MY APPROACH
My approach to well-being is intersectional, integrative, and trauma-informed.
Nervous System Care is regulation, restoration, and preventive care; a practice that supports all the somatic methods I offer, including yoga.
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This approach expands into ecologies that recognize our bodies as present, connected, and co-regulating with both the human and more-than-human world.
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It addresses foundational and transpersonal levels of emotions (affects), thoughts (cognition), and the body, combining practices and experiences to be habitually integrated into our daily lives from a salutogenic perspective.
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It acknowledges that while we have multiple relative parts, we also possess a core Self, untouchable by circumstances and full of compassion and innate wisdom.
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Using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model, I structure my work based on a human rights-centered approach.
The ethics of care
must be cultivated, nurtured, shaped.
Care is both value and practice.​
(Virginia Held)
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SOMATIC THERAPY
& SOMATIC COACHING
APPROACHES AND TOOL KIT
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​​From my professional background in occupational therapy, I have had the courage to integrate body-mind practices as adjunctive treatments in psychiatry and community mental health.
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I integrated a trauma-informed care approach to my teachings of yoga and meditations and into my somatic coaching practice from year 2018, deepening my therapeutic and personal work into the fields of somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, and accessibility.
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INTEGRATIVE RESOURCES
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Today, my therapeutic and coaching practice converges the following tool kit:
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- Somatic Parts Work
invites to explore ourselves from a place of curiosity with a structured and non-pathologizing methodology of the mind. A somatic-based application to Parts Work helps in the making of our inner cartography and in the resolution of issues that our parts might have developed due to trauma or attachment wounds.
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- Interpersonal Neurobiology and Neuroscience for Change
covering the several evidence-based models and theories that work at the levels of evolutionary development and functioning of the integrated nervous system: Sensory Integration Theory (sensory processing focused for neurodevelopmental conditions), Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, and Embodied Self-Awareness (ESA) States Model.
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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Is a method from the 3th wave of behavioral therapies supported by a huge amount of evidence. It recognises the person contextually and uses embodied mindfulness and volition work to support developing and strengthening a person's psychological flexibility.
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- Occupational Therapy Model of Neuro-occupation, Intention, Meaning and Perception
https://ottheory.com/index.php/therapy-model/model-neuro-occupation-intention-meaning-and-perception
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Somatic Psychology is my actual field of study, and it provides great tools to expand emotional and affective tolerance. It works as a holistic path to self-knowledge and spiritual integration.
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​​​My vision is based on the acknowledgement of our interconnection and our capacities of regeneration.​ I work from the principles of witnessing, observation, and value of diversities from my own situated perspective.
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I am interested in supporting the access and integration of relational neurosciences with contemplative and somatic practices, and body-work.
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I am open to collaboration: hello@jennifergardenia.com
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