Feldenkrais Method & Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Comparing notes with clinical psychologist Aspasia Karageorge
I recently had the pleasure of being in conversation with Aspasia Karageorge, a clinical psychologist in Sydney Australia who offers her clients Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
We bumped into each other online recently and she got interested in learning more about what I do as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method.
She told me at the outset that she had an intuition that there was a lot of parallels in our work - and it turned out to be true!
Which was fascinating because there are also so many differences.
It reinforced an insight I've been having repeatedly over the last few years, that despite the wide variety of practices people do to improve well-being, there are some consistent threads that seem to show up again and again:
Slowing down time to see/feel/experience more detail
Clarifying habitual patterns and their consequences
Mapping the ways we try to avoid discomfort
Doing the necessary relational work to build trust
Exploring non-habitual patterns gradually to maintain safety
Developing the courage to turn towards discomfort
Using the imagination as a staging ground for new actions
This was a great demonstration of why it’s a fool's errand to separate mind and body!
Aspasia and I have a different emphases in our work, but in the end, we both work in both realms. This was a fascinating, generative discussion and we plan to talk again.
Below is a short clip as well as the full conversation.