Connie van der Arend

Practice for Natural Medicine and Body Oriented Therapy
Prins Hendrikstraat 33,
2518 HG Den Haag
T: 070-3563390     
E: info@connievanderarend.nl
I: www.connievanderarend.nl

Connect to who you really are. Experience that you live with heart, soul and mind.

Body-oriented Therapy
Body-oriented therapy focuses on restoring the contact with our Self: to feel who am I, what do I really want. Contact with the inner (healing) power allows us to feel more energetic and mentally more balanced. I work with the vision that the body has a cellular memory. Events in our lives, which we do not want to process, are stored in cellular memory. Understanding these events, such as unprocessed experiences from childhood, are not sufficient. Only when the cellular memory is addressed and old themes are released from the cells, we find that we can change the patterns of our life and the body can recover and heal itself. In my sessions I also take into consideration the family constellations, parents and sibblings. My experience is that, even at the level of the cellular memory, the influence of the family of origin plays a role. For example we may, as children, carry the energy of problems or trauma from our parents. I therefore integrate systemic work into the body-oriented therapy.

The session
In the session I focus not so much on the techniques of different types of massage (reflexology, meridians). Touching is key. The quality of making contact, and to feel what is happening in this contact, is essential in my way of working. With this empathic touch (both of the body and the energy field) I invite the soul to come back into contact with the body..

Connie van der Arend
During my work in hospitals, 25 years ago, I realized that I want to work with people in a different way. My quest led me to the Academy of Natural Medicine Hippocrates, Bloemendaal. After this four year course, my search continued. Several other courses and training I have followed, such as Foot reflexology in Germany, Haptonomy,  Meridian and Colour therapy, Energy work, NLP courses and Systemic work. I also wrote a book together with Henk Goossens: healing with focus, emotional aspects of illness and health. Although all these courses have enriched me very much, I become increasingly aware that, what really matters is attention and sincere contact with myself and others.

I am a member of the NWP (Dutch Working Group for Natural health practitioners). Many health insurance companies reimburse (all or part of) my sessions.