Carolyn Kutsko, PhD(c)
Somatic Counselor and Wellness Coach
Carolyn is a Doctoral Candidate in Somatic Psychology and certified PEER practitioner. Her work has focused in addiction and trauma counseling, with certification as a BodyWay Life Coach (A somatic based program focusing on overcoming emotional eating). Her doctoral studies have included experiential work in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, Hakomi, AEDP, and Integrated Body Psychotherapy.
In Carolyn’s therapeutic coaching sessions you will experience a unique mixture of gentle guidance and accountability in helping you reach your physical and personal goals combined with support in working through emotional issues that may be holding you back. She will help you reconnect with your sensational body and non-compulsive self through body-centered focusing, releasing, and relaxing.
Carolyn offers a non-judgmental, therapeutic relationship walking gently with you through your uniquely personal stages of renewal and healing. She invites you to:
· Through mindfulness, move from out-of-control experiences into well-being
· Transform the underlying beliefs and patterns that drive addiction and suffering
· Live in alignment with the heart
· Enhance connection with body and self through breath, setting boundaries, and self-nurture
· Experience greater well-being by tuning into and expressing emotional tension
· Experience the reality that your essential self is non-compulsive
· Infuse life with vitality and creativity
Call for a free introductory consultation. 917-991-0776
What is Somatic Psychology?
Somatic Psychology (body mind psychotherapy, body-oriented psychotherapy, etc.) is a holistic form of therapy that respects and utilizes the powerful connection between body, mind and spirit. How we are in this world, how we relate to ourselves and others, is not just purely about the mind or our thoughts, but is also deeply rooted in our bodies and our spirits.
Somatic Psychology has a long and rich history and is primarily derived from the theories and practices of Wilhelm Reich, a psychoanalyst and student of Sigmund Freud. Since that time, it has been influenced by existential, humanistic and gestalt psychology, dance, movement and art therapy, neuroscience and attachment theory, family and systems theory, and Far Eastern philosophy and spirituality.
Individuals seek this form of treatment for similar reasons they might look to more traditional talk therapy, to address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and sexuality issues, grief and loss, addictions, trauma including abuse recovery, as well as more purely medical reasons including pain, headaches, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Somatic Psychotherapy includes many different techniques that can be utilized depending on the specific needs of each client. An attuned client-therapist relationship is the foundation of all interventions including: developing mindfulness and awareness of one's physical presence using relaxation and meditative techniques; movement in order to promote a deeper physical awareness and to expand one's capacity to feel and express emotions; breathing techniques to improve functioning of the breath and increase capacity for emotion; and the release of emotional tension stored in the body through storming, crying, shaking, laughing, yawning, and expressive talking.
Carolyn@NashvilleIntegratedMedicine.com
917-991-0776