steven@aliveness.com.au    

Aliveness.....is a state of wellbeing!

Health Aliveness can support your wellbeing through:

  • Somatic (or body-oriented) psychotherapy and counselling.
  • The Aliveness course.  An experiential program that supports your self awareness, resilience and sense of connection with yourself, with others and with life.  This  can be taken as an  8 week (one night a week)  format or a weekend format.
  • Resources such as reading, relevant links and appropriate referals. 


Steven Lendrum is the primary practitioner at Health Aliveness and he specialises in the resolution of the effects of trauma and the restoration of 'bodymind' wellbeing.  The effects of trauma can include anxiety, depression, difficulties in relationship, problems with sleeping and flashbacks.

The causes of trauma can be many and varied and may include childhood experiences that were less than optimal and may have resulted in insecure or avoidant patterns of attachment rather than secure.  Perhaps the trauma has come about through separation or loss of a loved one or maybe a car accident, drugs, domestic violence or the result of bullying. 

Through the process of therapy and/or groupwork, old habits and ineffective ways of being can fall away and new experiences of self confidence, emotional balance, vitality, presence and connection with others may develop in their place.

Steven assists clients to transform their lives by reflecting with them on their current experience, thoughts, feelings, actions and goals. The process is organic and follows the process and needs of the client.  While much of the work involves conversation, sometimes transformation can be facilitated by working more directly with a client's bodily experience.  

Body oriented principles include noticing and understanding 'non-verbal' communication such as body posture, patterns of breath, skin tone, the state of the nervous system, emotional expression and illnesses (or states of dis-ease).  Applying body oriented principles can be as simple as bringing awareness to posture and patterns of breathing.  If a person is feeling overwhelmed by feelings of anger or sadness it may be useful to focus on how those feelings are experienced as sensation within the body as a way of gaining perspective and resources.  The therapy usually focusses on strengths and resources as a foundation and from there will tend towards learning how to move more freely and easily in life and to have more choice in responding to various situations.  In some cases particular exercises or biodynamic massage techniques may be appropriate to support particular movement. The therapy is consultative and works within a strong frame of respect, confidentiality and ethics.

Steven Lendrum has practiced somatic psychotherapy since 1991.  He is the President of the Australian Somatic Integration Association (ASIA) and is on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) register.  He also teaches Somatic Psychotherapy, Counselling and Wellbeing within various organisations throughout Sydney.

For more information  call (02) 9713 1005 or 0410 504 394
or email  steven@aliveness.com.au or press the 'appointment' tab to initiate an appointment.



QUALIFICATION DETAILS - Steven Lendrum
Grad Dip Psychotherapy, Grad Cert Adult Ed, Cert Somatics, Mind as Body/Body as Mind Training, MASIA, PACFA reg. # 20273


   
 
                     
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