JULIE WATERS
Psychomotor Therapy
Dr. Niek Brouw's Approach to Healing the Unique Individual.
"Open your circle to become free in yourself and the outer world!"
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO WELLNESSPsychomotor Therapy offers relief from physical, emotional and psychological distress acquired throughout life, using developmental exercises and hands-on techniques.
Services available in Oakland, Petaluma, and Online.
About Me
Immersed in dance and the arts throughout my youth, I was drawn to study the yoga tradition shortly after high school. Finding a philosophy and practice that connected mind and body to heal and grow, was a click-moment for me. I felt I had found my calling and began my own journey of healing and learning!
Becoming a registered yoga teacher in 2001 led me to explore other healing modalities including becoming a patient of Psychomotor Therapy and beginning my study of it shortly after. I created my own major at UC Berkeley called Integrative Psychology, which led to a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Sonoma State and a career in psychotherapy. I have been treating clients and training new therapists since 2012.My studies in Psychomotor Therapy began in 2001 through regular workshops given by Tim and Jane Heintzelman, in San Rafael, CA, as well as annual weekend long workshops with the creator of Psychomotor Therapy, Dr. Niek Brouw of The Netherlands.In 2018 I began practicing as a psychomotor therapist and traveling to The Netherlands regularly to work directly with Dr. Brouw, and other psychomotor therapists at the Vitaal clinic. I continue to collaborate with the therapists of Niek's work, and am helping the foundation to preserve Niek's heritage.Here in the Bay Area I also support workshops given by Veterinarian Rob Erteman, who teaches the techniques to pet owners to use on their pets. I demonstrate the exercises on the humans while he works on the animals.I plan to offer my own workshops in the future to teach aspects of the model, and provide opportunities to experience the exercises!
SERVICES
PSYCHOMOTORIC THERAPY
In each session I use hands-on touches and exercises as well as discussing and sharing information and tools that can be applied outside of sessions for your personal development and healing.
I start by gathering your health and relational history.
I also do a physical diagnosis to observe the mobility of your muscles, skeleton and joints.
We discuss where you feel stuck due to conditioning, traumas, injury, illness, unmet needs or unrealized potentials.
Using a developmental model, we shift your automatic reactions to allow more freedom in thought, feeling and action.
Physical techniques are designed to release patterns of overuse or suppression that cause physical and psychological imbalance.
Practicing the exercises regularly at home on your own will integrate the experiences in the treatment room and aide in your progress.
DETAILS
Psychomotor Therapy is great for anyone seeking to expand their self-understanding, further their personal growth and find greater physical and psychological freedom!
I work with all ages, as well as with couples and families interested in growing together.
Frequency and duration varies based on your goals, resources, and diagnoses.
*Psychomotoric Therapy is a unique healing modality, and is not psychotherapy.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
I am 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.To learn more, click 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
[email protected]
Call or email to set up a free 20 minute consultation.Appointments available Monday-Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm
Fridays 9:00am-3:00pm.Oakland, Petaluma, and Virtually.
