Traditional counseling approaches separate a client’s psychological health from their spirituality. Integrating spirituality into therapeutic practices allows us to honor a clients’ innate wisdom and higher consciousness, as well as our own. This fosters a more organic and natural healing process, where therapists listen to and defer to clients’ innate wisdom rather than imposing external frameworks. In this episode, Harmony talks about the role of subtle energy in accessing spirituality in the therapy room, as well as the importance of understanding clients’ meaning-making and supporting them in differentiating from their thought-based reality. She discusses how this allows us to create a therapeutic container for higher spiritual development, allowing clients to reconnect with their innate wisdom and spirituality.
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Disclaimer: The episode you’re about to hear is intended for educational purposes only and this content should not be taken as supervision or clinical advice. Because each person is so unique, please consult your supervisor before attempting to apply any intervention from a theory you are not explicitly trained in.
Harmony Kwiker (kw-eye-ker), MA, LPC, NCC, ACS, is a psychotherapist, author, and visiting instructor at Naropa University where she teaches mindfulness-based transpersonal counseling. She is the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment where she offers ongoing learning opportunities for therapists who are committed to awakening. Her first book, Reveal: Embody the True Self Beyond Trauma and Conditioning, is a vulnerable self-help memoir, and her second book, Align: Living and Loving from the True Self , and her third book, The Awakened Therapist: Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy, is a text book.