ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how therapists can prepare their bodies for the various roles they play in session, looking at three clinical objectives: 1) To frame the treatment, 2) To empathically join clients (like actors embody their characters), and 3) To empathically relate to clients (like actors engage their scene partners). The chakras—energy centers in the body—are introduced and explored to help therapists get a sense of how they tend to use their own bodies in their everyday lives, and how they might expand their use of body, both in their personal lives and in their clinical work.
