At Kundalini House in North Fitzroy, Body Centred Therapy and EFT offer gentle, trauma-informed ways to listen to the body, the nervous system, and the deeper stories held within.

Every difficulty lives in both the body and the mind. Anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, or old relational patterns may show up not only as thoughts and emotions, but also as sensations — tightness in the chest, holding in the throat, heaviness, tension, or pain.

Body Centred Therapy supports you to gently turn toward these sensations with loving, non-judgemental presence. With the support of a skilled therapist, you can begin to listen to the body’s messages, meet what has been held, and allow old experiences to integrate in a more compassionate way.

EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, may also be used to support this process. Through gentle tapping on specific points of the body while bringing awareness to thoughts, emotions, or memories, EFT can help reduce emotional intensity and support nervous system regulation.

Together, Body Centred Therapy and EFT create a safe, compassionate space to reconnect with yourself, soften protective patterns, and support deeper healing.

Body Centred Therapy is based on the understanding that the body carries wisdom, memory, and an instinctive movement toward healing.

The foundations of this work include:

• There is nothing wrong with you
• It is not possible to have a wrong sensation in the body
• Physical sensations are the language of the body and subconscious
• The body holds wisdom, clarity, and insight
• Healing begins through loving, non-judgemental presence
• Deep connection with ourselves supports connection with others, nature, and the world

This work is slow, spacious, and deeply respectful of your pace.

Body Centred Therapy and EFT can support emotional, physical, and nervous system concerns.

At our North Fitzroy clinic, they may help with:

• Anxiety and stress
• Depression and low mood
• Trauma and post-traumatic stress
• Grief, anger, guilt, or shame
• Relationship difficulties
• Compulsive behaviours and habits
• Fears and phobias
• Feeling frozen, overwhelmed, or disconnected from the body
• Physical or chronic pain
• Repetitive negative thoughts or memories

This work supports both immediate regulation and deeper transformation.

Body Centred Therapy sessions begin by talking through your current situation and what you would like support with.

The hands-on part of the treatment is conducted on a massage table. Slow, listening touch is used to open the body’s communication channels and notice where the body feels open, where it may be holding, and where there may be information to explore, release, or reveal.

Your therapist listens through their hands and body with an attitude of complete acceptance. The work can be very still and slow.

You are invited to listen inwardly at the same time, noticing sensations, emotions, images, memories, or insights that arise. There may be silence, or gentle conversation about what you are experiencing. When stored material is ready to heal, it may reveal itself through sensation, emotion, vision, or understanding.

EFT may also be incorporated into the session. This involves gentle tapping on specific points while bringing awareness to a feeling, memory, belief, or pattern. EFT can be especially helpful when something feels overwhelming, difficult to talk about, or hard to shift through words alone.

Each session is unique, and may leave you feeling deeply connected with yourself, relaxed, and with greater understanding, self-acceptance, and compassion.

Body Centred Therapy and EFT can be used separately or together, depending on what feels most supportive.

Body Centred Therapy offers a slow, embodied way to listen to the deeper intelligence of the body. EFT offers a practical, accessible tool for working with emotional charge, limiting beliefs, fears, habits, and traumatic memories.

Both approaches are gentle, body-based, and supportive of nervous system regulation.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an emotional healing technique, which is based on a revolutionary discovery that goes against most of the beliefs of conventional psychology. It contends that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.

Essentially, EFT is a form of “psychological acupressure” – except that we don’t use needles. The approach relieves symptoms by tapping on various body locations connected to the energy meridians described in acupuncture. This tapping balances the physiological systems that become disrupted when we think about or experience an emotionally disturbing circumstance. Once balanced, the upset is usually resolved – the memory stays but the emotional charge is gone. Typically the result is lasting and is also accompanied by positive changes in thinking. The technique is easy to learn and ideal for self-help.

EFT has been successfully applied to treat a wide range of emotional problems and issues, including:

• Anxiety, fears and phobias
• Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Grief / anger / guilt
• Limiting beliefs
• Repetitive negative thoughts / reoccurring memories / obsessive thinking
• Limiting behaviours such as overeating, smoking, addictions
• Physical symptoms/pain and ailments

Benefits of EFT

• Directly target specific issues and impediments to goals
• Fast uncovering of the source of your issues, accessing answers to long-held questions like; “why do I feel this way when it doesn’t’ make sense?” or “why can’t I change?”, or “why do I keep smoking when I know it’s no good for me?” etc.
• Accessible to anyone including people who are:
  • Overwhelmed
  • Have difficulty discussing their issues
  • Sceptical of therapy
  • Feel frozen/Disconnected from their feelings/body
• The process itself makes you feel safe while working with deep issues/non-confronting

Research

Some excellent results are being reported in research studies being conducted worldwide on EFT.  A study at Curtin University in Western Australia by psychologists Steve Wells, Kathy Polglase, Henry Andrews, Patricia Carrington, and Harvey Baker found EFT to be successful in treating specific phobias and the results were superior to a more traditional treatment. Behavioural shifts achieved in the 30-minute treatment sessions were maintained at follow-up 6-9 months later. This study was published in the prestigious peer review journal Journal of Clinical Psychology, September 2003 edition. If you want to read more about this research click here.

​Researchers in the USA are mapping the physiological effects of the approach and finding that major changes in functioning can occur when people tap on the meridian points. Most people start to relax almost immediately, and report that their traumatic experiences are less bothersome after EFT treatment.

Integrative care

Body Centred Therapy and EFT may be complemented by Psychotherapy & Counselling, Massage, or movement practices such as Yoga and Meditation at our North Fitzroy clinic and studio.