Focusing Oriented Therapy

A gentle path of inner listening and felt-sense awareness

What is Focusing Oriented Therapy?

Focusing is a body-oriented practice developed by Eugene Gendlin that offers a direct, experiential way of exploring your inner world. At the heart of Focusing is the felt sense — a subtle, bodily knowing that carries meaning about our experiences, relationships, and life situations, often before we can put that knowing into words.

Rather than trying to understand ourselves through thinking or analysis alone, Focusing invites us to slow down, turn our attention inward, and listen to what is emerging from within. With gentle curiosity and presence, we learn to stay with what may initially feel vague, unclear, or just beyond our awareness, allowing it to gradually reveal more of itself.

As we learn to listen in this way, something new can emerge. A felt sense may shift, new meaning may become clear, or a previously stuck place may begin to move forward. Change arises organically from within, guided by the body’s own knowing and natural movement towards healing and wholeness.

At its heart, Focusing is a practice of deep inner listening — cultivating a more intimate relationship with yourself and greater trust in your own embodied knowing.

Who is this for?

Focusing may resonate with you if you:

  • Feel drawn to self-inquiry and exploring your inner experience more deeply

  • Want to develop a more intimate relationship with yourself and your body

  • Are curious about what lies beneath familiar thoughts, emotions, and patterns

  • Want to access a deeper kind of knowing beyond intellectual understanding

  • Are interested in healing, transformation, and personal growth

  • Feel drawn to exploring the relationship between embodiment, inner knowing, and awakening

  • Want to cultivate greater trust in yourself and your own inner process

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  • “ Renata is an absolutely incredible therapist. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough! She has the gift to make you feel so welcome, seen and heard the moment you meet her. She creates an incredibly safe space for you to drop in, go deep, and fully surrender to the process. I have had incredible insights and experienced a deep transformation during our sessions. “

    Sophie S.

  • “I'm so grateful for the guidance Renata has given me. For a long time I was looking for someone to help me move beyond the state of anxiety and shutdown that I was in. It wasn't until I worked with Renata guiding me, that I was able to tap into what was driving my nervous system dysregulation and constant reactiveness. I feel so much more grounded and peaceful since the somatic healing with Renata. I'd recommend her to anyone struggling with emotional overwhelm or who wants to grow and heal.”

    Schecani

  • “I felt so grateful for the TRE practice yesterday. I feel I take something new and fresh away into my sitting practice from it.

    Renata is a very good teacher, enriched I feel, by her commitment to her own personal work.“

    Kate I.

  • “TRE was such a unique experience from which I am sure I will continue to benefit as I practice regularly. I certainly feel the best I have for quite a while and am so grateful for the way Renata led this simple but profound technique.”

    Maryanne

  • “Renata is a gifted teacher and I like very much the way she tunes in to an individual's response and honour that, whilst giving back what might be a good offering for them as well.

    I can see that Renata has studied the dharma extensively and it is fab to be the recipient of this specialised knowledge. I love the space and authenticity in her teachings as well as inclusion of relevance to trauma and the unconscious as related to processing deep feelings. I also really enjoyed the class on The Inner Critic!

    It seems to me that she lives what she teaches. It is so wonderful to experience that. “

    Deborah B.