HERE IS AN 8 MINUTE FILM OF PEOPLE TALKING WHO HAVE BEEN ON A PESSO BOYDEN RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP WITH JULIET GRAYSON

“PBSP is like alchemy – I feel so clear and supported in new ways.”
Fiona MacCallum, who is a therapist,
about a week after her structure as a client.

For other articles about PBSP personal development link on the menu bar at the top of the page.

What is Pesso Boyden?
Click here to read an overview

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Author of The Body Keeps the Score

“It’s the only thing that I feel really works, and that’s the stuff I learned from Al Pesso, to actually give people a visceral experience of what it would have been like as a small kid to have people be there for you. It’s absolutely transformative.”
(see below for 3 minute film of him saying this)

This is what Bessel van der Kolk, about the method Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy (PBSP), when talking about Trauma and Abandonment. Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, and researcher based in Boston, USA. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score. Chapter 18 in this book is all about PBSP. Read that chapter here

To share this link with Bessel, use https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-Bvk-Best-One-reduced-size-not-tc.mp4

And furthermore, click below for another 2 minutes from him

Click here for the transcript from the first video on this page – Bessel van der Kolk on PBSP and trauma

PODCAST VIDEO
In 2021 Juliet did a podcast for Trauma Thrivers, which can be watched here explaining PBSP and the PBSP thinking about trauma and attachment – i.e. forming a secure relationship with the parents. You can download the same audio here.

ARTICLE
To read an article about PBSP for the SOLUTIONS TO TRAUMA E-BOOK – https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/PBSP-in-Solutions-to-Trauma-EBOOK.pdf

JULIET’S BOOK
Landscapes of the Heart: The Working World of a Sex and Relationship Therapist is about Juliet Grayson’s work with couples and with Pesso Boyden (over half the book is about the Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy). To purchase a copy to be posted within UK click here To buy a copy to be posted to other countries click here. For more info about the book (which was shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize) click here

A REAL SESSION: A 15 Minute Film Showing Extracts From a Filmed PBSP Structure With a Real Client: Click here to watch

WATCH A 10 MINUTE ADVERT FOR THE TRAINING: Which includes short clips of client sessions click here

OTHER WEBINARS: Create an account on https://jandw.thinkific.com/ and then look for
‘Pesso Boyden System from the Client’s Perspective.’
This is a film of me talking to a client and we show 40 minutes of extracts from his session. If you use the code pbsp you can watch this for free. Otherwise it is £1.
There are other webinars about PBSP on this site.

WEBINARS: If you are a therapist and watch one of these, you can claim a CPD certificate for one hour, by answering a very short quiz.

PBSP: Transformation That Lasts A Lifetime: Click here to watch Juliet interviews a client who had one PBSP session 6 months previously. This was broadcast in April 2020

PRE-RECORDED: DISCUSSION WITH A CLIENT 4 MONTHS AFTER THEIR SESSION: INCLUDES 40 MINUTES OF FILM SHOWING HIS PESSO BOYDEN THERAPY SESSION: 1 HOUR 15 MINS
NB You will be asked to sign up, before you watch it. Ther eis no charge to watch this.
https://jandw.thinkific.com/courses/pbsp-from-the-clients-perspective

PBSP: Using Touch in Therapy With Extracts from a Video of a Client Session: Click here to watch (using the 15 minute film above, with Juliet commenting on what is happening). This was broadcast in July 2019

PBSP: Body Based Solutions Provide the Deepest Healing: Click here to watch This was broadcast in May 2019

Below is a short audio clip from a client describing their experience of a Pesso day. (audio clip 43 seconds long)

READ A BOOK: LANDSCAPES OF THE HEART: The working world of a sex and relationship therapist. Over half of this book is about PBSP, describing what happens in client sessions. See more here, and purchase a book. http://landscapesoftheheart.co.uk/

TOPICS YOU MIGHT WANT TO WORK ON IN PBSP

Neglect and not having had your needs met
Trauma
Pre-verbal damage
Early attachment problems
Over responsibility, and having to look after others as a child
Excessive compassion and feeling oversensitive
Sexual abuse as a child or adult
Inappropriate aggression and sexuality
Lack of boundaries
Wanting to control others
Almost everything!

BOOKS THAT INCLUDE PBSP:

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk (This book has 1 chapter on PBSP Chapter 18)
• Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy by Petra Winnette and Jonathan Baylin
• Landscapes of the Heart: The working world of a sex and relationship therapist by Juliet Grayson (This book has 3 chapters on PBSP)
• Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How the Body Holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them by Maggie Scarf (This book has 3 chapters on PBSP)
• Moving Psychotherapy: Theory and Application of Pesso System/Psychomotor edited by Albert Pesso and John Crandell
• La Terapia Pesso-Boyden: Para Lograr Una Vida llena De Placer, Satisfacción, Significado Y Conexión. By Diane Boyden-Pesso, Lowijs Perquin, Albert Pesso, Translated by Montserrat Foz Casals