- Julia M.

Deep Feeling/Primal Therapy was the best thing that happened to me in 40 years of my life.
I resolved many issues that have been bothering me. It was so painful; I didn’t want to see the truth. Primal helped me to find what’s real and grow.
I tried numerous self-help methods and have been in talk therapy for years. It didn’t help me. Deep feeling work made a whole difference in the world. I can breathe now, I can feel, I can enjoy every day of my life – good or bad. I am a different person.

- Linda A.

I have found Esta Powell to be a very effective primal therapist.
She is very knowledgeable and she has the background to bring a variety of approaches to the client if such is warranted. She is an unusually good listener and observer. She observes and listens very carefully to what the client has to say. She is also very kind, considerate, and accepting toward the client.

- Andrew C.
 

Esta is a well-trained therapist, artful with her technique. In my opinion she reflects a caring and seasoned intuition for what works.

- Raymond M.

Esta is the perfect therapist for anyone who is serious about healing their past pain and becoming well. She has had training and experience working in various modalities, both in Europe and in the U.S. She has herself undergone intensive deep feeling therapy with some of the best therapists in North America. In addition, she loves doing emotional facilitation work and being around people involved in deep-feeling work in some way or other. As soon as you meet her it becomes obvious that Deep Feeling/Primal Therapy is not just a job to her, but an avocation, a passion. This makes her a very motivated and enthusiastic facilitator, who is as committed to your healing as you are; a very sharp and fully attentive listener who immediately senses where you are at or where you are heading, and a quick and very accurate analyzer of your  process. At the same time her compassionate nature makes her very understanding, supportive and nurturing. She would be my first choice as a therapist in the area to assist me on my way to recovering from emotional scars.  

- C.L.

Esta has a very sharp sense for listening and hearing where deep inner blocks lay hidden beneath the surface.  She can carve through confusion and defenses to find hidden traumas and memories.

- Anonymous

As a therapist, I would describe Esta as having a true empathic sensibility, attunement, and a calm, grounded, nurturing presence. She was able to help me feel safe enough to go into extremely vulnerable feelings by assuring me that there was enough time and that she was really there for me, in both verbal and non-verbal ways. My feelings of trust are also grounded in having witnessed her own primal work and knowing how committed she is to the practice of primal integration work. From working with Esta, I gained a new imprint of having early needs met in a generous and loving way.

- Karuna O'Donnell

Testimonials from PSYCHODRAMA Groups

My experience using psychodrama and primal is like a sequence of doors (rather than one) to access old traumas. Any door opened is a distinct path leading to that pain which is waiting to be released.

The warm-up exercises, observations of and participation in others’ experiences plus my  personal motivation to become more healthy, helped accelerate my experience of deep inner healing.

I look forward to the next workshop.

- Ron S., Cleveland, Ohio

I attended Esta’s Psychodrama weekend workshop and it was really great! We each got to do at least one scene and it was intense and emotional and healing. By ‘doing a scene’ I mean that we picked a scene from either present life, a dream, a childhood memory or whatever to work on (most were childhood scenes). Then we picked people from the group to play the other people in the scene (including ourselves). Then we acted it out.  

It was emotional for everyone involved in the scene – not just the one whose scene it was. The whole thing was really cool, and a lot of healing took place.   

- JJ, Centreville, Virginia

Unlike traditional talk therapy groups, the psychodrama workshop really brought alive the people and places in my past that caused me pain. It helped me to not only replay things as they were, but as they could and should have been. This allowed me to get in touch with parts of myself unknown to me before but very crucial to healing, like a bratty, happy, mischievous five-year old princess who feels entitled.

Psychodrama is clearly a very useful adjunct and catalyst to any therapy.

- Christiane L., Columbus, Ohio

I have been involved with Primal therapy as a growth tool for over 30 years. Esta is one of the most effective feelings facilitators I have ever met. She doesn't push, she encourages...

"Clearing the Past...Creating the Future" is not just a motto for her, she lives the process and helps as a good friend.

- Ken R., Rochester, NY