I think of myself as a teacher rather than a therapist. My specialist skills as a Feldenkrais® practitioner are in creating the conditions for children to learn, primarily to move better by sensing themselves more clearly.
And since movement and perception underlie everything that we do, any improvements in these abilities will also support a child’s behavioural and cognitive development.
I teach by guiding a child’s attention through touch, movement and verbal cues to create new neural pathways. This is the biological basis for organic learning.
I have helped children with:
- Learning difficulties
- Behavioural difficulties
- Movement difficulties after accidents or surgery
- Anxiety problems
- Attention deficit disorder (ADHD/ADD)
- Perception difficulties
- Scoliosis
- Undiagnosed developmental delays and difficulties
- Spasticity due to accidents and premature birth
- Brain injury
- Childhood stroke
- Cerebral palsy
- Genetic disorders
- Down syndrome
- Congenital brain defects
- Brachial plexus injury
