movement-reprocessing
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a focused treatment method designed to identify, process and release core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, and a variety of other conscious and unconscious material. Brainspotting is a neurobiological tool to support clinical healing. In this model therapeutic attunement or the relational elements of therapy are imperative. Brainspotting supports the client and the clinician to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that may be out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity. It is a model used for pre-verbal experiences or those where words were not accessible. Brainspotting has been shown to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions, including: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Anxiety disorders, Depression, Phobias, and Relationship difficultiesThe Brainspotting process includes the body, the mind, an attuned clinician along with bi-lateral stimulation. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://brainspotting.com/about-brainspotting/what-is-brainspotting/
Integral Somatic Psychology
Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) is a body-oriented psychological approach that teaches people to fully embody and increase their tolerance for emotions, accelerating healing and improving outcomes across various aspects of life. The science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior in affective neuroscience and cognitive psychology illustrates how our thoughts, feelings, and actions are dependent not just on our brain but also on our body and our environment. Lack of involvement of our body can compromise our well-being and ability to resolve trauma. Additionally, based on the research of embodied emotions within neuroscience, the more the body is blocked from being involved in emotional experiences, the more difficulty the brain has in processing the situation, not only emotionally but also cognitively and behaviourally. By integrating elements of mindfulness, trauma therapy, and bodywork, it helps individuals become more aware of their body's sensations, movements, and physiological responses to emotions. This approach has been shown to be effective in expanding an individual's window of tolerance.The window of tolerance is a concept developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD to describe the optimal zone of “arousal” for a person to function in everyday life. Operation within this zone or window, allows an individual to reasonably and effectively manage and cope with their emotions. ISP works to enhance therapeutic effectiveness by working with the body's defenses and energetic systems, enabling clients to experience, process, and integrate a broader range of feelings. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://integralsomaticpsychology.com/what-is-integral-somatic-psychology/
https://www.nicabm.com/trauma-how-to-help-your-clients-understand-their-window-of-tolerance/
Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy is the professional application of yogic tools like postures, breathwork, and meditative practices integrated with the philosophical elements of yoga, to address an individual's physical, mental, and emotional health needs. Using the proper therapeutic applications, yoga therapy can help with musculoskeletal imbalances, chronic pain, autoimmune disease, anxiety, depression, eating disordered behavior, and cancer treatment. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://www.iayt.org/page/YTT_Landing
Eco-Psychology and Energy Healing
Eco psychology is an approach to psychotherapy that explores the relationship between human well-being and the collective via the natural world, emphasizing the interconnectedness of humans, the planet and the cosmos. It draws from psychology, ecology, environmental science, philosophy, shamanism, and mysticism to understand how humans' emotional, cognitive, and spiritual experiences are influenced by nature.The practice explores the health benefits of a connection to nature, the therapeutic potential of ecotherapy, and the development of a mature "ecological ego" or Self that recognizes his/her/their interconnected experience with nature, the planet and the cosmos. This approach is deeply rooted in indigenous wisdom traditions, energy healing, and post-Jungian psychology. This approach has been shown to be effective in treating: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Anxiety disorders, Depression, Phobias, and Relationship difficulties. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://ies.bio/ecopsychology/what-is-ecopsychology/
Attachment-Based Healing
Attachment-based therapy is a brief, process-oriented form of counseling. Grounded in the notion that our early experiences with attachment figures shape the perceptions and actions we develop in adult relationships. If our first connection feels insecure, we can develop maladaptive ways of viewing the world, others, and ourselves. Attachment-based therapy focuses on the awareness and integration of the effects of these early relationships on our ability to lead healthy adult relationships, as well as their influence on our motivation and success. The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions. Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that will help prevent or treat mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.
https://www.attachmentproject.com/psychology/attachment-based-therapy/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/attachment-based-therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrNqV3Kj0c0&t=570s
Polyvegal-Informed Therapy
Polyvagal therapy is a theoretical and neurophysiological approach to understanding and treating mental health conditions, especially those related to trauma and stress. It is based on the polyvagal theory, which proposes that the human nervous system has three interconnected circuits:
Social Engagement System: Facilitates connection, safety, and relaxation.
Mobilization (Fight-or-Flight) System: Activates in response to perceived threats, preparing the body to fight or flee.
Immobilization (Freeze) System: Initiates a shutdown response when the other two systems are overwhelmed.
These interconnected systems have functional and dysfunctional expressions. This is a non-pathologizing framework when interpreted correctly. All modalities and integrations associated with Embodied Soul Psychotherapy are evidence based, polyvegal, and attachment informed.