What’s Core Energetics?

A somatic, body-based process towards holistic wellness, Core Energetics recognizes the inextricably interlaced physical, mental, emotional, volitional, and existential experiences that all conspire to shape one’s life.

The word CORE, an acronym for Center Of Right Energy, refers to the vital essence of the authentic Self that expresses uniquely in each of us. Early pain and trauma distorted and blocked the pure expression of the Core, and the problem is that many of us have grown to believe that this limited and distorted experience of our life-energy is the way things have to be.

Not so.

By engaging a person at all five levels of their human experience—those of the body, mental state, emotion, will (or action), and spirit—the process holistically facilitates personal transformation through an approach that differs from both the medical modality of therapy that focuses largely on the mental/emotional experience, and that of executive coaching which exhorts clients to use their willpower to change mindset and action.

As a coach utilizing the skills gained through becoming a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner (CCEP), I partner with you to thoroughly understand and unwind, at the source, the many ways you block yourself—whether physically, emotionally, mentally, volitionally, and/or spiritually—from authentically being, clearly thinking, deeply feeling, and effectively doing. Our collaborative process works to help you understand your attachment to these blocks, then to move beyond them and into the full life-energy that is your birthright.

Regain what you’ve lost.
Discover what you’ve never known is available to you:
Your full Life Energy.

This work is dynamic and utilizes many doorways into understanding your particular experience. It can involve a myriad of approaches designed to get beyond the limiting stories we tell ourselves, at times utilizing such interventions as expressive physical movement, breath-work, visualization, deep inquiry, conversation, shadow work, and others. The interventions used are unique to what is most appropriate for you and what you are working on at the time—and they are only ever implemented with consent. It’s an approach to personal growth work that says “YES” to the entirety of you, your experience, and all that has conspired to shape you.

The process is non-linear and spiral-like in action. With each insight comes more choice; with every internalized block dismantled, more energy. The work is rich, traverses a unique path for each person, and can have immediate impact.

This is the work of finding freedom.  

“The real self is not the ego, it is the core. The human center is the universal life principle individuated in each of us, and it cannot die. It gives and receives generously. It welcomes the invitations of living, for through living its potential is fulfilled. The aim of (the work), therefore, is to guide the fearful and isolated ego to its vital source, the core.”
--John Pierrakos, M.D., Core Energetics: Developing the Capacity to Love and Heal