Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction or from stress connected with past adverse experiences perhaps in childhood? My body centered approach supports you to be empowered to address the all that lies between you and your natural healthy self.

Rik Midgley Ph.D. is a Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) practiotioner, and has been working with IFS since 2015. In 2018 he became a certified trainer of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and from 2008 he has been developing and sharing self awareness skills in his Self-Connection Qigong. Email: Rik@RikMidgley.co.uk

One to One Work Listening with curiosity and openness to how you feel in the present moment (as a consequence of your past) is the doorway to healing neurological change. The past cannot be changed, but how you relate to it and how you are now can be your choice. In welcoming all parts of your internal self, each can be seen for the life enriching role that it has been working hard at to keep you safe and well. As different parts are seen and understood, they may be held in a perspective such that alternative and more life-serving roles can be considered for each of the parts.

About Rik, his history, his training and his passions.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a new compassionate approach to psychotherapy which involves acknowledging the aspects of ourselves which habitually show up, perhaps with an emotion or an energy, and finding an understanding for their underling purpose. It is a natural process, supported by Rik’s experience of working with the body.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, is an awareness process focusing upon the relational, or what is alive when we speak and think both to ourselves and with others. By acknowledging the underling meaning and intension of our words and action, a bridge is lain between mind and body which leads to greater clarity and integrity. My somatic approach, which values the felt experience, supports a deep integrity beyond cultural influence.

Compassionate Mediation. A transformational process in which couples are supported to hear and understand the underlying message that the other yearns to be heard and recognised for.

Self-Connection Qigong Awaken the felt sense, befriend the body, and nurture understanding of the mind-body relationship in my awareness and movement workshops

A Crash Course in Psychotherapy A day’s introduction to some of the newly evolving tools of psychotherapy. Learn compassionate skills that with practice could increase self awareness, support being present and grounded, and help nurture different strategies to address stressful situations. Through understanding the mind and body, bring clarity of how some things that have happened to you in the past can impact your present emotional states and actions. Grow in acceptance of who you are and ownership of becoming who you want to be.

Our relationship to our body is foundational to our mental well-being and our resilience to stress. Our yearning to belong within modern hierarchical society invites conforming by demonising our emotions, and thus living habitually and robotically. In reclaiming our liberty and self-awareness, the journey of befriending our emotions is to understand our body’s language as being signals to inform us as to how our lives may be enriched. Every emotion is positive and beautiful. We are naturally kind by default. If you sense otherwise, in yourself or in others, then pain is present and compassion is called for. Read more in some of his essays on the resources page.

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