A somatic approach to couples work
January 30, 2010
Presenter: Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT
The sullen husband sinking into his chair as his wife articulates the problems in a heightened state of alert, the belligerent husband informing you (and his wife) of her ineptitude while she sits motionless with glazed eyes. The young couple that inflames like an open wound, a partner clinging to the other for dear life, hungering for assurances, or spouses frozen by an affair that happened twenty years ago…
These are physical events and conditions that are efficiently and depthfully addressed through somatic awareness and intervention. In this presentation, I will assist participants to recognize common patterns and offer a concrete methodology with which to address them. Of equal significance is our own physiological response to clinical situations. I will be addressing this as well.
Participants are encouraged to bring with them actual cases with which they might like a somatic perspective.
Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT has a private practice in Walnut Creek & Pinole and is the clinical director of the Center for Personal & Relational Development. He specializes in working with adults and couples and has found that working somatically offers a particularly efficient and meaningful way of graduating ideas and concepts into new behaviors and realities. Mr. Feldman has presented on somatic psychotherapy at institutions and agencies throughout the Bay Area and in San Diego.
For more information about Mr. Feldman, visit www.formingrelationships.com.