Therapist Notes: Movement as a body psychotherapy tool

Leslie Ann Costello
4 min readSep 10, 2021

Why and how to use movement in a therapy session

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

There are jokes about the therapy couch, but people expect to sit and talk during therapy. As I’ve said before, talking as the only healing path is limiting. Somatic therapists have other tools. Movement is an important one.

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Leslie Ann Costello

Psychologist and bioenergetic psychotherapist, writer. Occasional kitchen magician. Find my fiction under my pen name, Annie M. Ballard