Psychospiritual Counseling

Psychospiritual psychotherapy recognizes that clients need healing from past experiences, but also acknowledges that there is a great potential for growth and development as we process the learning.

For example, painful experiences can soften the heart as we learn compassion for ourselves and others. Anger can evoke the fierceness of the warrior archetype needed for clarity of intention, expression of one’s truth, and protection of boundaries. One primary value of dealing with childhood trauma is recovering the natural spontaneity and creative power of the divine child, which become blocked in traumatic experiences.

The psychospiritually focused client is being guided toward greater awareness, responsibility and resources. This involves learning how to integrate the various forces that have been present all along, creating disturbances and symptoms because their presence, needs, and contributions must be acknowledged (Shadow Work). The process of becoming fully human requires transformation and integration. It means developing a compassionate attentiveness to somatic sensations, inner voices and feelings. How can we talk about creating peace and honoring diversity in the outer world if elements of our inner world are criticized and rejected?

A primary ethical standard I apply is that I do not apply what I have not experienced in my own training and life. I have been guiding others on their path to growth and healing for nearly 2 decades. 

My role in the planetary awakening isn’t to tell others what to do or to believe. My role is to help people develop enough energy, inner resources, resilience, capacity, skills, tools and spiritual insight to live in alignment with their own integrity, values and purpose.