Finding Clarity From Within
A gentle, body-aware approach to help you understand emotions and move toward inner ease.

Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT)

Focusing Oriented Therapy or FOT is an approach to that allows the client to gain awareness into their bodily felt sense. It helps to direct attention toward things that are experienced that are difficult to describe in a concrete way. It is a way of listening to your life and body so that you may carry forward into deeper authenticity. It helps you to listen to the inner wisdom of your whole-body: your heart, soul, mind, body and its deep inner knowing. 

Felt sense is the sensations in a person's body that provide information about situations, thoughts, and feelings. It is important learn to "stay" with this felt sense and listen to its messages. It allows us a loving way to welcome all the parts of us and to more deeply listen to the parts of us we have tried to deny, overcome, chastise or set aside.

Grounded in the person-centered approach to treatment, focusing therapy holds that individuals possess within themselves the answers they are seeking and is founded on the concept that individuals know themselves better than a therapist could ever hope to. This "knowing" refers to the knowledge of the body (the body's awareness), however, not the knowledge of the thinking brain. In focusing therapy, therapist and person in treatment work to reaffirm the bodily knowledge a person has and allow the body to steer a person within future situations.

Also influencing the approach is the concept that change is more than a verbal process. Often, the concepts and ideas addressed in therapy are emotions that are difficult to put into words. Focusing allows for a broader experience and expression of these emotions through the meditative process of focusing.

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