WomanCare is now focused on life counseling. I am accepting a limited number of clients for this practice.
As with all my practice over the years, my counseling care is holistically based. I appreciate you in all your aspects: mind, spirit, body. I am a Certified Practitioner of Compassionate Inquiry, the trauma informed approach to counseling developed from the work of Gabor Maté.
Compassionate Inquiry (CI) is a somatic (body) based approach which helps the client to connect with the strong emotions which we store in the body. The body holds on to our emotional pain, our traumas. The trauma informed understandings of Peter Levine and Bessel Van Der Kolk developed in the 1990s first appreciated this truth. The body is an access point to helping us understand and ultimately relieve unprocessed difficult life events.
Exploring your concerns in a safe, non-judgmental environment, physical sensations can lead you to thoughts and beliefs that were created in your childhood. These core beliefs began as a survival mechanism when we were young and in need of parental attachment. If left unexplored and unheard they continue to rule our lives, often not in the most optimal fashion.
CI helps the client to recognize their limiting beliefs and the patterns of behavior that flow from them. These beliefs formed in childhood. The work is softening these beliefs through the release of unconsciously stored emotion, increased self-awareness, connection to yourself, to the present moment and allowing for the possibility of response flexibility. The ability to respond to a triggering event in a new, flexible, and more positive way.
Triggers are signposts to embodied trauma. We know we are triggered when we react to a situation from zero to sixty in a millisecond. Triggers are never about what sets us off, they are about unresolved pain from the past which the current situation is reminding us of. Often unconsciously. If the issues were resolved, we would be able to rationally react to the challenging situation rather than fly off the handle-internally or externally.
CI is a powerful approach to help one see one’s core beliefs, understand where these beliefs originated and to direct healing to these generally young and very stuck parts of our being.
If you are feeling that you keep getting in the way of yourself, and don’t know how to change it. Or if you can’t see why your life isn’t going the way that you have hoped it would. If you keep getting triggered into anger, depression, anxiety or isolation, and you appreciate that you need to change your patterns: Compassionate Inquiry provides powerful tools for exploration, self-understanding and growth.
This is a very new modality of self understanding. It was developed from the work of Gabor Maté M.D. by Sat Dharam Kaur a naturopathic physician and author. The CI approach has been taught since 2019.
How to schedule appointment
To inquire about scheduling an appointment please email me at claudiasencer@gmail.com.
All sessions are 50 minutes in length they can be in person at my office or on line via Zoom. Please note, insurance does not cover this care.
My fee is $140. I do have sliding scale for those in financial need.
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