Experience the Power of Breathwork in Therapy

Breathwork can be a useful complement to counselling when you want to explore not only what you are thinking and feeling, but also what is happening in your body.

In my work, breathwork is not a requirement and it is not used according to a fixed formula. Where appropriate, simple breathing practices may be incorporated into counselling to support awareness, presence and emotional regulation.

This can be particularly useful when you notice that you understand something intellectually but your body continues to respond differently.

Using the breath as one way of paying closer attention

Counselling begins with conversation.

Sometimes conversation is enough.

At other times, it can be useful to move out of explanation and pay closer attention to what is happening in the moment.

This is where breathwork may have a place.

Breathwork is a tool within the counselling process

I don't see breathwork as a separate treatment that needs to be added to counselling.

It is one of the tools I may use when it seems appropriate.

Bringing attention to the breath can sometimes make an experience more immediate. Rather than only talking about what you feel, you may begin to notice how the experience is actually happening.

We might notice your breathing.

We might slow things down.

We might notice a sensation, feeling or reaction as it arises.

There is no requirement to do breathwork.

Why work with the breath?

Breathing is something we are doing all the time, often without noticing it.

When we deliberately bring attention to the breath, it gives us another way of paying attention to our present experience.

The purpose is not to force a particular response or create a dramatic experience.

It is to notice what is already happening.

Breathwork and InnerWork

I use the term InnerWork to describe the deeper exploration that can happen within counselling.

Breathwork can sometimes support that exploration by bringing attention away from explanation and towards direct experience.

But the counselling remains the work.

Breathwork is simply one possible way into it.

My experience with breathwork

I have more than 14 years of experience practising and facilitating breathwork and have facilitated more than 3,000+ sessions.

My work with breathwork has developed alongside many years of counselling, meditation, yoga and pranayama practice.

I also distinguish contemporary breathwork practices from traditional yogic pranayama. They are related, but they are not the same practice.

Is breathwork right for you?

Not necessarily.

Some people are interested in breathwork specifically. Others come for counselling and encounter it only if it seems useful.

We can discuss what you are looking for in a free 10-minute consultation.