'The Body Speaks It’s Mind', presented by Margaret Landale

This seminar is intended for counselling practitioners and other interested professionals.

Advances in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment and trauma research have highlighted that many of the issues clients bring into therapy are somatically rooted.

This workshop offers an opportunity for clinical inquiry into how we might work safely with embodied experience within the therapeutic relationship. We will explore how to pay attention to non-verbal communication and support our client’s capacity for somatic and felt awareness. There will also be a focus on transference considerations when shifting attention to the body.

The workshop will offer a practical focus for exploring clinical scenarios, especially in areas such as complex trauma and somatization disorders.

About Margaret Landale

Margaret Landale has been working as a psychotherapist for over thirty years. She is a UKCP accredited supervisor, has been a training director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in London and delivers a range of workshops and talks nationwide.

Having been a meditator for many years, she has become increasingly interested in the integration of mindfulness in psychotherapy. She holds a masters in mindfulness and has taught on the ‘mindfulness in individual psychotherapy’ module at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University.

Publications include: ‘Working with psychosomatic distress and developmental trauma’ in: Contemporary Body Psychotherapy – The Chiron Approach, Linda Hartley ed., Routledge 2009. ‘The use of imagery in body oriented psychotherapy’ in Body Psychotherapy, Tree Staunton ed., Brunner-Routledge, 2002.

Host or Publisher The Counselling Foundation CPDs