Biodynamic Psychotherapy
I’m Steffany, a registered UKCP trainee psychotherapist specializing in Biodynamic Psychotherapy—a versatile and integrative method that combines talking therapy, body-centred psychotherapy, and Biodynamic Massage, a form of attuned touch. These approaches aim to support your emotional, psychological, and physical well-being.
How I work
I come from a place of compassion and curiosity, believing that even in your most challenging moments, there is deep wisdom arising from within. Our work together is collaborative, finding the pace and place you feel supported and safe enough to explore creating pathways to healing.
Why Biodynamic Psychotherapy?
Biodynamic Psychotherapy is a flexible, responsive approach tailored to your unique needs, helping release blocks and restore your natural resilience and vitality.
Life’s challenges can disrupt our natural ability for balance. When these disruptions occur too often or intensely, they can create blocks, or “armoring.” These blocks manifest as mental, emotional, or physical struggles, leaving us feeling disconnected and unbalanced.
The methods I use actively address these disruptions, helping you reconnect with a sense of flow, well-being, and aliveness.
Who Is This Work For?
This work is for anyone seeking a deeper connection with themselves. Whether you’re recovering from trauma—early childhood experiences or recent events—or managing anxiety, depression, or stress. Or have chronic physical symptoms like poor sleep, digestive issues, or other physical symptoms that might have emotional roots, Biodynamic Psychotherapy can help.
I have experience with LGBTQ experiences as well as various secular, religious, or spiritual backgrounds.
If you find yourself burdened by self-critical thoughts shaped by family or societal expectations, navigating life changes, challenges, relationships, or loss, this approach offers a compassionate and embodied way forward.
What a Session Is Like
Each session begins with a conversation to explore what brings you here and what you need. From there, we may continue with talking therapy or choose to move to the massage table for biodynamic massage, or alternatively to body-centred vegetative therapy.
Biodynamic massage addresses both physical and emotional imbalances. During the massage I use a stethoscope on your belly, tuning into your body’s parasympathetic response—special sounds of “rest and digest” signal the clearing of stress residual hormones left from the sympathetic nervous system’s response.
In vegetative therapy I will invite you to turn your focus inward. As unconscious energy comes into awareness through sensations, it may release through spontaneous movements, accompanied by emotional release, memories, images, or insights.
Together, these methods help to complete interrupted emotional cycles as you’ll experience “dynamic relaxation” at the heart of our work together, allowing emotions to rise and release from deep within the body in a bio-dynamic way (“bio” meaning life and “dynamic” referring to movement from within) leading to real change.
About Me
For over 25 years, I have taught somatic movement in higher education to creatives in the performing arts, exploring the profound connection between personal stories, emotions, and our embodied sense of self. My journey with psychotherapy began as a client in traditional talk therapy.
Over time, my need for deeper change led me to body-centred psychotherapy. In 2017, I embarked on a four-year practical training at the London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy (LSBP). I continue to deepen my practice as an assistant trainer at LSBP.
Working together
Please get in touch if you’re curious and want to try Biodynamic Psychotherapy or if you’d like to talk and have questions. I offer ongoing weekly sessions, as well as short-term psychotherapy of six to ten sessions.
Rates
One-hour is £60 (concessions available).
Contact
Email: [email protected]