My orientation
My therapeutic approach is psychodynamic, trauma informed, compassion focused, body and brain-based, and neurodiversity affirming. I am trained in somatic experiencing and brainspotting, and guided by Jungian and other depth theories, Internal Family Systems and Gestalt principles, mindfulness, pranayama, and polyvagal theory.
I have been drawn to these theoretical frameworks, practices, and principles in a search for the factors that support healing. I believe that our systems have an intelligence that orientates towards reintegration and that we retain an indestructible core that is whole, stable, connected, and joyful.
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Healing comes less like a falcon
with mighty wings,
and more like an earthworm
that slowly, slowly moves
beneath it all, tightening up,
then stretching out, tightening up
and stretching out, a simple
two-part rhythm. Some days,
that is all the body can do.
Contract. Expand. Contract. Expand.
In the meantime, through this
artless act, what is dense
becomes porous.
In the meantime, what is stuck
and clotted gets moved around.
What is dead passes through,
is processed by the grit inside.
There are tunnels now in the soil of me,
thin channels of recovery—
a blessed loosening,
a gradual renewal.
It’s unhurried, but
I feel the air, the rain,
the life coming in.
~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
therapy@michelleprevost.co.za
064 436 0500 (WhatsApp text or SMS only)
Michelle Prevost
Clinical Psychologist
MA Clin Psych (Stell)
HPCSA registration PS0155659
Practice number PR1175750
