WORK

Messwork is a somatic practice creating process-oriented interventions for clients. An alternative to traditional therapy, somatics emphasise bottom-up, body-oriented approaches to treat trauma and modify stress responses while supporting alignment, integration, fullness, and consciousness-raising. Designed and run by Cristina (Cri) Gabriele, Messwork emphasises healing as a process while reclaiming and utilising its inherent messiness as a tool.

Aligning with somatic practices as a transforming through process, Messwork collaborates with clients as living, breathing compositions, seeking to create, form, reform, and rearrange selves and parts into unified wholes, naturally rehabilitating the state of consciousness.

Trauma often fractures parts, leading to splits, binds, and disjointedness. Through the co-creative Messwork process, clients can reconstitute themselves by meeting their trauma and bringing awareness to patterns, defences, and relational dynamics. Reshaping (messily), as an ongoing practice, helps clear blocks, awareness, and the capacity to contain and feel while supporting a more grounded, robust, and energised existence.

Grounded in Core Energetics and Compassionate Inquiry, Messwork integrates diverse perspectives across the two modalities, including Bioenergetic Analysis, Parts Work, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt, focusing on Psychosomatic Unity, the movement toward creative evolution, and rehabilitation from within. 

At Messwork, we view each individual as a holistic entity. As such, we believe self-care is an ecosystem of complementary mechanisms. Messwork is its own psychosomatic practice that recognises and works in conjunction with pathological and more traditional therapeutic modalities.

All bold terms are highlighted in the glossary to support inquiry and exploration of the somatic process.