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What Primal Therapy Really is:
Both an emotion-focused and body-centered psychotherapy, Primal Therapy provides the deepest access and connections to ones' feelings, sensations, and mood-states. Due to its depth, clients undergoing treatment can change limiting and debilitating lifelong patterns and chronic feeling states which have interfered with the enjoyment of life and the fulfillment of a person's individual potential.
Through the innovative techniques and therapeutic precision of Primal Therapy, many long-term clients experience remarkable growth and progress. Over time, the ever-deepening connection to their body sensations and feelings enables clients to experience life in a markedly different way resulting in increased self-esteem, deeper capacity for intimacy, better relationships, and new life or career choices. Ultimately, the Primal process can give clients a profound sense of self, along with a phenomenal sensitivity and appreciation of the richness and beauty of life.
As its theoretical cornerstone, Primal theory stresses the primacy of feelings over thoughts and behaviors in the therapeutic process, and that past history influences and typically is at the core of present day issues and behaviors. The fundamental premise of Primal Therapy emphasizes the absolute necessity of re-experiencing painful memories and past events (known as "Primal Pain") in order for clients to truly heal the mind/body split. This "split" or disconnection from feelings and sensations is the unfortunate legacy and marker of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse; early trauma; and developmental wounds and deficits. This disconnection from consciousness of overwhelming trauma is nature's way of enabling us to go on functioning and living. However it comes with a price ……the price of feeling.
That said, simply feeling pain is not enough, cognitive integration is paramount when clients "open up" to early trauma, neglect, and sensory overload. In essence, re-experiencing (emotionally and physically) the original event, and consciously connecting (cognitively) to its historical roots is what finally heals the traumatic brain and body "imprint" and is also what ultimately changes persistent present day patterns and chronic feeling states.
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