Sheila Camino joined us this month working from our Alton clinic. Sheila has over 20 years experience as a therapist and counsellor. You can find out more about craniosacral therapy and Sheila on our Treatments and About Us pages.
Below is a case study that gives a patient experience of receiving craniosacral therapy.
Case Study:
Jane is a 40 year old professional, married with three children. She came to see Sheila following a recommendation from a friend. Jane wasn’t sleeping well, and was working through some difficult relationship issues. While the relationship issues were an obvious cause for the sleeplessness, addressing these issues did not seem to be helping her sleep.
Over a period of six months Jane saw Sheila every few weeks for a one hour session. During the treatment she could literally feel the tension in her body melting away, and afterwards she always felt great. Day to day she was much calmer, more relaxed and happy. However the sleep issues didn’t change. Jane was also seeing a counsellor at this time, who was helping to address her relationship issues. However the counselling sessions were also not addressing the biggest disturbance to her everyday life, the sleepnessness.
After about six months things finally came together. Jane remembered a significant emotional event in her early childhood which was eluded to by her counsellor but that she couldn’t make sense of. She was able to relate the memories and emotions of the past childhood event with similarites to her current relationship issues. She realised her current sleeplessness was due to these disturbed emotions, and through this understanding was finally able to return to her normal pattern of sleeping well every night.
Jane explained later that the craniosacral therapy not only helped her feel better in herself during a difficult time in her life, but also helped old feelings she had been holding on to for so long and couldn’t understand as a child, to come to the surface and be understood as an adult. She could then make sense of them, and find peace in her current relationship and everyday life.
