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Alex Brew
London NW3
- Spirituality
- Creativity
- Nature connection
Introduction
I am a BFA-recognised Focusing Practitioner with over ten years of experience. In Focusing sessions you can expect to develop trust in your felt sense of your life situations and move beyond talking about issues and allow for somatic release.
What services do I offer?
I offer one-to-one sessions and workshops. Focusing is a skill that can be taught through a series of steps that help you approach the meaning of your felt experience. In sessions, you’ll learn to tap into the meaning held in your felt sense by accessing the body-mind. Your body may communicate to you in images and metaphors as well as sensations and emotions. These provide a rich path you can follow towards a felt resolution of the issue. These shifts happen gently as you watch, listen and interact with part of yourself. These parts begin to feel heard and claim your attention after all this time being pushed down. Finally these parts that have been relegated to the subconscious body will give you meaning and a sigh of relief! Uncovering layers of yourself will create a feeling of warmth or a lightening of the issue.
Focusing isn’t only a practice that can help us cope with the feelings inside – whatever they may be. It can help us direct our lives - and everything we do - from within. We all have a gut sense of the situations we’re living in but it's rare that we tune into that gut sense enough to move from that place. Focusing can become part of your tool kit that helps you understand your experiences and bring meaning back.
You can begin to practice some simple aspects immediately in your own life. Once you know Focusing you’ll always be able to do it – that may be with a Practitioner, a Focusing partner, alone or most often with a combination of ways of working. Focusing is a process that takes time to learn and develop. I suggest that new clients give themselves the experience of at least 5 sessions to get an understanding of the skill.
One-to-one session price £75 in person and £40 on Zoom. Pre-paid 5 online session block price for clients with no previous experience of Focusing £180. Please contact me regarding concessions if needed.
For group bookings please contact me.
I am part of the LGBTQI+ community and welcome everyone.
My background in Focusing
Focusing has been embedded in my life for around a decade. I currently give Focusing guest lecture workshops on a university counselling course and work one-to-one with clients online or in person. I am a Reiki practitioner and am happy to work with you using mixed modalities. I enjoy using Focusing to make art work and have facilitated workshops for using Focusing in art-making.
Qualifications
Focusing Practitioner
Reiki Practitioner
Level 3 counselling
Qualified Teacher
How do I practice?
Testimonials
a) "Focusing is a wonderful practice that has enabled me to get in touch with and accept a lot of difficult emotions I'd been holding in, and Alex is very skilful and patient in accompanying and gently guiding me on the journey." Kevin, one-to-one sessions
b) I found the focusing very powerful and it brought up a lot of stuff for me that I’ve taken into my therapy. Counselling training – Nikki, one-to-one sessions
c) Thank you so much for the sessions we had today and yesterday. I found them very useful, rich and enlightening. As well as tender and sweet. Ania Hardy, Singer/Songwriter, one-to-one sessions
d)The last sessions I had with you were very powerful and I feel as though I need to trust my focusing process to find more inner space. Daniel Cunningham, Performance Artist. Visiting Lecturer.
e)“It was very nice to have a space and time to be creative and listen inside myself – and to be guided through it. Also, to share and hear from others. Thank you.” Anon, from a workshop
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