28/04/2024
I work with children in clinic, helping with such things as anxiety, school problems, ASD/ADHD.
This is a picture done by an 8 year old client this week.
I gave him this as home work and mum sent me this pic.
When working with children, I often do nervous system regulation work through working with the felt sense and what colour the body is when experiencing different feelings .
This boy was experiencing night terrors and separation anxiety . When he experienced these feelings his body felt a dark blue and very heavy and scary.
We needed to remind his body what calm feels like, so we used his mums arms as she was in the room.
Otherwise i usually use Amber at this stage.
When his body was calm and safely connected his body felt this beautiful soft green.
So we mapped these feelings into his nervous system .
This is a deep psychotherapy process, to help rewire the body and nervous system and learning to self regulate.
The separation anxiety is an indication that the body is finding it difficult to self regulate .
After a beautiful session together i asked him to go home and draw this - as a way to integrate what we did in therapy.
Since this first session he has been sleeping better and much calmer.
