Claire Attridge

I am a craniosacral therapist working with adults, children and babies in Bristol.

Craniosacral therapy is a subtle and profound way of working with the body to assist the body’s natural capacity for self repair. In craniosacral therapy there is an understanding that health expresses itself through the craniosacral motion. It is the free flowing health of this motion, expressed through the fluids and tissues of the body, that is essential to our wellbeing. Stress, injury, illness, shock and trauma can all get held in the body and the craniosacral motion can become unbalanced and restricted which may lead to physical, mental and emotional problems. By using a gentle non invasive touch to work with the Craniosacral motion, compressive patterns held in the body are worked with to facilitate a release. 

Integrative Baby Therapy - working with Babies and Children 

As well as using my cranial skills, I also have a post grad training in the field of pre and perinatal education and I am qualified as an Integrative Baby Therapy Practitioner. This work is about our earliest experiences and how they can affect us. This training supports my work as a Craniosacral therapist and allows me to help clients of all ages explore their embodied experience and how it affects their health and wellbeing. 

The Baby Therapy training allows me to work with babies in a deeper way. This means paying attention to ‘baby body language‘, vocal expressions and crying and the non-random repetitive movements that directly relate to specific parts of the baby’s birth journey. By working in this empathic way with their experience, babies can release shock and trauma in a way they couldn't at the time they occurred. This can allow a deep healing of any trauma your baby may have and can really help you get to know your baby better.

Older children

Craniosacral therapy can be very beneficial for older children. There may be trauma or other health concerns and conditions effecting their well-being.