Sexual Trauma and Abuse
Sourcing someone whom you can seek guidance & find resourcefulness, will be a major part on that journey.
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Help for Sexual Trauma and Abuse
Anxiety Issues
Sexual Issues
Scar tissue
Traumatic Experiences
Sexual Abuse
emotional wounds
Healing for Sexual Trauma and Abuse.
Finding resolution to such a traumatic experience is both paramount & precious . Trusting another, in that support for your healing can change lives. This not only has an effect on the self, but how we relate & therefor effects those close to us.
Sourcing someone whom you can seek guidance & find resourcefulness, will be a major part on that journey.
Debbie Ellis, one of only a few, well trained therapists is available for professional consultations.
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What Is PST?
“The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand:
if you want to know how the wind is blowing,
you can look at the sand”
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Psychosexual Somatics® Therapy (PST) is an evolutionary, body-oriented therapeutic modality dealing with sexual and intimacy issues, developed by Mike Lousada. Unlike many somatic sexology trainings, PST approaches sexuality through the heart, not through the genitals. It is a unique combination of psychotherapeutic and bodywork disciplines, based on the understanding that most sexual issues present as a combination of cognitive (mind) and somatic (body) symptoms. It is only by addressing both mind and body, therefore, that full resolution can be achieved.
Using the latest understandings from neuro-science PST has developed a neuro- affective relational model that makes it ideally suited to safely help resolve client’s sexual, emotional and medical trauma. Through a combination of talk work and bodywork these, as well as non-traumatic intimacy issues, can be resolved. This allows the client to move into a more empowered relationship with their sexuality.
Five Stages
A therapeutic process may contain one or more of the following five stages:
- Cognitive Approach: Awareness of cognitive and affective issues through psychotherapeutic processes.
- Somatic Awareness: Connecting clients with sensation and emotions in their body through somatic mindfulness and other non-touch techniques.
- Physical Release: Of somatic and affective blocks and trauma through physical therapy.
- Erotic Mindfulness: Helps the client access their own inner erotic energy and notice any remaining resistances to this.
- Sexual Awakening: Sexual response and empowerment through pre-agreed touch, breath, sound and movement techniques.
PST offers a clearly boundaries, safe therapeutic space in which clients are supported to resolve intimacy issues both within the mind and the body. The model uses safe, powerful, quick and effective techniques to allow the client to understand their old, limiting patterns from the past, how these affect their present situation, and empowers them to make positive changes for their future.
How Does PST Work with Sexual Trauma?
PST uses a scientific and knowledge-based approach. It is inevitable that when we work with sexuality, clients with trauma will come into our practice. Many alternative or new age approaches to sexuality, such as tantra and de-armouring practices, focus on the experience of expansion and of ‘pushing through’ resistances. This type of approach has been shown not only to be ineffective in the long-run but also potentially harmful to the client.
In contrast, PST never forces or pushes through resistance or ‘body armouring’. Instead it honours these as important aspects of self and supports the client to allow these places to open in their own time, when witnessed with loving gentleness. The client leads this process and the PST practitioner is trained to observe the clients neural regulation or dis-regulation ensuring that the client does not expand or push through any embodied resistance too fast.
PST also emphasises the importance not only of expansion, but also of integration. It is this dual pulsation of expansion and integration that makes PST a uniquely safe approach to working with sexual trauma.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Debbie Ellis?
Established in 1997, her wealth of knowledge and applied techniques using Physiotherapy, electrotherapy, sports therapy, Manual lymphatic drainage (Both Voder & Grace Haliday methods), NLP, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Reiki, CranioSacral (CST) & SomotoEmotionalal Therapy (SER), Visceral Manipulation, Advanced CST, Access Bars, PsychoSexual Therapy (PST) are part of the continuing list of applications for your health & well being.
What if I need to cancel my appointment?
You can cancel you appointment via email or a phone call. All I require is 48 hours notice.
I am unsure which treatment would be best?
Just get in touch with me, via the email or telephone. With many years in the profession I can help with the best suited therapy for you. This could be a mixture of different therapies which will be tailored especially for you and your own needs.
What is PST?
Psychosexual Somatics® Therapy (PST) is an evolutionary, body-oriented therapeutic modality dealing with sexual and intimacy issues, developed by Mike Lousada. Unlike many somatic sexology trainings, PST approaches sexuality through the heart, not through the genitals. It is a unique combination of psychotherapeutic and bodywork disciplines, based on the understanding that most sexual issues present as a combination of cognitive (mind) and somatic (body) symptoms. It is only by addressing both mind and body, therefore, that full resolution can be achieved.
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