Alex Evans – Flow Therapy

Flow Therapy

I am a compassionate trainee Core-Process Psychotherapist with my own deeply lived experience and personal journey. I am in the final clinical year of a four year depth psychotherapy training in Core-Process Psychotherapy with the Karuna Institute. Core Process psychotherapeutic paradigm integrates Western psychodynamic principles with Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practice in a way that is unique in the therapy field, working with thoughts, emotions, body senses and awareness, imagination and spirituality. Core-Process Psychotherapy enquires into human experience at many different levels. There is a gentle invitation to reconnect to your deeper self, become curious about how present moment experience is arising in the body, bringing spaciousness to the bodymind and developing awareness of how things are from moment to moment. This holistic approach offers a unqiue way to explore our suffering and well-being. Core-Process Psychotherapy can be described as a Mindfulness-Based approach.

Alongside my Core-Process Psychotherapy training, I am a qualified integrative counsellor with a core Person-Centred counselling training. I also trained with Babette Rothschild in Somatic Trauma Therapy PG training. Since qualifying as a counsellor, I have studied a number of therapeutic trainings over the years that are intrinsic to my therapeutic approach including body focused somatic therapy, compassion focused therapy & Internal Family Systems therapy. I have a 1st class MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice.  I am also a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner with a special interest in psycho-emotional and psychophysiological bodywork which aligns well alongside Core-Process Psychotherapy.

My practice has naturally gravitated to become influenced by an integration of Eastern and Western philosophies about the bodymind and selfhood. This draws on ancient Buddhist psychology and teachings into the nature of human experience at many different levels. My work is also informed through bodymind theories and practice which combine somatic based trauma therapy, compassion focused therapy, and relational mindfulness which are intrinsic to my therapeutic practice.

My personal experience in life has been extensive, rich and deep. I’ve walked a diverse path so far through life and this has enabled me to understand and work with people from all kinds of backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles. I am committed to my own ongoing journey of personal and spiritual enquiry. Development and practices that sustain and resource me on this journey are meditation, embodied enquiry and the wisdom of the natural world.