Idi Pimenta

Reading about the ways I practice will help you to discern if my approach is likely to suit you, and whether there would be a fit for a good working partnership. My style of relational 'presence' in therapy is in contrast to more clinical 'detached' styles.

Over our life span, we encounter many situations that challenge us. What we learn from each experience becomes our unconscious blueprint for future self-projection and protection. These unconscious memories, stored in the body are inaccessible by ordinary awareness, and form the templates through which we engage in the world. In a moment of activation, the templates automatically come surging online and floods our perception. These patterns persist through life as the force that shapes our adult love relationships. These symptoms are biologically based and somatically experienced. They're coloured by unconscious conditioning, and we might continue to repeat behaviours that helped us survive our childhoods, but that sadly, abandon us and sabotage our adult relationships.

Knowing how the body and brain react to trauma opens powerful tools that can offer you hope for better attachment-individuation balance. The quality of our relationship to ourselves and others determines the quality of our lives. Relationships are everything. Transforming the way we live and love is my passion and my specialty. Contact me for heart-centred work grounded in relational neuroscience.