Alumnus Neal Brodsky LMFT, ACCEP In March 2016, Neal was interviewed by fellow alumnus Serge Prengle LMHC about working with children in a somatic capacity. We are sharing it with our community in the hope that it helps us understand the importance of embodied work and the far reach it potentially has for the world. […]
Understanding How to Move and Manipulate Energy
Alumnus Aimee Falchuk, MPH, M.Ed., ACCEP Aimee was featured in Goop online magazine in the Spring of 2016. In this article Understanding How to Move and Manipulate Energy, Aimee provides perspectives of energy and consciousness and the many ways we can understand this experience in our body, mind and spirit. Here is an excerpt and […]
Every Body Needs Some Body
Reprint from- New Therapist, September/October Edition 2012 An Interview with Lisa Loustaunau, Frederick Lowen and Jack Lee Rosenberg Let’s face it: Our most archetypal attachment scripts are predicated upon a fundamental urge to fulfill the longing of every body for some body to love. Our bodies are, whether we like it or not, the vehicle […]
Catharsis vs. Discharge and Release
The following is an excerpt from Out of the Comfort Zone: Overcoming the Blocks to Living and Loving, a book in progress by Lisa Loustaunau. The word release as it is used in Core Energetics, is not the same as acting out. When we act out an emotion, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it implies the expression of an […]
The Four Phases of the Core Energetics Approach
by Lisa Loustaunau MFA, ACCEP Originally published in the USABP (United States Association of Body Psychotherapy) Newsletter May 2014, revised in 2019 The sacred wound is the wound, the healing of which, allows us to become the hero of our own life. – Jean Houston Core Energetics, which was developed by the late Dr. John […]