Our relationship with ourself
determines the quality of our relationship with life.
Make peace with yourself
Hello! And welcome.
I’m Camilla Walker.
I’m an Ontological Psychosomatic Integration therapist, Yoga teacher, Kirtan leader and facilitator and I help people make peace with themselves.
I’m passionate about helping people to cultivate a stable, restful and compassionate self-relationship because I believe that our relationship with our self determines our relationship with everything else – with the world around us, with our work, our sense of belonging and purpose, and with others.
Being alive is being in a relationship with life:
let’s make it a meaningful one.
Ontological
Psychosomatic
Integration (OPI)
– the process of self, as mind and body, coming together to unlock a deeper and more fully expressed experience of who we really are.
ontological (adj)
Ontology is the part of philosophy that studies being, and what it means to exist.
This means I work with you – the whole you. Your mind, body, heart, imagination, emotion, soul (whatever that means to you) and how you inhabit all of those dimensions within your life. Together we work with identity – the lived experience of who we are – to navigate a path of self-discovery, rather than it being a fixed, limiting, concept.
It means working with your inner world. Establishing a wholesome relationship with the many and often conflicting aspects of the psyche that exist just below the surface – not as something to fear, but as something to learn from and ultimately embrace. Giving these inner parts space shifts them into a harmonious relationship with one another and with you, no matter your past relationship with them or with yourself.
This process is often profoundly cathartic, spontaneous, at times deeply moving, clarifying, instructive, funny, empowering, affirming, and loving – essentially, it’s human. We will work from the premise that beneath any label, categorisation or language, your being is something deeply valuable and empowering to discover, and a key to creating a meaningful, fulfilling and wholesome life.
psychosomatic (adj)
Of the interaction between the mind and mental processes, and the body and physical processes.
This means I work exploring the interconnection of the body–mind. Integrating the dualism or ‘splitting’ of the body and mind that is a Western cultural bias for so many of us. I do this by working with emotions, beliefs, narratives, and ideas; exploring how your emotional and cognitive experience plays out in the body as feeling and sensation. And at the same time, working with how the mind responds to physical experience. I work with what is raw, tangible, urgent and demanding in our system as well as with what is quiet, distant, repressed, absent or desired.
It means rebalancing overthinking and cognitive emphasis into a peaceful relationship with the body and nervous system. Adjusting your relationship with unwanted feelings (through gaining access to the wisdom they hold in your body) can move you through the stuckness of feeling trapped. I work with restoring the body-mind connection – nurturing the capacity for ‘gut feeling’, intuition and self-trust at a physical level.
This is profound work and in my own and my clients’ experience, regularly facilitates breakthroughs for people much more quickly and deeply than traditional talking therapies.
integration (n)
The process of bringing two or more things together into one; i.e. bringing the disparate parts of self together into wholeness.
The integrative dimension of my work is – by definition – more than one- dimensional! I draw on aspects of modern Western psychology and psychotherapy; ancient Yogic and Meditative Philosophy; coaching and personal experience.
Real life includes contradiction, nuance, variety, and a multiplicity of truths. As such, it does not feel right to me in my professional practice to align exclusively with any one singular theoretical approach of discipline. This integrative approach liberates me – and you – from the constraints of any one specific theory or approach, and instead favours an interdisciplinary, fundamentally alive approach to therapy.
The integrative aspect of my work is also relational. The Client-Therapist relationship itself is integral to the effectiveness of the work. During sessions I am attuned, observant, sensitive, embodied in my own experience and wholly with you. I am committed to ensuring that the Client-Therapist relationship is truly compassionate ethical, professional and human.
Areas of therapeutic experience
Stress
Worry
Anxiety
Depression
Burnout + Overwhelm
Emotional Regulation
Disordered Eating
Self-Esteem, Confidence + Acceptance
Self-Exploration + Discovery
Inner Child Work
Obsessive/Intrusive Thoughts
Perfectionism
Overthinking
Mindfulness + Meditation
Therapeutic Application of Yoga Practices
Interpersonal Relationships
Find
Integrative Calm,
through Self-Enquiry.
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