About Conscious Touch Focusing

Conscious Touch Focusing facilitates personal growth and healing on all levels — body, mind, heart, and spirit. The process is deeply spiritual while also firmly grounded in the latest neuropsychological research findings. While I draw from a variety of holistic healing modalities, Focusing is the core of my work.

We all have different degrees of understanding and meaning available to us. Most of us are aware of only the more surface levels, usually those that are strongest or loudest either physically or emotionally. With Focusing, you gain access to a subtle, powerful awareness and inner wisdom that is not generally accessible to the conscious mind. You learn to listen – to yourself and to others – in a way that is both safe and respectful.

Life’s challenges offer us the potential to develop our wisdom, our vitality, and our connection with ourselves and others. When you tap into and learn from inner knowing, you can actually benefit from these challenges. Conscious Touch Focusing facilitates access to this often profound wisdom.

Benefits of Focusing

With Focusing, you gain clarity about inner wants and needs and about your very essence. Simply allowing these to come to light can be quite profound.

Focusing may be used to work on life-long goals, or on more day-to-day issues. Clients have used one-to-one sessions to address issues of blocked creativity, unfulfilled potential, goals they’ve been unable to achieve, and even a lack of clarity about the goals themselves.

When you Focus, relationships of all types become more satisfying. Thanks to enhanced skills in listening and communication, you will experience a greater sense of connection with yourself and feel more at ease in relating to others.

Focusing, Therapy, or Coaching?

The primary distinction between Focusing and psychotherapy is the nature of the relationship between the facilitator/therapist and the client. In Focusing, the primary relationship is between you and your inner self, whereas in therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is often central. That said, Focusing alone is therapeutic and Focusing in conjunction with therapy can be particularly powerful.

People often ask if Focusing is like Coaching. Focusing is a path to awareness and helps you be present in a gentle, respectful way with your inner reality. Coaching (also known as life coaching) is typically more directive and action based, geared toward helping you to reach specific goals.

Many Coaches find that Focusing significantly enhances their work with clients. Coaches use Focusing to help clients move forward in their lives by identifying priorities, framing goals and creating action plans that are aligned with core values, and discovering attitudes and behaviors that might be in the way of achieving important goals.

For more information about Focusing, additional resources are listed here.

Now that you understand how Conscious Touch Focusing can enhance your life and the lives of your clients, you may wish to find out more about my approach.