It is you the client, according to Carl Rogers (the originator of person centred and experiential approches to counselling), who holds the key to all the wisdom needed for change to occur What he means is that it is not just up to the efforts of an expert to give you the answers to your problem but that it is you and your motivation to change that makes the therapy work. It is only you that knows what hurts or feels out of harmony and I can honestly say I have witnessed over and over that given sufficient supportive relational conditions people have vast resources of self understanding This is what Rogers calls our 'self organising wisdom' - and certainly part of my role is to faciltate tha
Many counsellors consciously encourage a self reflective relationship with the body as part of the process of tuning into what can be observed and understood as we work together with people Something you really get to work with and learn from when you practice TRE is the power of that visceral reality Tension and trauma is not only taken up by the mind psychologically it is taken up by the body too To put it another way the meaning of what Antonio Demazio say's when he writes ''the mind is embodied not embrained' is made very tangible Introducing a TRE session can fit well with ongoing counselling work or vice versa Building capacity for self regulation and self reflection are fou
