Barra Kahn, ACCEP.
1. What's your practice focus and what kind of clients knock on your door ?
Core Energetics pinpoints places where we unconsciously create physical and emotional pain in our lives and challenges our limiting beliefs to transform.
Your body tells the story of your life. Significant change requires the body to change. Emotional issues are structured in the body. Restoring feeling and sensation in the body is a challenging but invaluable way to increase its aliveness. Talking about feelings doesn’t create change. Change happens below the level of consciousness.
2. Tell us about yourself.
I have a life-long affinity for somatic work. I have been teaching yoga for over 40 years, and was a professional dancer for more than a decade. Committed to being a conduit for change, my training and advanced certification in Core Energetics have brought together my graduate degree in Psychology and my love of exploring the language of the body. I am senior faculty at the Institute of Core Energetics and thrive on witnessing hundreds of lives I have seen transform as a result of somatic work.
3. Tell us the story of a patient who you are most proud of helping.
I worked with a 48 year-old woman who had not dated in 20 years. Her self-esteem was shattered after a series of failed relationships. She spent 20 years successfully focusing on her work, but was painfully lonely and dissatisfied. After moving the stuck energy in her body, she was able to reconnect with her heart’s desire. Shortly thereafter, she started dating and is now in a committed relationship. She has learned to love herself again and regained her passion and her joy.
4. What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a practitioner in private practice?
Holding space for and witnessing the incredible traumas that my clients have sustained is at once heart-wrenching yet gratifying. The pain that people carry in their bodies creates distortions in the body and in the mind. Supporting change, working with resistance, maintaining boundaries and always seeing people's higher self takes compassion and discipline. Opening up and moving the unconscious body armor is a labor of love.
5. What are the top 3 tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a private practice today?\
The top 3 tips I'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a private practice today are:
- Be patient.
- Get out of your own way.
- Trust that it will happen.