Testimonials

“I started my IBP training in 1989 in parallel with my MSW program at the U of C. I found the IBP Program to be both practical and transformative combining grounded psychological theory and deep process work. Phenomenal learning from the inside out was made possible within a safe holding environment of an ever-maturing group process. The required 100 hours of personal therapy provided amazing support for this growth.

The current faculty of IBP Alberta continues the lineage of excellent teachers who embody intelligence, heart and a deep capacity for presence and empathy. In contrast to my academic program I would have to say that IBP taught me how to be a therapist. It was truly a life changing training.”

“During the last three years I had the opportunity to learn and develop my skills toward becoming an IBP therapist. The results of this training has not only changed my practice in terms of how to work with clients, but shifted my own self-awareness and way of being in the world.

Such a significantly rewarding self-exploration has unfolded and, perhaps more importantly, such a deepening in my ability to connect and maintain genuineness with clients has occurred – beyond expectation. Feeling so grateful for having access to such amazing learning and growth!”

“Integrative Body Psychotherapy has been a model I have studied and experienced as a student, client, therapist and teacher over the past 3 decades. It endures as a solid model for understanding my own relationships and those of my clients. IBP supports a client’s own inner experience and builds their resources and provides them with tools for a grounded and expansive life. I am forever grateful for Integrative Body Psychotherapy, personally and professionally.”

“Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) …takes us out of the refuge of our overly conceptual “thinking” minds and deep into the body, where our lives are truly lived. It is a method that can allow us to reconnect with our essence, our true selves if you will, and re-establish deep, heartfelt emotional and social connection with self and other. For the client, in committing to work with the heart and mind of a well-trained and honed practitioner of IBP, it has great potential to be a pathway for healing old wounds and transforming the now freed up, somatically held energy, into aliveness and wellbeing.

From my perspective as an MD and now retired paediatrician, IBP is inclusive of and informed by, developmental theory… The application of the IBP model is right on the cutting, developmental edge of the current shifting paradigm of how we view mental illnesses and trauma. IBP is well worth investigating, either as a client or as a therapist interested in training in the method.”

“I have found the IBP training to be transformational in both my life and my practise. I have deeply appreciated both the skill of the teachers as well as the integrative nature of the process in combining both evidenced-based theory and personal experiential practise. As a result of this training, I would say I show up differently in relationship and for myself. I am better resourced, regulated, empathetic and mindful. I have cultivated a dual awareness of self and other. I feel confident in using this model. In my practise, clients have also reported transformational change in their own lives. I highly recommend this training.”