In this episode, I offer live case consultation to a newer transpersonal counselor navigating the complexity of depth work.
We begin by exploring an essential principle of this approach: before moving into integration or intervention, we must support a shift in levels of awareness. When a client is fused with their narrative, their trauma, or their survival pattern, deeper work cannot land. Awareness precedes transformation.
We also clarify an important misconception — clients do not need to identify as spiritual or “transpersonal” for this work to be effective. Transpersonal counseling is not about belief systems. It is about expanding awareness, restoring contact, and supporting clients in reconnecting with their essential self and sovereign will.
From there, we consult on two cases:
• A client who feels deeply victimized within her family system, in part due to unresolved trauma. We explore how to validate real pain without reinforcing an identity organized around powerlessness — and how to orient toward sovereignty without bypassing the wound.
• A client who feels chronically stuck in indecision. We look at how ambivalence often protects something deeper, and how increasing awareness allows movement to arise organically rather than through force.
Throughout the conversation, we return to the heart of this work: clear seeing, attuned presence, and the therapist’s capacity to hold the sacred boundary where change emerges from the client — not from us.
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About Harmony Kwiker, MA, LPC, ACS
Harmony Kwiker is a psychotherapist, author, and Lead Gestalt Faculty at Naropa University’s Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling program. She is the founder of The Awakened Therapist Approach, an integrative framework that weaves together Gestalt therapy, somatic intelligence, nervous system regulation, subtle-energy attunement, and spiritual alignment.
Harmony is the author of The Awakened Therapist, Holistic Co-Regulation, Reveal, and Align, and she trains therapists internationally in relational, transpersonal, and sovereignty-centered psychotherapy.
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Transformation begins with awareness.
And awareness begins with presence.