Functional Analysis (FA) is a PACFA certified body-oriented psychotherapy that uses both touch and words to contact your center, the place where all our emotions, thoughts, movements, and dreams flow together and from which all our life experiences spring from.

It is the meeting place of psyche and soma. The body and mind always work together, in both health and illness.

Rather than seeing symptoms as problems to fix, it explores how a person’s body, posture, breathing, movement, and speech reveal their way of being in the world. Therapy supports greater vitality, emotional expression, and self-understanding through both gentle touch and reflective dialogue.

Adam with Will at his home in France

Will Davis, Founder

Will developed Functional Analysis Body Psychotherapy based on an understanding of the functioning of the life force. His interest is in the functional approach to therapy, which he interprets as the meeting place between Reich’s energy concepts and recent research in biology and physics, with a focus on the energetic qualities of connective tissue.

He is considered one of the major researchers in the field of body psychotherapy, specifically for his work on the role of connective tissues in psychotherapy.

He developed the gentle release technique of Points & Positions and combines that with a unique synthesis of verbal therapy that uses Person-centred, Gestalt, and Focusing techniques.

When using this modality, it is possible to work safely with trauma patients by going below the level of thoughts and emotions, below the defenses and even below the trauma itself, thereby contacting the undamaged core of a person where the patient can “heal” and reorganise themselves.

You can visit Will’s website here to learn more about his work.