Chuey Loh has worked for several years as a counsellor and psychotherapist in London. She practises from Stoke Newington and Golders Green in North London. She trained with The Karuna Institute in Devon. For more information the Karuna Institute, please go to www.karuna-institute.co.ukCore Process PsychotherapyThe Contemporary ApproachCore Process Psychotherapy is based on an in-depth understanding of human personality processes and of human potential. The ‘Core’ is that unconditional state inherent in all of us, a state that is potentially present in every moment. Core Process is the movement from this inherent awareness or unconditional state to the way we develop our personality and the shape of who we are.
The therapeutic process involves looking at the individual’s developmental history, the potential of existential awakening and the realisation of the essential integrity of our Core. This process of psychological reflection is held within contemplative awareness of the wider nature of the true essence of our being.
Reality is not so much about a series of events that happen to us but more about our experiencing and living of these events. Often we cannot change events especially when they are in the past, but we can change our experiencing of them.
The use of Focussing, a technique developed by Eugene Gendlin, through our ‘felt experiencing’ or ‘felt sense’ is one way that we can begin to look at our experiences. It is through this ‘felt sense’ that can enable the therapist and client to tap into the territory of what is unknown and unfamiliar in the therapeutic process. This ‘felt sense’ is the inward bodily response to a direct experience of a present moment. The therapeutic work begins with looking at arising experiences through sensations, energies, feelings, thought processes and bodily expressions, the ‘felt meaning’.
In following our felt sense, we can begin to experience the process of becoming truly alive to our human condition.
Core Process Psychotherapy is humanistic, integrative, transpersonal and psychospiritual in its approach with influences from reflections of the existential and phenomenological aspects.
Core Process Psychotherapy is also rooted in Buddhism, Buddhist psychology and awareness practices.
This combination of the Buddhist views and Western psychotherapeutic concepts, brings together a focus of a body-mind awareness, which helps to centre on our present experiences with openness, spaciousness, compassion and clarity within a non-judgemental environment of exploration.
People choose to come for psychotherapy for different reasons. They could be going through any of the following:
- Depression
- Fears and Anxieties
- A personal or existential crisis
- A major life-change
- Relationship problems
- Bereavement
Or more subtle issues such as:
Feelings of being blocked or stuckFeelings of emptiness and wishing to enquire more deeply into lifeFeelings of being cut-off, isolated or alienated and wish to engage in a therapeutic alliance to explore the difficultiesIf one or more of these concern you please don't hesitate to get in touch by calling me on 07951 036381 or email cyloh@btinternet.com
Experiential GroupworkExperiential groupwork is offered to those who would prefer to develop their awareness around personal and interpersonal processes in a group. Groupwork is potentially very powerful and effective in developing awareness in how we experience the world.
These Experiential Groups are offered in a series of 10 weekly sessions and commitment to the full ten sessions is essential.
The next series of sessions is due to begin in April/May 2008 at the North London Buddhist Centre in Holloway Road, London.
If you are interested in groupwork please call me on 07951 036381 or email cyloh@btinternet.com |
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