Perhaps you are Suffering from the Impact of Chronic Stress on the Mind-Body?
Are you waking up in the middle of the night or experiencing extreme indecision? At an emotional level, are you feeling deeply overwhelmed with fear or grief? Perhaps, you are rejecting of your experience and feeling depressed? It may even be hard to reach out and seek help!
Irrespective of your experience, psychotherapy provides a supportive, collaborative pathway towards healing and growth – towards greater self acceptance and ease.
Working in partnership with you, we explore your unique experiences (your fears, pains, losses and desires) and uncover habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that may be holding you back. Through respectful exploration, I help you to find more fulfilling ways of being.
As well as working verbally, I engage with your dynamic bodily experiences: pattern of breathing, posture, movement or body sensations. I pay particular attention to emotions in the body, as they are central to our experience of the world and how we interact with it. Many of us have learned to suppress our emotions, while others have become overwhelmed by our emotions. Irrespective of whether we experience an emotional desert or feel flooded, I work with you to facilitate bringing the emotional aspects into a state of equilibrium with the rest of your unique mind-body self.
Through this transformational process, my clients report discovering a greater freedom to be more authentic with self and others.
The Benefits of Psychotherapy include:
- Greater acceptance of the mind-body self
- Relief from internal distress and trauma
- Improved relationships
- Easier resolution to specific problems
- Improved self esteem
Therapy room 2 Booth Street Balmain
About Me
I am a member of the Somatic Psychotherapy Australia community and Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) – PACFA Reg. Clinical 22371. I belong to the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and practice in accordance with the stringent ethical guidelines of PACFA.
I am a fully qualified Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapist, trained in self-psychology/intersubjectivity and mindfulness. In this approach, I attune to your experience and respond in a relational manner. Together we understand, reflect and transform. My work is grounded in the latest research in neurobiology, trauma theory, developmental and attachment theory. I hold a Masters in Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, a Diploma of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy, B.Sc. (Hons I) and MBA.
My work with survivors of complex trauma is well described in the Survivors of Complex Trauma Video on the Adult Survivors of Child Abuse website. I am registered with Victim Services NSW as an approved counsellor.
Veronik Verkest PACFA Reg. Clinical 22371
