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life juncture
Nov. 21st, 2002 12:45 amI find myself at a very interesting time in my life. Having just recently received my degree in counselling, I now have accredited foundations in both talk therapy and touch therapy, thereby completing my Plan from 6 years ago. I've been pondering what comes next for a long time, put actually passing the threshold of graduation gives that thinking a very fresh feeling.
Newest current thoughts:
-Many people find themselves with feelings or memories coming up during bodywork, who are frustrated when they try to talk to their (touch) therapist about it. I could market myself as a bodyworker who can help them access that material in a way they're already familiar with, but also engage as a talk therapist whenever they need to.
-I feel some degree of anxiety about not having much structure to offer a client about how to make use of me as both a touch therapist and a talk therapist. This is not a stopper though -- I had the same anxiety starting counselling as well. There were few awkward times, but I've done fine, and I've gotten lots of positive feedback about peoples' experience of working with me.
-There's lots of mind/body disciplines out there that I'm now in a great position to acquire and make available to people where relevant, and I can be guided in my choices by... whatever I'm most interested to learn! (As opposed to whatever "makes the most sense" for me to learn, given where I've gotten to -- which I think is how I've tended to think about the "what next" question 'til recently.) Two particular workshops I'd be most interested in right now would be (making up titles here): "Bodywork with Abuse Survivors" and "Facilitating Body-Awareness".
Newest current thoughts:
-Many people find themselves with feelings or memories coming up during bodywork, who are frustrated when they try to talk to their (touch) therapist about it. I could market myself as a bodyworker who can help them access that material in a way they're already familiar with, but also engage as a talk therapist whenever they need to.
-I feel some degree of anxiety about not having much structure to offer a client about how to make use of me as both a touch therapist and a talk therapist. This is not a stopper though -- I had the same anxiety starting counselling as well. There were few awkward times, but I've done fine, and I've gotten lots of positive feedback about peoples' experience of working with me.
-There's lots of mind/body disciplines out there that I'm now in a great position to acquire and make available to people where relevant, and I can be guided in my choices by... whatever I'm most interested to learn! (As opposed to whatever "makes the most sense" for me to learn, given where I've gotten to -- which I think is how I've tended to think about the "what next" question 'til recently.) Two particular workshops I'd be most interested in right now would be (making up titles here): "Bodywork with Abuse Survivors" and "Facilitating Body-Awareness".
