Georgeanna Lewis

I see psychological healing, personal maturation, and spiritual growth as lying along the same continuum. From this perspective, softening our defensive organization has the potential to reveal something true and timeless.

Traditional psychotherapy usually assumes we are the self, an edifice consisting of protective layer upon layer of defensive accretions, when our true nature is in fact a primordial creative aliveness. PSIP has allowed me to process much of the embodied ‘stuck’ energy of my mis-identification with this edifice; to dismantle unconscious structures (created to cope with the traumatic misattunements of my early life) that protected me from seeing, believing in, and being who I truly am; and to bring forth a renewed creativity that I thought I had lost.

I feel a sense of mission about training others to do this sacred work.

My clinical foundation is in developmental theory, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and attachment. I have found my foundation in attachment-based somatic work invaluable in preparing clients to work with medicine. Conversely, my experience using PSIP has deepened my understanding of the way unconscious material manifests in our bodies before it shows up in our lives as re-enactments and projections— the soul’s attempt at healing. It has also transformed my non-PSIP work.

I bring experience and training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology, EMDR, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and the Adult Attachment Interview. I have also completed graduate work in English and Creative Writing (Poetry). I am a student of the Diamond Approach.

I am based in Minneapolis, where I co-own Springbox Therapy, a group practice, with my husband, therapist Sean Toren.