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 that, it becomes clear that the avoidance is organized around the vulnerability of the unknown and a lack of trust in his own intuition and skill. An unfinished situation with his previous career also begins to reveal itself, shaping how he meets this moment.
In the second half of the session, we do a two-chair between avoidance and the seat of power, supporting him to come into contact with the part of himself that can trust what’s emerging in him.
The full demo is available on Patreon, where you can experience the session in its entirety.
About Harmony Kwiker
Harmony Kwiker, MA, LPC, NCC, ACS is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and founder of The Awakened Therapist approach. She serves as lead Gestalt faculty at Naropa University, where she teaches within the Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling program.
Her work integrates Gestalt therapy, somatic intelligence, interpersonal neurobiology, and subtle energy awareness within a transpersonal framework. She is the author of The Awakened Therapist, Holistic Co-Regulation, Reveal, and Align, and is devoted to supporting therapists in deepening their presence, trust, and capacity to work with the full complexity of human experience.
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