IBP (Integrative Body Psychotherapy) is a complete system of therapy that combines cognitive verbal work with breath & body awareness to promote integration of body, mind, emotions and spirit. It is a gentle approach that honours the interpersonal dynamics between client and therapist.
Our defensive responses to difficult earlier life experiences can result in blocks to our core self. These blocks can become chronic and habitual, resulting in diminished energy and well-being, and are causally related to physical illness. The goal of Integrative Body Psychotherapy is to bring insight and awareness to these blocks in order to release and free the energetic core self. The tools learned in IBP can be taught and used in daily life to promote and sustain increased well-being.
The seminars will include lectures, demonstrations and practice. Participants will discuss and experience how IBP combines elements of different approaches into a powerful, cohesive form of psychotherapy. The emphasis in IBP is on integration. Those who have studied or have been clients of one specific system of body or cognitive therapy will see how to bridge their work into this comprehensive body/mind/spirit map.
Boundary work is used to define the energetic sense of self. This work provides a sense of safety and trust through which people learn to interact with the world in an energetic and flexible way, responding in the present, rather than unconsciously and habitually reacting to the past.
Using a containment model, IBP methods encourage the body to enlarge its capacity to hold more energy, learning to tolerate the sense of aliveness and feelings, rather than emotionally discharging them. Breathwork and release techniques are learned to help open the body to access the sense of self and aliveness.
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Certification as an IBP therapist requires 300 hours of course work. Trainees must be licensed, or license-eligible psychotherapist, counsellors or social workers. Graduate students in mental health or other health fields may also participate if they are currently enrolled in an academic program. Applicants are considered on an individual basis.
A 200-hour certification program is also available for allied health professionals and anyone with an interest in integrating IBP principles into their practice or personal lives.
The Fewsters, Judith and Gerry, Ph.D. are senior psychotherapists who administer and direct the on-going activities of IBP in British Columbia. Gerry holds faculty positions in the Department of Applied Psychology at the University of Calgary and the Department of Health and Human Services at Malaspina University College on Vancouver Island. Judith teaches and supervises therapists in British Columbia and maintains a small private practice as a psychologist in Alberta. The Fewsters offer relationship seminars across Canada and residential couples counseling from their home on Vancouver Island.
Jack Rosenberg, Ph.D. is the founder of Integrative Body Psychotherapy. He co-directs the IBP Central Institute along with his wife Beverly Kitaen-Morse, Ph.D. Jack Rosenberg has been on faculty at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California since 1967. He is the author of Total Orgasm and co-author of Body, Self & Soul and The Intimate Couple. Master Psychotherapists, Jack and Beverly teach together at the IBP International Institutes. They each maintain a private practice and continue to publish their work as a couple.
Frances Dodsworth, M. Ed., Wendy Halowski, M.A., Maggie Jamison, Ph.D., Debbie Palmer, M.Ed, Ian Schokking, M.D. and Fran Alexander, M.A. are IBP teachers or interning teachers who assist in teaching and mentoring IBP students in British Columbia and Washington State.
For more information and details on training, please call IBP Vancouver at 604 671 4959 or send an email to info@ibpvancouver.com.
You can also learn more about Integrative Body Psychotherapy at IBP Online.
IBP Vancouver is a branch of the Pacific Northwest IBP Institute.