present sensing psychotherapy

present sensing psychotherapy I offer Gestalt therapy rooted in embodied presence and relational awareness. Welcome. Your experience matters. You matter. You are your body.

Together we explore what gets in the way of meaningful connection and uncover the resources that support you in the present moment. I offer an embodied, relational, whole-person approach to therapy that invites an expanded awareness of yourself in your relationships and in the world. I will support you to explore new insights around your ways of relating to yourself and others, allowing new perspectives, self-understanding, and compassion to grow. My focus is on wholeness and integration. I am not here to fix you, and you are not here to be fixed. Instead, together we will explore the creative ways you have learned to adapt to your environment that may now be calling out for a shift. To my therapeutic work I bring 20 years of training and experience as a voice and movement teacher, offering a strong grounding in working with your body as an integrated, adaptive, flexible, creative force.

Join Maureen Batt, soprano and I  for four experiential movement sessions (10–20 minutes each). These LIVE sessions are ...
10/25/2025

Join Maureen Batt, soprano and I for four experiential movement sessions (10–20 minutes each). These LIVE sessions are designed to give voice users and educators a direct experience of embodied movement—practical, not theoretical.

🗓️ Dates (eastern time):
* Nov 3, 2025 – 12:00 PM
* Nov 4, 2025 – 12:00 PM
* Nov 5, 2025 – 12:00 PM
* Nov 6, 2025 – 12:00 PM

📹 Can’t make it live? All sessions will be recorded and shared with registrants.
�💲 Pay what you want.

Explore embodied practice and discover how movement can support you, your teaching, and voice work.

Register via Zoom here: https://tinyurl.com/micromovements2025

10/25/2025

4 days • 10–20 minutes • Embodied movement 🌿
With Alison Taylor + Maureen Batt
For voice users * educators * therapists ✨
📹 All live sessions recorded
💲 Pay what you want
🗓️ Nov 3–6 @ 12 PM (eastern time)

Register via Zoom here: https://tinyurl.com/micromovements2025

An invitation to move and make sound together!
10/21/2025

An invitation to move and make sound together!

Hi folks, Alison Taylor and I are offering a series of PWYW sessions in November. No experience necessary. Cameras on or off. Sessions will be virtual and live, and recordings will be sent to all registrants.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/micromovements2025

These sessions are inspired by our workshop at ICVT in Toronto this summer: short, practical applications of embodied awareness for you and/or your students/clients.

This is for anyone who wants to incorporate somatic elements into their personal and professional work.

Monday-Thursday
10-20 mins a day
November 3-6, 2025

Please reach out with any questions!

SenseAble Singing with Alison Jane Taylor present sensing psychotherapy

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10/20/2025

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O’Donohue 🌿

Gestalt therapy invites us into this same flow — to awaken to our own unfolding process, to meet each moment with curiosity and presence, and to surprise ourselves with our own newness.

10/14/2025

Sometimes the ache to change the world is the same ache to become ourselves. 💫

“Your holiest pains come from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you’d like the world around you to change.” — Rob Brezsny

10/08/2025

🌳 Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit of life. - F.M. Alexander

Hello!  I am sharing some of my writing on Medium if you'd like to take a look:
09/29/2025

Hello! I am sharing some of my writing on Medium if you'd like to take a look:

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people look for therapy — but what it means can be very different for each person. The label…

09/19/2025
Sometimes we can become fixed in only being one way: I let everything in without discerning what I want or don’t want. O...
09/15/2025

Sometimes we can become fixed in only being one way: I let everything in without discerning what I want or don’t want. Or, I keep everything out, no matter what. We learn these ways for a good reason. Often it’s what’s kept us alive (belonging and connection are matters of survival). There is another way: to experience myself as both porous AND discerning allows me to have my whole range, allows me to be available to receive AND respond.

“We seek the other to find ourselves.In every moment of contacting, we are pushing against the objective information fro...
09/04/2025

“We seek the other to find ourselves.

In every moment of contacting, we are pushing against the objective information from the word, and the world pushes back.

Whatever you’re feeling right now is part of this situation.

Sometimes it takes a moment to allow yourself to be.”

Ruella Frank, lecture May 2025

In relational Gestalt therapy, we explore the idea that we need each other to find ourselves.

If this seems sightly intangible right now, consider yourself in your chair.

You meet your chair with your back/bottom/backs of thighs, and your chair meets you.

You are pushing against (resting on) your chair, and at the same time, your chair is already and aways pushing back.

You find your chair there supporting you, so that you can release yourself to the chair, as much or as little as is possible right now.

In personal relationships - including in therapy - we are asking without asking, “How much can I be myself with you? Will you still be there if I show you who I truly am?”

“Somatic” work is the study of process. We are seeking the process of what’s happening within the content of what a pers...
08/26/2025

“Somatic” work is the study of process.

We are seeking the process of what’s happening within the content of what a person is sharing.

We move from WHAT (content) to HOW (process) and back to WHAT by investigating the bodily knowing that shaped the WHAT.
- Ruella Frank

WHAT you are sharing is the content of your story.

The WHAT includes:
🧠 details
🧠 ideas
🧠 beliefs
🧠 values

HOW you are sharing it points to how you’ve learned this story about yourself.

The HOW includes:
🌱 gestures
🌱 facial expressions
🌱 sensations
🌱 movements - big and small

The HOW is often out of our awareness. When we bring the HOW into awareness we can learn more about:
✨ how you say yes when you mean no
✨ what you really think about something or someone
✨ how convinced you are about why you are the way you are, how the world works, etc.

🌳 Being With Nature: outdoor therapy sessions are now available!  ✨ link in bio
04/22/2024

🌳 Being With Nature: outdoor therapy sessions are now available! ✨ link in bio

Address

Toronto, ON

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm

Telephone

+14377477195

Website

https://alisonjanetaylor.janeapp.com/

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