What Is Core Energetics?

It’s a body-based approach to depth work and spiritual transformation developed by John Pierrakos in the 1960s. The basic premise: your unresolved psychic material isn’t just in your head, it’s locked in your body, in your posture, your breath, your movement patterns. This is where we address it. There may be some lying on a couch talking about your childhood, but it’s used as an avenue into actually feeling what’s been frozen in you for years.

How is this different from talk therapy?

Talk therapy works on the level of insight. This works on the level of experience. You can talk about, analyze, and bemoan why you're the way you are forever, and nothing changes. What actually catalyzes change is feeling in your body, in real time. We use movement, breath, physical interventions, and altered-states. This is not a modality of passive-analysis, sessions are often very active and often very challenging.

What is a session like?

It depends on you and where you're at. Some sessions look close to a conversation. Others get more physical—movement, breathwork, release work. I follow what's actually alive in the room, not a script.

Do you take insurance?

No. Sessions are $150 for 50 minutes, with a sliding scale available if you need it.