The Awakened Therapist Podcast
with Harmony KwikerExploring a Holistic and Transpersonal
Approach to Psychotherapy
S4E12: The Soul Work of Therapy | Harmony Kwiker
In this episode, Harmony speaks to the deeper orientation that shapes transpersonal counseling. This is an exploration of the therapeutic field, the way suffering is met, the way presence is held, and the conditions that allow healing to emerge as clients return to...
S4E11: Therapy Session #6 | Discovering the Intelligence of Rumination
In this episode, Harmony shares the final session with the demo volunteer followed throughout this season. A pattern comes forward that has been organizing the client’s experience: rumination. He describes the way his mind returns to past moments where he felt...
S4E10: How to Heal Your Attachment System | Harmony Kwiker and Christopher Arnold
In this very personal episode, Harmony Kwiker is joined by her husband, Christopher Arnold, for a conversation that weaves lived experience with the core principles of attachment theory and relational healing. While the conversation is grounded in their relationship,...
S4E9: Therapy Session #5 | Working at the Threshold of Becoming
In this episode, I’m sharing another session with the same client we’ve been following this season. He is at a threshold, stepping into a new career as a bodyworker. And as we begin, we start tracking the way he avoids turning toward what’s ahead. As we stay with...
S4E8: Restoring Humanity in Prisons with Authentic Relating | Laurie Lazar
In this episode, I’m joined by Laurie Lazar, founder of the Realness Project, a nonprofit bringing authentic relating practices into prisons. Laurie shares what she discovered when she stepped inside these systems—places where therapy is nearly nonexistent, and where...
S4E7: Therapy Session #4 | Working with Introjects in Gestalt Therapy
In this fourth session of the ongoing demo series, you continue to hear the unfolding process with the same volunteer as deeper patterns come into awareness and are worked with in real time. Early in the session, we track a subtle but powerful moment: the way he...
S4E6: Financial Health, Burnout, and Secondary Income Streams | Khara Croswaite Brindle, LPC
Therapists are trained to hold space, track nervous systems, and metabolize complex emotional fields. We are rarely trained to build sustainable businesses. In this episode of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, I sit down with Khara Croswaite Brindle to explore financial...
S4E5: Therapy Session #3: Facilitating the Deeper Work of Integration
The full demo is streaming for free on Patreon for one week. In this third session of our ongoing therapy series, we begin to track a clear polarity has emerged in his system. On one side, he becomes hyper-focused on his body. Tracking symptoms. Monitoring sensations....
S4E4: Consciousness in Psychotherapy | Harmony Kwiker
In this episode, I speak to something foundational in the Season 4 demo series, why we must shift states before we attempt to create change. When a client is fused with thought based reality and identified with urgency, story, or distress, no intervention will land...