About Focusing
What Is Focusing?
Focusing is a body-oriented process of awareness and compassionate relating that facilitates deep healing, self-discovery and authentic growth.
Focusing is a therapeutic and healing method, a tool for decision making, a pathway for unlocking creativity competence and meaning in life. It helps you move forward from stuck places by enabling you to live from a deeper place beyond surface-level thoughts and feelings, bringing you closer to your authentic self.
Through the practice of Focusing, you can connect with your deeper knowing by engaging your body’s subtle capacity for “felt sensing.” This process allows you to access and trust your ‘inner compass’, guiding you through life’s complexities toward wholeness and authenticity.
While we often associate intelligence with the brain, logic, and analytical thinking, Focusing taps into a broader intelligence available through your “sensing body.” It helps you discern what feels truly “right” for you, integrating bodily awareness with your lived experiences and current context in a way that fosters meaningful change. Anyone can learn Focusing—it is a life skill that can profoundly enhance personal and professional growth.
Focusing originated from research into what makes psychotherapy successful. Over six decades of studies have confirmed its effectiveness in reducing stress, fostering resilience, and creating lasting change. One of the greatest strengths of Focusing is the ease with which it can be integrated with other relational therapeutic approaches. . Health care professionals can incorporate Focusing into their work to empower clients to achieve desired change in a context of safety and empathic relating.
Resources Related To Focusing
The International Focusing Institute
How Can Focusing Help Me?
Advances in cognitive neuroscience have deepened our understanding of how the brain works. The left hemisphere specialises in logic, language, numbers and patterns, while the right hemisphere processes the bigger picture, intuition, imagination, creativity and holistic awareness. Modern culture tends to prioritise left-brain functions, often at the expense of right-brain development, leading to imbalances in health, identity, and relationships.
Focusing restores this balance by integrating the brain’s functions, cultivating a strong sense of self, and connecting you to embodied wisdom about life’s challenges. Many people either overlook this inner knowing or haven’t yet learned how to access it. Focusing teaches you to connect with this fresh, moment-by-moment insight—your personal “inner compass.”
Focusing Can Be Used for:
Clarifying what you deeply feel and want
Finding calm and cultivating compassion for yourself and others
Relieving tension, stress, and chronic pain
Enhancing decision-making and problem-solving
Managing overwhelm and regulating emotional reactions
Overcoming feelings of being stuck
Addressing relational issues or health challenges
Navigating life transitions
Unlocking creativity and developing new ideas
Integrating mind, body, and spirit
Deepening spiritual awareness and connecting with your soul-centred self
Enhancing the effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapy
In essence, Focusing works with anything that matters to you enough to evoke a felt sense. Any life situation can serve as a starting point for this transformative process.
How Can I Learn Focusing?
Schedule A Focusing Session
If you are new to Focusing, it is the best to experience it first by scheduling the one-on-one session with Biliana, one of her students, or any other certified Focusing professional. You don’t have to know anything about it, and you will be gently guided through the process. That will give you a first-hand experience, and you can then decide about your way of moving forward with learning Focusing.
Inquire or make an appointment with Biliana
Take A Course
Focusing is best learned in group workshops facilitated by certified Focusing Trainer. You will first learn how to do the process for yourself and your own benefit (Part 1 workshop), and then you can continue learning how to support others in practising Focusing (Part 2 workshop). It you want to use it to complement what you are already doing while working with others, you can attend further workshops (for health and healing professionals or the Focusing Certification Program).
