Mindbody Wisdom, Psychotherapy, Yoga, Breath & Meditation

Psychotherapy provides a path towards understanding ourselves and the life we have been living. To know oneself on deeper levels is to embrace life in all its aspects and to begin to create the life we most desire, perhaps the life we are meant to be living.

Through this work we can travel the uncharted waters of our unconscious and move with confidence into that which is hidden inside ourselves and that which calls out for recognition.

With 40 years of experience working with the body, I am particularly drawn to somatic based psychotherapy. It involves inquiry and exploration into the felt senses and perhaps imagery and inner knowing.

In connecting to our mindbody, we learn that we are much more than our thoughts, perceptions and history.

Some of the ways I apply my skills:

Focusing – body centred, non-judgemental, open attention to a felt sense or deeper knowing, leading to new insights, integrations, relationship and reclamation.

Mindbody practices to move towards alleviating chronic pain, anxiety, and other chronic conditions. This work may include: inner child connecting, Focusing, breath rhythms and writing.

Mindfulness Based Inquiry

Clinical Hypnosis

Breath & Meditation

Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)

Embodied Experiential Dreamwork

Body Listening – a tool to plumb the often hidden depths of the bodymind. It has naturally evolved out of my studies in movement & meditation, and my own years of personal practice.

Essentially it is a quiet, guided exercise where where one can drop beneath the internal chatter of thoughts and relate to the body’s wisdom. Through varying questions and inquiry, one can access deeply held feelings and beliefs, as well as the  richness of deeper understanding.

The head thinks, but the body knows.

“Unless you know your body – feel it, sense it, rather than deny it – you can’t go beyond the still picture you have of yourself” – Mirka Knaster

Janice is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario