Amir Atsmon
Psychotherapist, MA
Dramatherapy and Somatic Therapy
You are invited to a therapeutic process
That offers open, curious conversation
Connection to the body and its healing wisdom
A safe encounter with difficulties and crises
Where you can practice self-regulation abilities
Change thought and behavior patterns
And get to know different parts of yourselves.
If you are dealing with
Depression or Anxiety
Difficulties in relationships
Specific areas of dysfunction
Feeling stuck and left behind
Chronic insecurity and self-criticism -
You don't have to go it alone
And there are many tools
and insights that can help
Therapy does not have to be heavy or stressful
It can pleasantly unfold
In conversation, between body and mind,
In creative sparks that show something deep
In an open, inviting encounter
even with difficult moments and feelings.
Why Drama?
While it is very important to 'talk things out,' many people find that therapy that is just about talking can be quite limited for them. Some of us hide behind pretty, important-sounding words, seldom touching on our true emotions and experiences; others simply find themselves 'spinning their wheels' in conversation, without making actual progress.
Should you choose to make use of the following tools and techniques in therapy, you may find that going beyond words means discovering an entire world of experience, self-discovery, presence, working through and healing. Therapeutic work with drawing, painting, writing, drama or music, objects or cards - provides access to deeper levels of the psyche, which are not always available to words. This kind of work also allows us to be 'in process,' in a state of seeking, where we can truly surprise ourselves and find out something new.
Creative arts therapy focuses on our strengths and abilities, on our inherent creativity and playfulness as human beings, which are an essential aspect of our resilience. It reminds us that the resources we need in order to heal are already within us.
Dramatherapy invites us to explore our mind, our life and our relationships in an experiential manner, which unveils the different roles we gravitate to in work and in intimacy. It allows us to meet and process the internal and external characters that run our lives and offers an outlet for lively, spontaneous self-expression.
Why Somatics?
The body has its own wisdom of healing: when given the time and the space, it knows how to regulate and process difficult and complex emotions for us. 'Somatic' or body-centered therapy invites us to focus on our physical experience and the way our body holds resources and strengths for us alongside difficulties and traumas.
According to this approach, trauma is a survival response - fight, flight or freeze - that has remained trapped inside the body and we need to help the body release it. Much of the anxiety, rage, depression, stuckness or despair we feel are difficult moments that our body is still carrying with it, years after they had passed, even though we had survived and moved on.
To release this grip on the past, we will use various tools that regulate and reduce stress and anxiety - breathing exercises, meditation, movement, and more - as well as experiential work with memory and imagination that helps the body put the past behind, allowing us to move forward free and unburdened.
Why Therapy?
We come into this world with a mind and a body that seek to grow through a safe, nourishing and validating encounter with the people around us. That is our essence as human beings: to develop through relatedness. From the very first moment, something in us sets out to meet the world with a sense of wonder, adventure and joy, waiting to discover what is out there, as well as what is in here, inside of us.
Sometimes, however, the environment we encounter early on ends up teaching us painful lessons about being connected to others and to ourselves, limiting our passion and aliveness and restricting our ability to meet the world. Lessons learned become habits, habits become rules, and rules fade into 'this is how it is' - this sense of being stuck, of being forbidden - that's me, that's life, that's reality.
The good news is that whatever feels like daunting, unchangeable reality, can also grow softer, can be traced back into the lessons we had learned. We can take a second look at the experiences, events and patterns that taught us those lessons and find something different and new. We can relive those moments with the resources we had lacked back then, creating new learning - the kind that matches who we want to be, with openness, presence, compassion, curiosity and free self-expression.
Let's Connect
0508-213144
My office is on
13 Shalom Aleichem St., Tel Aviv
I also work online