Metaphoric Psychotherapy
Beyond words: where metaphors and the body meet.
Your right brain speaks in images. We listen.

Return to what you were born with — sensation, image, emotion.

A visual language for the truths that words cannot carry.

 

Sometimes, a single image can do what a thousand explanations cannot.

An emotion you can’t name. A memory you can’t quite recall. A sense that something matters—but you don’t know why.

That’s when metaphor steps in.

 

Metaphoric Psychotherapy is designed for those moments when language falls short—but healing still longs to happen. This approach bypasses the rational brain and speaks directly to your felt sense—the part of you that feels before it speaks.

 

When you select a metaphor—or a card, an image, a story—you’re not choosing with logic. You’re choosing from intuition, memory, body, and emotion. It’s not about “what it means.” It’s about what resonates.

🌀 Try it now: Let your body choose. Let your heart answer before your mind can.

🌀 This is a practice of trusting your inner sense.

 

Words may organize thoughts—but images illuminate what has been hidden.

In a culture like the United States, where logic, linearity, and verbal clarity are often overvalued, emotional truths can get stuck between the lines. But trauma lives in the right brain—in metaphors, symbols, and body-based memory.

That is why metaphor is not just expressive—it’s restorative.

 

In Metaphoric Psychotherapy, what is internalized can be gently externalized.

The unspeakable becomes visible.

The vague becomes vivid.

And your story becomes reclaimable—not through analysis, but through resonance.

 

✨ This is not about dissecting your feelings. It’s about honoring them.

🖼 It is a visual and somatic dialogue with your deeper self.

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The purpose of Metaphoric Psychotherapy

is to externalize the images and metaphors related to shock or trauma that spontaneously arise in the brain and are difficult to verbalize.

 

This approach is also useful when verbalization itself is being used as a defense mechanism—a form of intellectualization that helps avoid trauma.

Before accessing language (the left brain), we begin by connecting with imagery and metaphor (the right brain).

This can feel like returning to a state before we had to master the adaptive systems of our social culture—a return to the directness of experience itself.

 

It invites you to notice how deeply we are trained to rely on intellect, and how strongly we believe we cannot connect with others without words.

 

In this culture, instant interpretation and verbal output in response to external stimuli is a survival skill.

If we cannot verbalize our thoughts, feelings, or sensations, we are often perceived as having “nothing” to share.

Many of us have had to fight to acquire language, precisely because without it, we weren’t seen or understood.

 

This work invites you to revisit the pre-verbal world before the age of five—a time when you could rest in sensation, be playful, and feel safe without the need for explanation.

 

As adults, we tend to use imagery and metaphor in overwhelmingly negative ways.

For example, depression can be seen as a kind of “Negative Trance State”,

in which we are immersed in a flood of automatic negative metaphors and images that feel as if they are real.

And then, from that right-brain experience, we desperately try to explain it with words—

even though it is precisely the kind of experience that resists verbal explanation.

 

We are born with a natural capacity to process negative images and metaphors through play.

Children who have experienced trauma often lose the ability to play— and play therapy helps them recover that vital inner space.

This is true for adults as well.

 

Just as we are capable of vividly generating negative images and metaphors,

we can also intentionally create and experience positive ones— and those, too, can influence us as if they were truly real.

 

Let’s rediscover together how to use our inborn imagination and creativity in a life-affirming direction.

 

Before I trained as a Somatic Psychotherapist, I studied at a Jungian-based training center from 1993 to 2000, where I learned sandplay, image-based, and expressive art therapy.

In 2017, I once again encountered a therapeutic world that bridges the imagination with the body.

 

I completed training in both SEE FAR CBT and The Soul Creatures’ Land, and became a certified facilitator of Metaphoric Psychotherapy through The Soul Creatures’ Land.

Both approaches integrate imagination, body sensation, and cognition— how you narrate and make sense of your world.

 

In my Metaphoric Psychotherapy sessions, I weave these techniques flexibly into the flow of our work, and I always welcome your preferences and choices in how they are used.