PBSP Exercises: Adding an Experiential Component to Your Counseling Practice
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Educational Goal
Increase knowledge of Pesso Boyden Systems Psychomotor (PBSP) and how to incorporate PBSP exercises into counseling sessions.
Description
The speaker will introduce the Pesso Boyden Systems Psychomotor (PBSP) method through a series of short lectures and demonstrations of six PBSP exercises. These simple exercises will add an experiential component to any counseling session, giving clients new skills to process their behavior and emotions. The exercises often create curiosity in a client about their history and its impact on their lives.
PBSP exercises focus a client’s attention on unconscious emotional energies stored in the body, often as repetitive behaviors, impulses, and bodily sensations. The exercises are grounded in a deep understanding of how the body moves, how the body responds to the environment and what the body needs to feel safe. Everyone in the workshop will have an opportunity to participate in each one of the exercises.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Joanna Ware, LPC, LMFT, Certified PBSP Therapist, has 16 years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Ms. Ware specializes in PBSP (Pesso Boyden Systems Psychomotor), an experiential body psychotherapy.
Developed as a group modality, PBSP has been adapted for use in individual and couple work. PBSP suits clients with anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, addiction, and adjustment disorders. Impressed by the healing potential of PBSP, Bessel Van Der Kolk highlighted the PBSP method in his latest book on trauma, the New York Times bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score.
Since 2014, Ms. Ware has trained extensively with Al Pesso and his certified trainers and is currently training to become a Certified PBSP Supervisor and Trainer. Since 2020, she has participated in a PBSP training team that sponsors a National PBSP three-year training program. Ms. Ware has co-led numerous PBSP exercise groups and continues to co-lead a monthly four-hour PBSP structure group.
Ms. Ware is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Alabama Counseling Association, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Alabama Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the United States Pesso Boyden Systems Psychomotor Association, and Chi Sigma Iota.