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Messwork is a somatic practice creating process oriented interventions for clients. An alternative to traditional talk therapy, somatics emphasise bottom up, body oriented approaches to treat trauma and modify stress responses while supporting alignment, integration, fullness, and consciousness raising. Designed and run by Cristina (Cri) Gabriele, Messwork emphasises healing as a process while reclaiming and utilising its inherent messiness as a tool.

Aligning with somatic practices as a transforming through process, Messwork collaborates with clients as living, breathing compositions, seeking to create, form, reform, and rearrange selves and parts into unified wholes, naturally rehabilitating the state of consciousness.

Trauma often fractures parts, leading to splits, binds, and disjointedness. Through the co-creative Messwork process, clients can reconstitute themselves by meeting their trauma and bringing awareness to patterns, defences, and relational dynamics. Reshaping (messily), as an ongoing practice, helps evolve chronic stuckness and stress, cultivate awareness, and generate the capacity and resilience to contain and feel while supporting a more grounded, robust, and energised existence.

Grounded in somatic practices, Messwork integrates diverse perspectives throughout the modality, including Core Energetics, Bioenergetic Analysis (comprised of inquiring into discreet and sub-parts of the personality), systems thinking, role-play, and externalisation in service of the organised, integrated whole, focusing on Psychosomatic Unity, the movement toward creative evolution, and rehabilitation from within. 

At Messwork, we view each individual as a holistic entity. As such, we believe self-care is an ecosystem of nesting complementary mechanisms. Messwork is its own psychosomatic practice that recognises and works in conjunction with pathological and more traditional therapeutic modalities.