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About Messwork

Messwork is a somatic practice that creates process-oriented interventions for clients. An alternative to traditional therapy, somatics emphasize bottom-up, body-oriented approaches to treat trauma and modify stress responses while supporting alignment, integration, fullness, and consciousness-raising. Designed and run by Cristina (Cri) Gabriele, Messwork emphasizes healing as a process while reclaiming and utilizing its inherent messiness as a tool. Aligning with somatic practices as a transforming through process, Messwork collaborates with clients as living, breathing compositions, seeking to create, form, reform, and rearrange selves and parts into unified wholes, naturally rehabilitating the state of consciousness. Trauma often fractures parts, leading to splits, binds, and disjointedness. Through the co-creative Messwork and Messwork Practice Building process, clients can reconstitute themselves by meeting their trauma and bringing awareness to patterns, defenses, and relational dynamics. Reshaping (messily), as an ongoing practice, helps clear blocks, awareness, and the capacity to contain and feel while supporting a more grounded, robust, and energized existence. Grounded in Core Energetics, Messwork integrates diverse perspectives throughout the modality, including Bioenergetic Analysis and Parts Work (comprised of inquiring into discreet sub-personalities), systems thinking, role-playing, and externalizing in service of the organized, integrated whole, focusing on Psychosomatic Unity, the movement toward creative evolution, and rehabilitation from within. At Messwork, we view and work with each individual as a holistic entity addressing personal and professional life from a systems-based lens. As such, we believe self-care is an ecosystem of complementary mechanisms. Messwork is its own psychosomatic practice that recognises and works in conjunction with pathological and more traditional therapeutic modalities.

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