Leisa Parker
Somatic Therapy in Townsville
A relational approach to therapy that brings curiosity to the ongoing relationship between body, mind and experience.
Meet Leisa
Welcome, I’m Leisa.
My work is grounded in a longstanding interest in the relationship between body and mind, and in how our experiences — particularly our early relationships — shape the ways we come to know ourselves, relate to others and move through the world.
I work relationally and collaboratively, bringing attention not only to what is spoken, but also to what may be happening in the body in the present moment. Rather than seeing patterns of tension, protection or disconnection as something simply to be fixed, I’m interested in understanding how they developed, what they may have supported, and what becomes possible through greater awareness, choice and connection.
More than any particular technique, I value the relationship we create together — one that makes room for curiosity, honesty and the complexity of your experience.
A Somatic Approach
Somatic therapy brings the body into the therapeutic conversation.
Alongside what we think, feel and understand about our experiences, we can become curious about what is happening in the body — sensations, impulses, movement, tension, breath, patterns of protection, and the ways we respond in relationship.
My work draws from Somatic Experiencing™, NeuroAffective Touch®, Somatic Practice, movement, and developmental and relational approaches. These are not used as a set formula, but provide different ways of listening to and working with each person’s experience.
Somatic Experiencing™ brings particular attention to the nervous system and to how the body responds to stress, overwhelm and trauma. NeuroAffective Touch® offers another way of working with early developmental and relational experiences through body awareness and, where appropriate, therapeutic touch.
Sometimes our work may be primarily conversational. At other times we may notice sensation, movement, emotion or what is happening between us in the present moment. Touch may also be included when it is clinically appropriate and mutually agreed upon.
Underlying all of these approaches is a curiosity about the relationship between body and mind, and about how our experiences become woven into both.
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Understanding ourselves asks us to listen to more than words.