Embodied Approaches to Psychotherapy

Jon Sletvold supervises Julianne Appel-Opper

In this brief supervision session, Jon helps Julianne to reach some new insights about a client who had experienced early neglect and trauma. This approach demonstrates the theory that, by supporting the therapist in imagining the client’s bodily experience, and by focusing closely on her bodily countertransference she will come closer to a third position of being able to overview the core themes of the therapy work that is needed. Jon’s approach combines Reichian psychoanalyzis with contemporary relational body psychotherapy. Micro-observation of affect is at the core of their discussion.