Individual sessions
Integrative (body) psychotherapy (including integrative bodywork), core energetics, psychomotor therapy, bodymind integration, supervision.
Dirk Marivoet and his colleagues, offer several kinds of individual sessions:
- Integrative & body psychotherapy, core energetics, psychomotor therapy and holistic bodywork for people suffering from: post-traumatic stress complaints, psychosomatic complaints, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, etc…
- Professional guidance in life-crisis situations where one’s own strength seems insufficient: fears, burn-out, depression, compulsions, eating disorders, loneliness, relational problems, guilt feelings, mourning.
- Personalized support for those on the road to enhanced life quality: aimed at results and empathic contact with people, transforming personal blockages, dealing with resistance to change, assertiveness, bringing clear messages, say no, anger management, emotional intelligence, work-life balance, stress management, ambition, communication, social competence, a calling, independency, empowerment, personal development…
- Supervision for professional therapists: How to be effective, daring and explorative with knowledge, choosing adequate tools and applying techniques. Help for how to work from a place of empathy, compassion and love; with commitment, transparency and a willingness to take risks.
Sessions with Dirk Marivoet take place in Ghent, Belgium at the IBI center or online.
Sessions with other therapists from the IBI can take place in the rest of the world.
Integrative & body psychotherapy (including integrative bodywork) sessions
In the context of individual consultations, we start with an intake interview and an analysis of your situation. We guide you to a session with Dirk Marivoet or one of his colleagues according to your wish and locality.
In general, Dirk Marivoet works with a personality-oriented approach and in principle not with a symptom-oriented approach. Being trained in both classical psychotherapy and body-mind approaches, energy, movement, physicality and mindfulness/consciousness are generally part of the process.
A therapy is always individually tailored and all possibilities can be discussed with you in an intake interview.
What kind of problems and themes can be addressed with integrative and body oriented psychotherapy?
Tension and Stress — How They Live in the Body, and How We Can Transform Them
Stress lives in the body — in breath, fascia, and nervous system. Core Strokes™ helps you release chronic tension, restore flow, and return to a grounded, resilient state.
Depressed Feelings and Depression
Depression is not just a mood — it lives in breath, fascia, and bodymind. Core Strokes™ helps release frozen patterns, restore flow, and reconnect you with your inner aliveness.
Sexual Abuse and the Body — Pathways of Healing
Sexual abuse imprints the bodymind — in breath, fascia, and nervous system. Core Strokes™ and Pelvic-Heart Integration™ offer a path to reclaim safety, trust, and embodied wholeness.
Anger and Aggression — Understanding, Integrating, and Transforming These Powerful Forces
Anger is a life force — but when blocked or distorted, it shapes breath, fascia, and nervous system. Core Strokes™ helps restore embodied flow, healthy boundaries, and relational presence.
Anxiety Disorders in Adults
Chronic anxiety is held in breath, fascia, and nervous system. Core Strokes™ helps release fear imprints, restore flow, and rebuild a calm, grounded presence in life.
Post-Traumatic Stress — When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot Hold
Trauma lives in the body. Core Strokes™ helps you restore breath, soften fascia, and reclaim trust — so life can flow again beyond the grip of PTSD.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) — Understanding and Transforming Embodied Loops
OCD is more than a mental loop — it is an embodied cycle. Core Strokes™ helps you release fear imprints, restore breath flow, and rediscover grounded inner freedom.
Sleeping Problems— Restoring Rhythm, Breath, and Rest
"Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Thomas Dekker Why Sleep Matters Sleep is not passive — it is the body’s time of restoration, integration, and deep repair. When we sleep, the autonomic nervous system rebalances, fascia releases...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder — Restoring Rhythm, Presence, and Trust
Chronic anxiety lives in the body. Core Strokes™ helps you release embodied fear patterns, restore breath rhythm, and rebuild a resilient, calm presence in life.
