present sensing psychotherapy

11/28/2025

🌿 The Phenomenology of How We Make Sense 🌿

In embodied relational Gestalt therapy, we start with your lived experience — how you feel, sense, and organize yourself in this moment.

Instead of focusing on diagnoses, labels, or fixing, we explore how experience emerges through your body, your awareness, and your relationships.

You are not a problem to be managed. You are a living, breathing human with access to a whole range of experiences.

This awareness offers us a way of understanding self-organizing and co-organizing — what it’s like to “make sense” from the inside, and what becomes possible in connection with another.

It’s not about achieving perfect regulation.

It’s about:
✨ sensing yourself
✨ noticing what’s here
✨ finding ground in your own experience
✨ contacting yourself and others with awareness

Thank you for exploring this with me — noticing what arises, what enlivens, what becomes clearer when you stay close to your felt sense, with the support of a willing, attentive, attuned other.

10/29/2025

🌿 Exploring Codependency: Boundaries, Wholeness, and Therapy Support

The word codependent gets used a lot — sometimes as a label that feels shaming or heavy.
But what if codependency isn’t something that's “wrong” with you?
What if it’s a deeply human pattern that once helped you survive, belong, and stay connected?

For many of us, needing to be needed was a creative and adaptive way to find love or safety in relationships that didn’t always offer it. Over time, that same pattern can lead to self-erasure — losing touch with our own needs and desires while focusing on someone else’s well-being.

In embodied, relational Gestalt therapy, we explore these patterns with curiosity, not judgment.
Together, we can look at how your body, emotions, and relationships hold the story of how you’ve learned to love and care — and how you can begin to include yourself in that love.

💭 What might become possible if you stopped using another person as a reason not to be yourself?
💭 What could shift if you allowed your own needs and aliveness to matter, too?

If you’re exploring therapy for codependency, anxiety, or relational trauma in Toronto or online across Ontario, I offer a compassionate, collaborative space to reconnect with your wholeness.

✨ Read the full post: https://www.presentsensing.com/blog/exploring-codependency

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

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

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

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.

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?”