New York Society for Bioenergetic Analysis

Whether you are considering individual therapy for the first time or have had previous therapy, choosing a therapy is a difficult decision. What you desire to accomplish will influence the type of therapy you choose and the time and energy you decide to dedicate to it. Bioenergetic Therapy provides an in-depth body-mind approach to facilitate your growth in one or more of these areas:

• desiring in-depth personal growth
• resolving relationship difficulties
• freeing oneself from dysfunctional family issues
• emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, fear
• addressing past trauma or abuse issues
• becoming self-accepting and assertive
• reducing stress and the effects of stress on the body
• integrating one's emotions and thought process
• increasing one's energy level and pleasure in living

Bioenergetic Therapy for Therapists: As a therapist, whether or not you practice a body-mind therapy, you may be interested in deepening your personal therapeutic process as well as your clinical work with clients. Bioenergetics offers a method to explore, on a body level, issues previously addressed or issues not yet reached or resolved through traditional verbal therapies. Often this work speaks to preverbal experiences that are beyond the reach of verbal therapies. Bioenergetics addresses what is communicated through nonverbal gestures, movements, and even the form of one's body.

Bioenergetics prepares the therapist to better utilize issues of transference and countertransference as a tool rather than as resistance. When therapists deepen their own personal therapy they become more ready and able to identify and work with similar issues in their clients. If such issues are not conscious they may, in some way, block the therapeutic progress of the client.

Additionally, Bioenergetic Therapy can assist therapists to release--on physical, emotional, and psychological levels--the issues that we carry for our clients. This release will help prevent or alleviate therapist burn-out or compassion fatigue.

Benefits of Bioenergetic Therapy: Bioenergetic Therapy offers an in-depth approach to addressing emotional conflicts and problems of daily living through its integrated approach of working with the whole person: body, mind and spirit. While Bioenergetics does not treat specific symptoms or diseases, clients often experience a reduction of physical problems such as various aches, chronic stress, fatigue, and stomach or respiratory problems. At the same time, clients experience increased health, energy, and vitality.

Whether you are a new client, a former client, or a therapist, the Certified Bioenergetic Therapist is dedicated to serving you respectfully, safely, and competently.

When you have no words for your feelings, for what happened to you, for what is missing in you, we listen to the inner resonance--of your inchoate secrets--as they live in your body. We help you to sense and amplify this inner resonance until its movement comes close enough to the surface of your being to enter your consciousness.

But we also listen carefully to your words and we are touched by them when they come from a depth of your being that no one can put a hand on. We invite you to surrender to the spirit of your body and the body of your spirit--and in doing so, to embrace your true self. Robert Lewis, M.D., IIBA International Faculty