Psychotherapy - Energywork

Networking this basic approach in therapeutical daily life

The perception of energy is closely related to the psychotherapeutical work. As psychotherapists we have daily contact, consciously or unconsciously, with energies. We perceive energy as wake, blocks, flow, coldness, heat, prickling and sometimes even visual. Energetic experiences are also expressed during the communication between psychotherapist and client. Information such as

• strengthening the back

• loose the ground from under one's feet,

• loosing ground,

• be without backing, etc

explicitly guide us to where energetic deficits exist.

With a range of verbal, nonverbal and body-centered means the ^®-Technique offers supportive psychotherapeutic possibilities of intervention. That the therapist acts in a sovereign way, with clear awareness, intuition, feeling and creativity, is nowadays the most important prerequisite. Recognizing the psychodynamic process and applying this approach requires exercise but offers an additional therapeutical tool for daily work. Two examples:

Working on resistance can easily result in a standstill through the perception of resistance as such as well as through the perception of its individual biographic origin. Beyond the possibility to allow the resistance go away in its own pace, working with energies is helpful and relieving for therapists and clients alike.

In therapeutical professions we encounter abuse (sexual, emotional, energetic, etc.) explicitly as "fear of touch" at these levels. The handling is delicate, can easily be misunderstood by the client and is therefore difficult for the therapist. The^®-Technique is a highly sensible and highly esteemed instrument in passing this painful process of the "victim/doer-problems", making conscious its problematic nature and, as far as possible, resolving it.

Ingeborg Hildebrandt, psychotherapist, teacher therapist and supervisor, training in client oriented psychotherapy according to C. Rogers, body-centered psychotherapy according to W. Reich, trainings in Focusing, Biodynamic, Gestalt and Dreamwork. She was managing the centers for crisis intervention in Vienna and she was board member responsible for the curriculum on body-centered psychotherapy in Austria.