Healing from trauma is a natural process that is possible to access through an internal awareness of the body. (Peter Levine)
Psychotherapy is a therapeutic process that uses psychological techniques to help us solve our problems and difficulties in personal or professional life, promoting self-observation and increasing our understanding of our thoughts, emotions, and feelings.
All the events we experience throughout our lives are the ones that build our personality, give us the strategies we use to cope with each situation, and form the beliefs we have about ourselves and our environment, and therefore how we interpret life.
When these experiences are painful and difficult, they can affect the way we behave and relate to others in the present; what was necessary and adaptive in the past can, in the present, lead to dysfunctional behaviors and/or emotions.
The psychotherapeutic relationship provides a safe and confidential place to detect our psychological problems or difficulties and understand their roots, their causes, and thus become aware of how we handle them, reconstructing what is maladaptive/dysfunctional in order to adapt to our present experience, increase our overall well-being, and empower us with greater ability to cope with difficulties.