feeling-seen - by Michael Bachg

feeling-seen

A body-oriented and neurobiologically well-founded psycho- therapy and educational theory for children, adolescents and parents based on Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP)

The term "feeling-seen" aptly describes the central idea of this approach for solving the problems of children, adolescents and their parents.

"feeling-seen" is about allowing the child or adolescent to actually feel seen within the therapeutic process.

This will be accomplished primarily through the therapist's open and accepting attitude, his specifically trained skills in recognizing emo- tions and affective sensations flitting across the child's face within split seconds, as well as the therapist's ability to label the feelings experienced by the child or adolescent in a pertinent way.

If this succeeds, the child or adolescent will feel understood in the emotions he experiences and will feel truly seen by the therapist.

Consequently, this growing trustful atmosphere and an orientation to- wards their own feelings enable the children or adolescents to suc- ceed in breaking through to their fundamental difficulties and hard- ships with the help of the therapist.

It's not unusual that the problems of the children turn out to be rather different from what their parents or other persons involved may have assumed.

With this brochure we would like to invite you to come along on an exciting journey, frequently leading into unknown areas and often- times including unexpected turns, thereby striving to encourage the process of working through and finally solving the problems of children and adolescents.