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Unlock Your Potential with Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP)

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A Therapy Unlike Any Other – Gentle, Structured, Profound

If you're thinking:
“I've never heard of PBSP before...”
You're not alone.

The Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) is a body-based, emotionally focused psychotherapy that is new to Australia but has been quietly transforming lives across Europe and the United States for decades.

Created in the 1960s by American movement teachers Albert Pesso and Diane Boyden, PBSP emerged from their work helping dancers express themselves more freely. What began as an exploration of blocked movement evolved into a powerful system for emotional healing—blending body awareness, neuroscience, and psychotherapeutic insight into a method that helps people finally feel what was missing in their early development.

What Makes PBSP So Different?

PBSP Pesso Boyden System Psychotherapy

Where traditional talk therapy helps us understand our past, PBSP goes a step further—it offers the body and nervous system a symbolic, corrective emotional experience that allows for deep healing.

In a PBSP session (called a structure), the therapist works with the client to revisit early unmet developmental needs—such as the need for Place & belonging, protection, support, nurture, and loving limits. Then, facilitated by the therapist, group members (called accommodators), these needs are met symbolically through carefully guided role-play.

The goal isn’t to deny or rewrite your actual history. It’s to create a new, supplementary internal memory—a kind of emotional “update” that your body recognises as real and healing.

✨ An Invitation to Something Deeper

If you’ve felt the pull toward something more — this may be it.

Many people arrive here after years of inner work, therapy, or simply carrying their story quietly. Something still feels unfinished — a part of them waiting to be seen, met, and held with care. PBSP offers a space where that can begin.

This isn’t about fixing or forcing. It’s about gently returning to what was missing, and offering the body, mind, and heart an experience of safety, connection, and emotional nourishment — often for the first time.

You're welcome to begin in whatever way feels right for you. Many choose to join as an accommodator first — witnessing and softly participating in the process, without pressure to share their own story. Just your presence is enough.

Come as you are. We’ll meet you there.

For Therapists & Helping Professionals

PBSP offers a missing link for many seasoned practitioners: a precise, body-informed, neurologically sensitive way of working with developmental trauma and attachment wounds.

It blends:

  • Psychodynamic insight

  • Attachment theory

  • Somatic and sensory awareness

  • Polyvagal principles

  • Archetypal imagery and symbolic logic

As one experienced therapist said,

“It’s neuroscience meets soul.”

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, has praised PBSP as “the most effective method I’ve experienced for healing trauma.”

Why Try PBSP?

People often come to PBSP when they feel:

  • Emotionally stuck, despite years of self-development

  • Disconnected or numb, but unsure why

  • Tired of reliving trauma without feeling resolution

  • Curious about how emotions live in the body

  • Ready to address attachment injuries

  • Longing for a deeper, embodied sense of connection

And people stay because they:

  • Feel safe, seen, and supported

  • Experience true emotional shifts

  • Become more connected to their bodies and others

  • Discover an internal world that feels whole, calm, and alive

This is your opportunity to experience Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) therapy in a way that feels right for you — and for a limited time only, we’re offering special pricing to make this powerful work more accessible.

🔹 Structure Participant – Just $50

(Normally $150)
Step into your own fully guided PBSP session — a safely held space to gently explore what’s been missing, supported by a trained facilitator and a compassionate group.
Experience meaningful emotional repair, insight, and release — all at a fraction of the usual cost.
✨ Limited-time offer for those ready to go deeper.

🔹 Accommodator – FREE

(Normally $50)
Not quite ready for your own session? Join us as an accommodator — completely free for a short time. You'll participate by supporting others through gentle, symbolic role play guided by the facilitator.
This is a no-pressure, powerful way to witness PBSP in action — and many find it surprisingly moving and insightful.
✨ An ideal first step if you're curious but cautious.

📍 Location: Gympie, Queensland
🕘 Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm
📅 Upcoming Dates:
Jan 10 | Mar 14 | May 9 | Jul 11 | Sep 12 | Nov 14

👉 Ready to take the next step?

🔸 I want to receive a structure ($50)

🔸 I'd like to join as an accommodator (FREE)

🌟 Your Invitation

  • Traditional psychoanalysis often focuses on recognising and grieving deficits. In contrast, PBSP aims to fulfil those deficits through role-playing, allowing clients to experience the satisfaction of unmet needs and create new memories.

  • PBSP was developed by Al Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso, who were dance instructors. They discovered the connection between body movements and emotions, leading to the development of PBSP as a therapeutic approach.

  • PBSP can help improve emotional and mental health by addressing and healing the impact of traumatic memories. It promotes the creation of new, healthy memories and supports overall psychological development.

  • PBSP is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the connection between the body and mind. It helps individuals create new, healthy memories to replace the negative impact of traumatic experiences.

  • PBSP practitioners use various techniques to revive painful memories and then create new, positive scenes through role play. This process helps alleviate the emotional power of old memories and addresses basic psychological developmental needs.

  • Yes, PBSP is supported by research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. It combines attachment repair techniques with the latest findings in neuroscience to provide effective therapeutic outcomes.

  • Anyone who has experienced trauma or developmental deficits can benefit from PBSP.

    PBSP is very deep work and it is suitable for individuals seeking to improve their emotional and mental well-being.

Frequently asked questions:

  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5EryjP4ZvBuo4BaojZX9w

  • ·        Bessel van der Kolk begins to discuss the Pesso Boyden System of Psychomotor (PBSP) in his book "The Body Keeps the Score" on page 237 This section delves into the therapeutic approach and its significance in trauma recovery.

  • https://pbsp.com/?s=transcript

    • In her book, ‘Secrets, Lies, & Betrayals: The Body/Mind Connection,’ Maggie Scarf devotes three chapters to PBSP characterizing it as ‘one of the most remarkably compelling of the alternative (power) therapies.’

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Join Our Personal Development Group now!

We invite you to take the next step in your personal growth journey by joining our PBSP group. Our sessions provide a safe and nurturing space where you can explore your inner world, connect with others, and unlock your full potential.

If you’re ready to embark on this transformative experience or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Contact us today by clicking the RSVP link below, to learn more about our upcoming sessions and how PBSP can benefit you!

PBSP Groups in Gympie

  • Intravision Gympie

    8am -12 pm every second Friday of every second month.

    January 10th

    March 14th

    May 9th

    July 11th

    September 12th

    November 14th

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  • PBSP Personal Development Group

    Group PBSP Personal Development

    Contact us to join the waitlist

    Waitlist