Virtual sessions – are they possible?

Be prepared to GET WEIRDED OUT BY THIS (I was a couple of months ago, when it was first suggested to me)!

One or two of my existing clients asked me if I would continue to see them into the lockdown by giving them virtual Craniosacral Therapy sessions. I knew other people who’d practiced this way in the past, but I had always cringed at the term ‘distance healing’….the very idea makes me squirm still now – how ‘woo woo’ can you get and anyway, how could it possibly work!!? It was certainly nothing that I had tried before.

However, leaving people midway through their process is bloomin’ horrible and not in their best interests, so it made me consider if it possible that I could help on some level….

For someone who has always relied heavily upon the information that my hands give me during sessions, I was very tentative in my approach and explained to the clients in question that this was all new to me, I had no idea if or how it would work, but that they could pay a much reduced rate for the first ‘trial’ session and we would both see how things went, no pressure to continue from either side.

Now, I must point out that there is currently great debate and disagreement within the CST world about whether virtual CST can be called CST at all, because obviously some of the main elements of traditional CST are not there (eg hands on touch!), so this therapy literally does not yet have a name, but one thing is for sure, we are not allowed to call it CST (which I agree is right).
 

Having now done quite a few virtual sessions with various clients, I can say that working without my hands, and discovering for the first time what I can sense without physical touch is obscure to say the least and I’m not sure I can explain it! And I honestly never would have believed that it could work like it does. Its not the same, it clearly is not the same, but I am seeing really amazing results (even with pain)!
 

I should add that I have a foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy, so whilst talking therapy isn’t usually my focus, it is a skill that I have and one that obviously can and should be utilised at the moment, and this is a lot more transferable to online sessions (!) it is also an option.
 

So, the long and short of it is, that virtual sessions are available and I am opening them up to more people. My priority as always is to ensure that I am putting my clients best interests first, so the offer of virtual sessions is limited…..

  – The first criteria is that you must have been to see me for therapy before.

– Secondly, I need to genuinely feel that you are likely to benefit from the session.  What I mean by this is that I need to be confident that I can ‘hold’ you safely throughout, that we are able to ‘connect’ and therefore that it is possible for me to either facilitate change through our mutual ability to tune into your body (I will help you to do this) or provide you with psychotherapy (or a mixture of the two).

Some people would rather wait until I can see them face to face again and of course that is completely fine (I seriously cannot WAIT to get back to that, there is no substitute for hands on therapy), but if you think you would benefit from some help in the meantime, please do give me a call on 07956 390419, I’d love to hear from you.  You can tell me how you’re doing, I’ll explain more about how virtual sessions work  and we’ll discuss your best way forward. Help is here!  
 

AND, I am offering the first virtual session at the much reduced trial price of £30, so why not give it a go!