English 
Français 
It is essentially in and through the body that all our life experiences are lived, felt and memorised – like to be loved, to be cared for, to be hurt, to be abandoned, to be overwhelmed, or to be controlled. It is where we experience pleasure, and it is where we experience trauma, accidents, and so forth. Our bodies, our cells, always remember, even when our mind forgets. To survive the inevitable frustrations, whether minor or major, that we encounter in our lives, we create defenses in our body: it becomes tense and painful. It is also where we manifest our discomfort and dis-eases. Body psychotherapy helps release trauma and tension, freeing the body, the energy and the Self.
I started to study psychotherapy – and embarked on my own transformational journey – in June 1993, after a major personal crisis. I have never stopped studying since. I discovered that talking sessions could meet our need for contact: talking, being heard, being listened to, and being understood.
However, for a therapy to be truly efficient and to give lasting results, each part of our consciousness in the mind needs to be followed by an awakening experience anchored in the body.
Amongst many other professional therapy modalities like Gestalt and Carl Rogers, I studied Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) in Belgium at the IPCI for 4 years and worked there as a training assistant for a further 3 years. To deepen my learning, I then studied energy healing for 4 years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing Europe, where I experienced and acquired many other tools for body work and consciousness.
Today my body psychotherapy approach is a fully integrative body-emotions-mind-spirit therapy. It integrates the best of what I studied and experienced myself within these last 18 years. My approach is mainly inspired by IBP, by the work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, Core Energetics (Dr. John Pierrakos), Pathwork (Eva Pierrakos), Bio-Energy and the tools developed by Alexander Lowen and Wilhelm Reich, the 5 Rhythms Dance (Gabrielle Roth), and the sacred healing sounds that I learned with Jan Janssen. When needed or upon demand, I also include energy healing with the body work.
My purpose is to facilitate the personal Healing process that you have initiated and to help you heal your wounds and become fully healthy, conscious, embodied, free, creative and alive. To help you open your heart, feel loved, unified and become the Light that you Are!
Also in this section:
