| Bioenergetics
is a relational psychotherapy using the body and its energy
that serves to inform the clinician on the relational patterns
of the client. Marriage, Family Therapists are relationally
oriented and yet we remain under-trained about the context
or vehicle that brings the client to our office, that the
clients live in and through which the client relates to his
or her world---the body.
Using
this theoretical orientation, a Bioenergetically
trained therapist is able to expand their understanding of
how the client’s defenses translate into bodily presentations.
These somatic awareness tools add to a therapist’s
understanding of the client’s reality.
Thus, the nonverbal language presented in session is
given translation.
With this expanded awareness,
the Bioenergetic therapist is better able to offer the client
psycho-education, insight, and alternatives to these characteristic
dysfunctional patterns of being and relating in the world.
Furthermore, the body’s energy patterns are directly
related to an individual’s experiences in life.
Just as the psyche has had to organize defenses in
relationship to environmental responses, the person’s body
has also been present and experiencing the gamut of emotions
and feelings---all physical felt-senses. The Bioenergetic therapist is able to utilize
this added information to facilitate the client in releasing
past experiences and integrating her awareness of self into
the present moment.
Tarra
Stariell is a fully trained Bioenergetic psychotherapist who
has been in private practice for over four years. She has two offices, in Solana Beach and Escondido.
She has extensive experience working with children
and adolescents, Vietnam Veterans, pregnant and parenting
teens with substance abuse problems; adolescents in the juvenile
justice system; substance abusing women and the homeless.
Tarra
has also worked as the family therapist for a local agency
that was the recipient of a research project on addictions,
sponsored by Columbia
University and
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In addition, she has participated in a research study
on Attachment Theory with a local noted specialist in that
area, Vincentia Schroeter, Ph.D.
Tarra’s
specialties include addictions, dissociative
disorders, bereavement, trauma, cult recovery and adolescents.
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@Copyright
2001,2003 by Tarra Judson Stariell,
MFT, CBT
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