Specialised therapies
Body Therapy / Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT)
What is Body Therapy / Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT)?
- What is Body Therapy / Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT) for?
- Making emotional processes accessible through body awareness and movement
- Is Body Therapy / Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT) legally regulated?
- As a standalone offer not a legally regulated health profession. As a psychotherapy method only by registered psychotherapists. Training via specialised institutes.
- Does Body Therapy / Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT) treat illnesses?
- No, unless offered as psychotherapy. Otherwise used complementarily.
Body therapy and Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT) approach emotional topics through the body. Through awareness, movement, touch and breath, inner states become tangible and workable. The basic idea is that emotional strain often shows in the body, for example as tension, pain or exhaustion.
It is used complementarily for psychosomatic complaints, stress, trauma and stabilisation. KBT is a recognised body-oriented approach and is also used within psychotherapy.
If it is offered as psychotherapy, a registered psychotherapist is required.
What is allowed
- Strengthen body awareness and the sense of your own boundaries
- Work complementarily on tension, stress and psychosomatic complaints
- Open access to feelings and stabilisation through the body
- Foster resources and self-regulation
Where are the limits?
- No medical diagnosis and no curative treatment of physical illness
- No substitute for psychotherapy or medical treatment
- Treatment of mental illness only within registered psychotherapy
How to recognise quality
- Solid body-therapy training; for psychotherapy, registration in the list
- Transparent, mindful handling of closeness and touch
- A clear therapeutic goal
- Confidentiality
How it works
- First sessionclarify concern, setting and how touch is handled
- Bodyworkawareness, movement and breathing exercises
- Reflectionputting bodily experience into words
Costs & insurance
In institutions (hospital, rehab)usually part of care, free for patients
Private practiceprivate service, no insurance funding (except as insurance-funded psychotherapy)
Guide price private practiceapprox. 70 to 110 € per session