Soulistic Shamanism and Psychotherapy
Our mission is to offer
- A spiritual therapeutic approach which is creative, supportive, has depth and enables growth.
- An approach grounded in academic literature.
- An approach which enables you to overcome difficulties, to grow, to connect with yourself, your guides, other people and the divine; enabling your energy to flow unhindered, as you flow with your life.
- To build a shamanic community
What is Soulistic Shamanism and Psychotherapy?
Soulistic Shamanism and Psychotherapy is an integration of traditional healing methods and modern-day psychotherapy. Having trained in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, EMDR and Shamanism. I was fascinated with how I could integrate psychotherapy and shamanic healing, to develop a holistic/ soulistic approach.
To integrate shamanism and psychotherapy I developed an approach grounded in academic literature, research, twenty five plus years of therapeutic experience, and time spent with shamans in Peru, Siberia, Columbia and Ecuador.
The approach is a way to understand problems from both a shamanic and psychotherapeutic perspective, including where they come from, and then identify the most appropriate intervention.
It is my belief that we are made up of energetic bodies, energetic vibrations, the densest being the physical body and the soul incarnates into this dense energetic body. These energetic bodies hold energy / experiences from past lives, ancestors, conception, birth, as well as childhood and life events.
I believe there is a natural flow between the soul and the physical body which may become blocked; causing a multitude of problems, therefore, healing and growth is perceived as enabling energy to flow, enabling deep connection with self, other and the divine.
My Approach
My approach incorporates the energetic vibrations (energetic bodies) around the physical body and how experiences impact on a person’s energy.
These experiences include past lives, ancestral energy, pre-birth and birth, as well as childhood and life events. All of which live in our energy, and can cause a disconnection with ourselves, with our guides and/ or cause a loss of energy/ soul. All of which feeds into our perception of ourselves, the world, and other people.
The energetic bodies include the densest energetic body, the physical body, followed by the emotional energetic body, the energy body and then the mental energetic body. Usually one is often more dominant than the other ones.
You can identify your dominant energetic body through identifying if you are more head based, more emotionally based, or your focus is on the physical body.
The approach can be used to help you identify relevant interventions, both shamanic and psychotherapeutic
What were your past lives and how do they feed into your life today? What ancestral wounds came through when the energy of your parents merged to create you? When your mother was pregnant the energy around her would impact on her energy and as such your energy, the birth process itself has an energy which also impacts on you.
And then there is life, the life you have led since you were born. The messages you have picked up, the habits you have formed, all impact on your energy.
The good news is there are interventions to help you work through some of these issues. The interventions may include soul retrieval, past life healing or learning, power release and retrieval.
As you become more aware of your relational style, consider how easy it is for you to connect with another person? Is this learned or is it related to a past life?
It can be difficult to connect if you have never connected with another person at a deep level. By conducting shamanic journeying and connecting with your guides, it can help you learn to connect at a deeper level.
Meditation, dream diaries, art and singing can also be used to help you to understand your unconscious processes and develop a clearer perception of ourself, leading to self- acceptance, self- love and a flow between our energetic bodies. All of which is healing.
How can Soulistic Shamanism and Psychotherapy help you?
My approach offers a unique healing process for both the soul and the self.
Your energy and experience will guide our treatment plan, identifying the most appropriate interventions for you. Interventions from both shamanism and psychotherapy to help you address your issues, to become more grounded in you, a connected being, who is supported to overcome difficulties and connect with your energetic life flow.
I work from an experiential perspective, creatively developing unique treatment plans based on my theory and who you uniquely are.