Core Energetics: My Somatic Therapy Approach
Core Energetics is the specific somatic therapy modality I use in my body-psychotherapy practice. It's a synthesis of body-oriented psychotherapy and spiritual development that addresses both trauma healing and personal growth.
Core Energetics creates awareness of how we block our life energy and maintain defense patterns acquired in childhood. It shows us how these patterns limit and disempower us, and helps us understand that these blocked energy patterns largely influence our lives and our worldview.
These very patterns cause us to repeatedly experience similar life situations and relationship dynamics that frustrate and trap us. Core Energetics helps identify and dissolve these energetic blockages so we can experience more freedom, aliveness, and authentic connection.
„Know that if you don’t have pleasure, it is because you have lost your truth. Pleasure is the ultimate goal and curative agent of life!“
John Pierrakos (Core Energetics Founder)
_____ Body-Psychotherapy & Somatic Therapy
If you feel stuck in your head, disconnected from your body, or caught in patterns that no longer serve you, body-psychotherapy and somatic therapy offer a different path forward.
What is Body-Psychotherapy?
Body-psychotherapy is a holistic, body-oriented therapy approach that goes beyond traditional talk therapy. Also known as somatic therapy or body-centered therapy, this therapeutic method recognizes that trauma and emotional experiences are stored in the body, not just the mind.
One of its key elements is body awareness—learning to really feel yourself and develop interoceptive awareness. When you start sensing and feeling yourself, you begin to truly know yourself. This embodied self-knowledge becomes the foundation for development, change, and transformational healing processes.
Like all deep therapeutic approaches, body-psychotherapy is longer-term support for healing processes on different levels. Some of these processes are already conscious, but many remain hidden in the unconscious mind and nervous system. These deeper shifts take time and need your commitment to evolve and grow, to face both your suffering and your greatness.
How Somatic Therapy is Different
The difference from other forms of therapy lies mostly in how we work with the body and the therapeutic relationship itself. This relationship is crucial because our deepest wounds happen in connection with our caregivers—we get wounded in relationship. And that's exactly why healing also happens in relationship. We can't heal relational wounds or trauma on our own because they are inherently relational. It's a process of getting out of your head and into your body — and into connection.
This body-centered approach is for anyone who wants to experience themselves more fully — their aliveness, their pleasure. It's for those ready to release physical and mental stress, heal from trauma, and develop themselves further, both professionally and personally.
The Body Holds Everything: Trauma-Informed Healing
When we use somatic interventions and body-oriented techniques, our awareness of suppressed feelings and stored trauma expands. We can integrate and move beyond limiting beliefs and learned patterns. Working with the body as a tool — instead of just the mind — makes our fixed thought and behavior patterns much clearer.
This brings awareness to how we block our life energy and reveals the defense patterns we learned in childhood. These patterns still limit and disempower us as adults. We begin to see the relationship dynamics we create with ourselves and others — how we repeatedly experience similar situations that leave us frustrated, unfulfilled, and tired.
Through somatic approaches and body-oriented therapy, we mobilize our physical energy in new ways. This changes both our inner world and our outer experience of life in lasting ways. Working with the body is crucial for healing because our resistance, belief systems, patterns, and emotional reactions aren't just stored in our minds — they live powerfully in our nervous system and body tissue.
What Opens Up Through Body-Centered Healing
This holistic healing approach supports us in discovering unknown inner resources, expressing our creativity, accepting our sexuality, and deepening our connection to ourselves and others. Somatic therapy helps restore the natural flow of aliveness and pleasure that trauma and stress can block.
Starting Your Body-Psychotherapy Journey
To truly understand this work, you need to experience it. The therapeutic process always begins with an 'Intake Session' followed by 5 appointments before making any long-term commitment to ongoing therapy.
Healing is a deep practice. It takes time, patience, intention, practice, devotion, compassion, support, and care. If this resonates with you, we might be meant to work together.
Why Body-Oriented and Somatic Therapy Work
Body-therapeutic work makes tangible what you may have already understood intellectually about your patterns and trauma responses. It helps you realize, experience, feel, and sense what is actually moving within your nervous system and body.
Research shows that everything you have ever experienced — including trauma — is stored somewhere in your body and nervous system. When you learn to listen to your body's signals and the wisdom inherent in it — when you give space to your feelings and somatic experiences — you gain deeper access to yourself. Over time, you feel more and more alive, satisfied, and at peace with yourself and what is.
The truth is, attitudes, behaviors, and feelings can rarely be changed sustainably through the mind alone. To learn and heal, we need new embodied experiences. From these experiences, we can draw new ways of being, new possibilities and choices. These support us in connecting more deeply — beyond our masks and defense patterns — with the core of our being, our authentic self.
To let our energy, aliveness, and pleasure flow more freely again on all levels — not just mentally, but physically, emotionally, and energetically—we need more than our mind. We need to connect with the parts where we're blocked, where we hold trauma and tension, to free up our energy and its natural flow. And that's why the work is body-oriented and somatic.
