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Becoming Balanced and Whole Again

April 23, 2014 by mariedavis

b-m-s circlesRead this amazing personal story of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker becoming balanced and whole again through Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

As a licensed marriage and family therapist working for many years with traumatized clients, I feel that I know the vast benefits of therapy.  Working with Marie Davis in my own therapy, however, has been and continues to be a life changing process more than I could have ever imagined. Marie utilizes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a therapeutic model to really dig deep and address both attachment issues, or issues from our childhood, as well as trauma we have experienced such as an abusive relationship, difficult marriage, accident or even something as horrific as rape. She has helped me to peel back the layers so to speak of my own trauma to address my struggles on a cognitive, emotional and sensory level so I can once again become balanced and whole. Therapy with Marie has brought “new meaning” to “old hurts” so I can move past irritability, depression, anger and even physical pain in my body towards a once again happy and healthy Kelly. If you yearn for things to be different in your life, relationships to be whole again, thoughts to be clear with intention and to move past a history of trauma, Marie Davis can help you reach that place.

-Kelly R., Licensed Clinical Social Worker

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Discovering the Body as a Resource Class

April 22, 2014 by mariedavis

Discovering the Body as a Resource Class is a 6 week series designed to help you manage stress and give you tools to feel confident and comfortable in your body.

Marie O. Davis, MA, LPC and Stacey Stone

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Grounding Practice Video

April 22, 2014 by mariedavis

Marie O. Davis, MA, LPC instructs us how to do this simple and very effective grounding practice to bring more peace and stability to your body, soul, and spirit.  Watch the grounding practice video now.

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What are the symptoms of trauma?

April 8, 2014 by mariedavis

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Are You or Someone You Know Suffering From Trauma?

Are you or your someone you know struggling with stress, relationship difficulties, painful emotions or  patterns that repeat over and over? Do you feel anxious, depressed, or avoid people and situations that feel overwhelming and too much to handle?

You may be suffering from the lingering effects of trauma.  People mistakenly think that to be traumatized we need to have suffered a significant event.  While this will likely create a traumatic imprint, there are other more subtle and pervasive forms of trauma that many of us have experienced.  If we grew up in a family where there was substance abuse, mental illness, neglect, emotional abuse, a lack of support or underwent medical procedures, we can suffer from the effects of trauma. Chronic stress over a long period of time can have the same effects of one single traumatic event.  Especially if these experiences happened in childhood when our nervous systems were vulnerable and forming, can a lasting feeling of trouble stay with us through our life even when there is nothing currently troubling us.

If we are going to heal from trauma, it’s not enough to just talk about it, research is showing that we need to experience feeling and doing something empowering and resolve any maladapative thoughts connected with the past. Experiential therapies, like Sensorimotor psychotherapy or expressive arts therapy, allow you to do just that: have a new experience that can change the way you feel about life, yourself, and your circumstances.  Experiential therapies create transformation and new awareness’s that reveal our own inner wisdom and potential.  We feel confident, empowered and are more able to make healthy choices in our lives.

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Do you or your someone you know experience?

Emotional symptoms:

  • Becoming easily agitated, frustrated, and moody
  • Feeling overwhelmed, like you are losing control or need to take control
  • Having difficulty relaxing and quieting your mind
  • Feeling bad about yourself (low self-esteem), lonely, worthless, and depressed
  • Avoiding others
  • Depression or Anxiety

Physical symptoms:

  • Low energy
  • Headaches, Upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, and nausea
  • Aches, pains, and tense muscles
  • Chest pain and rapid heartbeat
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent colds and infections
  • Clenched jaw and grinding teeth
Cognitive symptoms:

  • Constant worrying
  • Racing thoughts
  • Forgetfulness and disorganization
  • Inability to focus
  • Poor judgment
  • Being pessimistic or seeing only the negative side

Behavioral symptoms:

  • Changes in appetite — either not eating or eating too much
  • Procrastinating and avoiding responsibilities
  • Exhibiting more nervous behaviors, such as nail biting, fidgeting, and pacing
  • Manipulation
  • Difficulty with relationship

While trauma work can be slow and scary at times, the end result is a greater sense of freedom, hope, and personal power.  If you or someone you know suffers from traumatic symptoms, don’t delay in getting help.  Resolving traumatic memory and the symptoms that go with it.

Marie O. Davis, MA, LPC is in private practice at Body, Soul, Spirit is an Asheville psychotherapy practice dedicated to helping adolescents and adults experience their innate ability to grow, heal, and feel safe connecting with others.  By engaging all three dimensions of our being, lasting change becomes possible.  For more information visit: www.bodysoulspiritasheville.com

 

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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Asheville

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

“All of life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

sensorimotor psychotherapy ashevilleOur bodies are continually communicating information. Research has shown that at least 80% of communication is non-verbal. Sensorimotor psychotherapy is a form of body based psychotherapy that can help to unlock old thought, feeling, and behavioral patterns that get stored in the body. From a young age, many of us developed beliefs, relational styles, and feelings that are now hidden inside of our ‘personality’ and held in our body. In order to get access to these old unconscious belief systems, we work to access them through the body, so that we can get to the ‘root’ of the problem.

 

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Sensorimotor sessions usually involve dialogue, client- therapist collaboration, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and sometimes movement to augment the experience of old feelings, beliefs, or patterns of behavior that got ‘stuck’ and are blocking your growth. Through exploring why you do what you do, you can make new choices and explore new actions and capabilities. By studying the body with mindfulness, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy’s aim is to awaken and integrate innate capacities within you.  Discovering and experiencing the intrinsic power within you can transform the way you approach and live your life.  Once old beliefs are uncovered and new capacities are discovered and fully integrated, how you experience yourself and your life can change subtly or dramatically.

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Are you someone who is conscientious, actively engaged in life and are ready to have more vitality, more happiness and a greater sense of freedom?  Are you ready to engage in change, so that life become more joyful instead of a burden?

Engaging in therapy can put us on a path of empowerment and improve our sense of well being.  Whether your looking for some extra support with a challenging life situation or ready to gain new awareness and experience more of your potential, wholistic counseling can provide tools that will help you to achieve your goals.

Over time, each Sensorimotor Psychotherapy session slowly unravels the deeply ingrained, unconscious patterns that keep us from experiencing our innate peace and joy. Body centered therapy helps clients to better understand themselves and discover ‘missing experiences’ of their wholeness so that they can live more fully and experience more mastery in their lives.

Marie Davis provides the safe and supportive environment where the restoring of wholeness and healing occurs.  Change can feel daunting and working to unravel the knots that we have woven around ourselves takes willingness, patience, and honesty .  Marie uses a wholisitic, eclectic approach, specializing in body-centered methods and includes cognitive-behavioral therapy and expressive arts therapy, to unearth long standing emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns.

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Marie Davis helps young adults and adults who have:

  • anxiety/depression
  • self-esteem/identity issues
  • going through life transitions
  • difficulties in intimate relationships
  • conflict in family situations/relationships
  • instability or lack of support in childhood
  • a history of substance abuse (already in recovery and want more than just staying clean)

Read more about the services that Marie offers or contact her to schedule a free consultation…..

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