Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Blue Mountains
Katoomba, Blue Mountains
Connecting to the body’s intuitive knowing
Listening to the body to create meaningful and lasting change
Both our body and our mind are continuously monitoring and interpreting the world. However, the way our body perceives the world is quite different from how our mind does. The body perceives much more immediately with an inherent pragmatism and clarity, offering a completely different type of intelligence to the thinking mind. Listening to this perspective enables us to live a more truthful life with less tension.
The body’s intuitive intelligence
The body’s perspective is often felt but ignored or explained away by the mind. Simple examples of this may include feeling “off” after a social encounter, having butterflies before speaking to someone, or more sustained body processes such as anxiety or depression. These different physical experiences indicate a tension between the two different ways of understanding the world. This tension can be relaxed by learning to listen to what the body has to say and taking seriously what is being said.
The language of the body
The body does not speak in words but communicates through physical processes that can be felt. Listening to the body requires cultivating a particular type of awareness. In my work as a psychotherapist, I have found that helping people develop this type of awareness leads to the most authentic and powerful capacity for change and growth. This awareness enables people to better perceive the world around them and better understand themselves. Perceiving with the body is a skill that can be learned and then used continuously throughout life.
FAQ
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Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Graduate Diploma of Counselling
Bachelor of Psychological Studies
Accredited with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
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I engage with the deeper levels of knowing already within a person, currently not in awareness. This is achieved by exploring cues present in the body or imagination that, when ready, are brought forward into consciousness. In this way, it is a way of drawing on inherent, unutilised wisdom the person already holds.
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I am trained in Processwork, which is a type of Jungian depth psychotherapy that utilises cues present in the body to access unconscious processes via the imagination. Additionally, I work with directly perceiving communications from the body. I do this by helping people cultivate a particular type of awareness that enables access to their own body’s intuitive knowing.
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My approach is not tailored to specific mental health issues. This approach is for people who are serious about creating the changes they need in their lives. This is not for temporary relief of a particular symptom but long-term resilience and the capacity to make difficult decisions in the present and the future.
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The philosophy is simply the belief that awareness enables a person to heal. By becoming more aware of what exists within us, we naturally arrive at our own personal solutions. Becoming more aware of ourselves cultivates a deeper sense of meaning and purpose helping us to become more personally resilient.
Rowan Druce
Somatic Psychotherapist and counsellor
I have spent many years turning inwards, working to unravel the mysteries that lie within. This has included extensive personal psychotherapy and bodywork with accomplished healers and therapists. This personal work has enabled me to see more clearly the inner processes within myself, and also others. It is from my experience of these more elusive layers of myself that I have cultivated a grounded understanding of the inner landscape, enabling me to help people turn towards deeper parts of themselves in a safe yet effective manner.
I have previously lived many lives and shed many skins. Working as an industrial abseiler, construction worker, telecommunications rigger, stage rigger, and working on wind turbines, power stations, gas platforms and iron ore mines. I have spent time building a mud brick house, working as a painter, through to working as a social worker. Through all these experiences I have always been interested in the people I meet and work with.
I now wish to help bear the torch, like others did for me, to help people explore their own inner worlds. I work at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub in Katoomba.