This helpful book offers couples therapists new and powerful techniques derived from several body-oriented therapies. It draws on core energetics, biodynamic analysis, formative psychology, Hakomi, and Gestalt. Learn the healing skills of body-oriented therapies, including centering yourself before sessions, giving voice to your clients' three selves (lower, higher, and mask), doing effective energy assessments, and using concentration exercises and grounding techniques. Plentifully illustrated with case studies, Couples and Body Therapy is a breakthrough in counseling troubled couples.

Contents

• Preface
• Virginia Satir and Body-Mind-Soul
• Grounding in Couples Core Energetic Therapy
• Core Energetic Couples Therapy: An Integrated Approach
• Sexuality and Intimacy in Couples Therapy: The Journey of the Soul
• Keeping It Up
• Couples Therapy as a Formative Process
• Touch in Psychotherapy
• Body Psychotherapy with Couples: Using the Seven Developmental Stages Model of Bodynamic Analysis
• Working Experientially and Somatically with Couples
• Method Acting and Gestalt Therapy with Couples
• Index
• Reference Notes Included