Hope Robertson - Therapist, Healer, Guide
Body . Energy . Soul
The shape of a session
One of the more important aspects of a session is your intention for our work together. I will ask you before we meet to find your intention for what it is that draws you to do deep transformational work. And if you’re not clear about or don’t really have a clear intention, that is OK too. Your intention holds and guides us throughout our work together. As we make this journey together it may be that you may find that a deeper or more significant intention may arise.
Entering a session
On entering a session I like to take a few minutes to settle and orient, take a breath and become present within yourself. Often, I may lead a presencing practice to support and assist you to come into your session. Or I may support you to do your own presencing practice that helps you to enter our time together.
We begin with settling in. I invite you to gather yourself from the day or weeks events and then connecting in with each other. We check in deeply with what is arising for you in your body, heart and mind and take a moment to ground within into the moment. In this way we can enter the threshold of the session together.
Body of a session in person or on zoom
The biggest difference between a phone session or in person is that in person there is the opportunity for table and sound therapy work in person.
One important principal that I employ in my sessions is one I learned from my teacher Ray Castellino. The pause. I may call a pause if I want to slow down and listen deeper, to feel more of what you are saying and to keep pace with the energy that may be arising. I listen deeply on many levels to what you are communicating through your body language, words, emotions, spirit and energy. In this way I can attune to what is emerging in the session.
Depending on where we want to go during our session together perhaps doing table-work, such as cranial sacral, is the next step to help your nervous system to settle and come into greater regulation. This table work is done fully clothed face up on the table. I generally begin at the feet and slowly move up to your head and neck. This hands on part of the session is a beautiful way for you to experience the wholeness and wellness that is innate within you.
Completion of the session
I will often end our table work or therapy work time with sound therapy. Tibetan bowls and acutonic gongs. This is the final culmination of feeling the deep space of well being within us. The place where our mind and thoughts, our worries and patterned behavior lets down into deep relaxation and open space. It is also a place where the material we brought up within the session gets integrated and digested into our life. Where we feel bigger than our trauma, our distress, and we are in touch with the gift our our true vital well being and our innate wholeness..
"Working with Hope has been an incredible resource and blessing in my life, during an especially vulnerable time. This process has helped me recover from a disruptive experience as well as turn toward and re-evaluate the direction of my life during a turning point phase. As a woman and practitioner in this community, I am so grateful for Hope and her support. I highly recommend working with Hope if you feel called!"
“I have worked with Hope for over 10 years and have grown so much with her as my therapist. She has a wealth of experience and knows how to give plenty of space for internal issues to emerge and be processed. She is very familiar with birth trauma and blends the psychological and the spiritual. I recommend her highly.”
"Hope has a natural ability to feel into what needs to be tended to and align with her natural healing ability to support others. I have always gotten a lot out of my sessions with her and am able to go deep into my somatic body and access deeper layers of healing~ Always feeling served. Hope has a beautiful way of holding space and being with what is. I feel safe, held and cared for with Hope and couldn’t recommend her more”