Personality Patterns and the Bodymind — Understanding and Transforming Deep Adaptations
Beyond labels — personality adaptations reflect early survival. Core Strokes™ restores embodied flow, relational trust, and the deeper self beneath defense and patterning.
ADHD — Restoring Rhythm, Regulation, and Embodied Presence
 «Why fit in when you were born to stand out» --Dr Seuss “The child’s body remembers everything — the pull toward movement, the tension in stillness, the effort to contain or release energy that has nowhere safe to land.” What is ADHD? Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...
Eating Disorders — Reclaiming Embodiment, Breath, and Self
Eating disorders are not just about food — they are bodymind struggles for safety and control. Core Strokes™ supports healing through breath, fascia, and relational repair.
Grief — Restoring Breath, Flow, and the Capacity to Mourn
Grief speaks through body and breath. Core Strokes™ offers a pathway to move with sorrow, restore flow, and return to life with a softened heart and renewed resilience.
Psychosomatics -— When the Wounded Soul Speaks Through the Body
When the body carries what the mind cannot express, symptoms arise. Core Strokes™ restores breath, flow, and resilience — helping you listen, heal, and return to embodied life.
Sexual Functioning — Restoring Flow, Trust, and the Embrace of Life
Sexuality is the flow of life itself. Through Core Strokes™ and Pelvic-Heart Integration™, you can release blocks, restore breath, and rediscover joyful embodied intimacy.
Panic Disorders — Restoring Breath, Trust, and Autonomic Flow
Panic is not in your head — it’s a full-body storm. Through breath, fascia, and body-based healing, Core Strokes™ helps you release panic at its roots and reclaim calm presence.
Other problems and themes we can treat with integrative therapy and holistic bodywork
- Aggression control
- Assertiveness
- Attachment disorder
- Burnout / chronic fatigue
- Communication problems
- Concentration difficulties
- Difficulty of choice
- Difficulty with social contact
- Dissociative disorder
- Educational problems
- Embarrassment
- Fear of abandonment
- Fear of commitment
- Giftedness
- Impulse control
- Inner conflicts
- Low self esteem
- Life questions
- Meaning and questions of meaning
- Midlife crisis
- Not feeling well
- Numbness
- Perfectionism
- Process breakup
- Psychiatric problems
- Relationship problems
- Self-care
- Sexual abuse
- Spiritual questions
- Uncertainty
Modalities practiced
- Body-oriented PsychotherapyÂ
- Body-mind Integration (Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration®, Pelvic-Heart Integration®, …)
- Psychomotor Therapy (Functional, Experiential, Conflict-oriented).
- Holistic Bodywork
Who is Dirk Marivoet?
Dirk Marivoet is a European certified psychotherapist (ECP). He was trained in physiotherapy (MSc.) as well as psychomotor therapy at the University of Leuven. He was staff psychiatry for 11 years at the psychiatric centers of the University of Leuven. He then founded the Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI) in 1994. With over 35 years of experience he continues his life-long learning in how to integrate body, mind and spirit. He brings together his clinical and scientific knowledge from the fields of psychotherapy, psychomotor therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, psychiatry & shamanism.
A big thank you to Dirk! His work has allowed me to change important programs rooted in childhood, to breathe better, to live more in connection with my body, my deep feelings, and my emotions. Dirk can find the right words and touches by creating the confidence and security to release blocked energy in your physical and emotional body.
Sophie (France)
My deepest gratitude to Dirk as my trainer, supervisor, therapist for continuing inspiration, support, wisdom and heartfelt qualities. He really “ walks what he talks”: highly integrated competences and a wonderful human heart which can make space for everything.
Alaya Tessa
I endured a horrific traumatic incident back in 2017 and it was a blessing to work with Dirk. He helped me out of the trauma masterfully in a way that was harmonious and efficient, without much talking or drama engaging. I learned more about myself and my survival mechanisms and discovered new dimensions of my own being.
TM