Video: Live Zoom of October 9, 2022
with Thomas Harms, MD, Matthew Appleton, MA RCST UKCP and Judyth Weaver, PhD
Live Zoom session in which the three presenters discuss parent/baby therapy techniques, based on the video below.
Video: Let’s Talk About Babytherapy
with Thomas Harms, MD, Matthew Appleton, MA RCST UKCP and Judyth Weaver, PhD
In this one hour and twenty minute video, three professional parent/baby therapists discuss general principles of their therapeutic work with babies and parents in the very early time after birth. These three experts have been Influenced by teachers from the Reichian field as well as pre- and perinatal psychology. In the first part, Thomas Harms discusses with British baby therapist, Matthew Appleton, how to invite babies to express and integrate their stories and how we can support them to get back in a state of self-regulation. An important issue is the oscillation between the therapeutic work with the parents and the body psychotherapy with the babies. In the second part, the American psychotherapist, Judyth Weaver, joins the discussion about synthesis of major principles and knowledge from the Reichian life-science and pre- and perinatal psychology into an integrative somatic psychotherapy with babies.
Thomas Harms, M.D. is a psychologist, body psychotherapist and parent/baby therapist. He has worked for more than 30 years with parents and traumatized babies and children in his private practice in Bremen (Germany). He is the director of the Centre for Primary Prevention and Body Psychotherapy (ZePP) in Bremen. In 1993 he founded one of the first special counseling centers for babies and parents suffering from regulational and posttraumatic disorders. His is founder and director of the European Association for Emotional First Aid, which includes more than 300 long term trained counselers and therapists for Emotional First Aid. He works as a trainer for Emotional First Aid and attachment oriented body psychotherapy all over Europe. He has written two books about the appoach of Emotional First Aid, and he has edited several books in the field of body psychotherapy.
www.zeppbremen.de
www.emotionelle-erste-hilfe.org
www.thomasharms.org
Matthew Appleton MA UCKP RCST is a registered Body Psychotherapist and Craniosacral Therapist living and working in Bristol, England. He a member of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine and has more than 20 years experience of lecturing, facilitating workshops and training practitioners in working therapeutically with babies, children, and their parents. For ten years he worked as a houseparent at A.S. Neill’s famous democratic school Summerhill. He is the author of more than a hundred published articles, on subjects ranging from democratic education, sexuality, psychotherapy, craniosacral therapy and the effects of pre and perinatal stress on babies and children. He has also written two books; A Free-Range Childhood. Self-Regulation at Summerhill School (2000) and Transitions to Wholeness. Integrating Prenatal, Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology (2020). The former has been published in German as Kindern ihre Kindheit zurückgeben. Selbsregulation in der Erziehung – das Beispiel Summerhill (2 nd Edition 2021).
www.conscious-embodiment.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/preandperinatal
Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D. is a multifaceted teacher and counselor, incorporating extensive training in diverse areas. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology. Judyth is the creator and founding chair of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology. She taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) for 25 years and at other graduate schools in the S.F. Bay area as well as being founding faculty at Naropa Institute, now Naropa University, (Boulder, CO) in the 1970’s, creating it’s T’ai Chi Ch’uan program. She is certified in Reichian Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Pre- and Perinatal Therapy and as a teacher of Tai Chi Chuan, a senior teacher of the Rosen Method and Sensory Awareness.
