Bessel van der Kolk remembers Al Pesso, with Juliet Grayson (50 mins)

Bessel Van Der Kolk remembers Al Pesso - with Juliet Grayson (50 mins)

In this conversation, Dr van der Kolk reminisces about his experiences with Al Pesso, which he wrote about in Chapter 18 of his award winning book, The Body Keeps The Score.

He shares his personal and professional experiences of Albert Pesso — co-founder of the Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) therapy. Dr van der Kolk reminisces about being Al Pesso's client, and joining Al's experiential workshops and PBSP training. Facilitating this session is Juliet Grayson, an established UK PBSP trainer and psychotherapist.

About Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
 Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent his career pioneering in trauma research and therapies, helping reshape how we understand and heal the mind-body connection. His groundbreaking work, The Body Keeps the Score, has brought trauma science into the mainstream and has been instrumental in connecting the role of the body in trauma healing.

About Al Pesso:
 PSBP is a powerful, body-based therapy developed by Albert Pesso and his wife Diane Boyden in the 1960s. This therapeutic method helps individuals reprocess past experiences and unmet emotional needs through carefully structured sessions. This innovative approach offers clients a path to healing by using body-based interventions to recreate “new memories” that fulfill unmet needs, supporting a deeper connection to self and others.

About Juliet Grayson:
 Juliet Grayson is a leading PBSP trainer and psychotherapist in the UK, with decades of experience facilitating body-based and experiential therapies. She has trained extensively under the founders of PBSP and continues to promote and expand this profound therapeutic method in Europe.

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£5.00
50 mins
Downloadable audio
CPD certificate

Interviewer

Juliet Grayson is an experienced couples therapist, trainer, facilitator, and coach. Her work has been distilled out of a twenty-five year exploration of the ways in which people limit themselves, both personally and professionally.
Having specialised in working with relationship and sexual issues since 1994, she decided to write a book :Landscapes of the Heart: the working world of a sex and relationship therapist, published April 2016. She used to write for the Huffington Post, and has done many radio a few TV appeareances.

She designed and, with her team, runs a six module course on How to Work With Couples: for therapists who usually work one to one. She combines her extensive business experience - she ran her own company for fifteen years, and a second company for twenty years - with a profound knowledge of NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), PBSP (Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor) and a deep understanding of systemic thinking.
Juliet is known in training circles for her warmth, for the thoroughness of her trainings, and for her ability to maintain a sense of fun whilst challenging those behaviours that call for a change.

She is a fully qualified psychosexual psychotherapist (UKCP Registgered, NLPtCA Acc), and a recognised supervisor (NLPtCA ) and a PBSP trainer. She has a private practice in Chepstow, South Wales.