A Unique New Psychotherapy / Body Awareness Group Forming in Highland Park, Illinois
Facilitator: Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP
Eating disorder specialist and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Location: 271 Hazel Ave. Highland Park, Illinois
Fee: $100 per session
For further information contact: 847-432-1795
or email
Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP psychotherapist, author, renowned eating disorders expert, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is facilitating a unique new psychotherapy support group experience for high school students struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and/or body image disturbances. On-going group sessions take place in Highland Park, Illinois, Sunday afternoons from 1:00-2:30, in series of 12 sessions each. Offering a unique opportunity to heal typically hard-to-treat problems, these groups combine traditional (psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral) treatment techniques with a novel new experiential approach to self-awareness and learning, The Feldenkrais Method, Awareness through Movement.@ Through gentle body movement and directed attention in response to verbal instruction, the Feldenkrais Method accesses and reorganizes the skeletal and central nervous systems, creating an empowered perception of the self and of possibilities for achieving change.
By facilitating self- and body-awareness, Feldenkrais techniques connect the individual to the self and to core feelings, promoting emotional versatility and integration. Offering a novel opportunity to seek and discover alternative solutions, it enhances coping skills and adept problem-solving, upgrading all aspects of physical and mental function. The technique is designed to be gentle and pleasurable as it integrates mind and body, reduces anxiety, and increases self confidence and enhanced well-being. Paralleling the emotional goals and philosophy of psychotherapeutic treatment, for many the work has resulted in symptom cessation, diminished compulsions, and a profound sense of relief and optimism that comes with change. Group members enjoy a sense of camaraderie and belonging as they share ideas, feelings and insights with others experiencing similar life challenges.
Research results from studies that have tested the efficacy of using the Feldenkrais Method as an adjunct to traditional eating disorder treatment can be found on Abigail’s web site, www.empoweredparents.com, in an abstract translated into English from German called The Therapeutic Effects of the Feldenkrais Method "Awareness Through Movement" in Patients with Eating Disorders by Laumer U, Bauer M, Fichter M, Milz H University at Regensburg by Laumer U, Bauer M, Fichter M, Milz H University at Regensburg. Click on the link, “Feldenkrais Therapy.”
Contact Abigail Natenshon at Contact Me or telephone 847-432-1795 if you are interested in learning more about this unique opportunity for personal growth and healing.
