JULIE WATERS Therapy
Therapy according to the Niek Brouw Method
A holistic approach to wellness.
"Open your circle, become free in yourself and the outer world!"
Are you seeking relief from physical pain, from emotional or psychological distress? Are you wishing to deepen your personal relationships or self understanding? Do you seek to cultivate harmony within and with the world around you? Explore my website, send an email, or give a call to learn more about how I can support!
Services available in Oakland, Petaluma, and Online.
About Me
Working in the healing arts since 2001, I have helped clients and students over the years using various methods. From an early start in dance, art, and teaching yoga, to a career in psychotherapy treating clients and training new therapists. I have always valued an integrated approach to health through mind, body, and spirit.Today, using the Psychomotoric therapy method, I work with my patients to help release psychological pain and patterns acquired over the life course. This method helps alleviate physical pain and tension while also addressing emotional imbalances and developmental disturbances.I have studied Psychomotoric therapy since 2001 through workshops by Tim and Jane Heintzelman, who have a practice in San Rafael, CA. I began training and practice as a therapist in 2018, traveling to The Netherlands for founder Niek Brouw, MD's lectures, workshops, as well as collaborations with other psychomotor therapists at the Vitaal clinic.
SERVICES
PSYCHOMOTORIC THERAPY
Each session is a mix of discussion and physical exercises. I provide treatment in the room as well as information and tools that can be applied outside of sessions.
I start with an in-depth assessment of your health and social history as well as a physical diagnosis to observe the mobility of muscles, skeleton and joints.
We discuss where you feel stuck due to conditioning, traumas, injury, illness, and unmet needs.
Using a developmental model, I help you get to the root of habituated responses to create more flexibility and freedom of thought, feeling and action.
Physical exercises are designed to release patterns of overuse or suppression that have caused physical and psychological imbalance.
Practicing the exercises regularly at home on your own is integral to the process and is essential to the alleviation of often long term complaints.
Frequency and duration of treatment is flexible. This method can be applied as as needed for specific ailments and it can be used for the on-going treatment of chronic pain and continued personal development and growth. It is complimentary to many healing modalities including psychotherapy, physical therapy, yoga, spirituality, coaching, and all personal growth support systems.I work with all ages, as well as with couples and families interested in growing together.
*Psychomotoric Therapy is a unique healing modality, and is not psychotherapy.
PSYCHOTHERAPYI am also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and offer talk therapy for individuals and couples through a separate practice.My psychotherapy practice is informed by this model, but does not include a physical assessment or hands on techniques. I utilize some somatic interventions, such as grounding and self-soothing techniques like breath work and guided visualization.If you prefer traditional talk therapy, you can learn more by clicking the button below.
Niek Brouw's Method
Dr. Niek Brouw has been practicing medicine in The Hague, NL for over 50 years. He developed a method that works on the principle that a unique individual needs unique exercises for each unique occasion.Based on years of comparative research, his own powers of observation and the integration of many different views and disciplines, Niek has developed a practical preventive and curative treatment for anyone.Through relatively simple exercises you can quickly find out where you are creating too much or too little tension and where you have skipped important steps in your development.Through this exercise method, we can optimize the posture of the body and give the less developed parts -your potentials- the opportunity to continue to grow naturally.The space you are given when you start to feel your own healthy posture and movement from within, creates the same space (i.e., freedom) in your mental and emotional world.The Niek Brouw Method is based on “living life instead of just surviving it.”The Niek Brouw Method is based on the body, and all the possibilities within it. Through a unique system of physical exercises, you shift the search for possibilities outside yourself to discovering the possibilities within yourself, or for some vice versa.Dr. Brouw has created hundreds of exercises based on the ‘GDS muscle chains’ and dimensions of the body. These exercises deal with acute injuries and pain and also address the underlying causes of muscle and joint pain and physical as well as mental restrictions.He has given workshops around the world to doctors, physical therapists, psychotherapists, dentists, audiologists, and veterinarians. He has written three books on his model and findings, and continues to develop his methods and coach psychomotoric therapist today.
Contact
510-560-3864
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Call or email to request a free 20 minute consultation where I can answer questions and see if this technique is right for you.Appointments available Monday-Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm
Oakland, Petaluma, and Virtually.
