Neurobiology and its Applications to Psychotherapy

Giving people the ability to control their emotional psychophysiology

In this brief video, Alan Watkins outlines the skill of affect regulation via conscious breathing techniques which impact on the feedback loop between breath, heart rate variability and emotional experience. He proposes that it is possible to master one’s emotions in this way, even if one has experienced considerable trauma. Watkins draws on an integrated theory of the mind-body, demonstrating how some simple neurobiological knowledge can be applied to enhance the emotional well-being of our patients/clients and ourselves as therapists.