Therapy for Wiccan, Pagan & Spiritual Practitioners
Spiritually Affirming Therapy
Spiritually Affirming Therapy
Whether you are a Witch, a Wiccan, a Pagan, follow New Age Practices, or Cultural & Traditional Beliefs, or are generally interested in Spirituality, you deserve affirming compassionate care.
You may find yourself here because you are a pagan, wiccan, witch or a spiritual practioner searching for a therapist who understands and affirms your experience, and does not take your beliefs, practices, rituals and religion as a symptom that needs to be treated.
Maybe you have encountered misunderstanding, discomfort, or stigma when sharing your practices in therapy in the past, or are tired of dancing around your beliefs out of fear of being seen a certain way or misunderstood.
You may have felt uncomfortable discussing your religious and spiritual beliefs with your therapist, found that it did not lead to any meaningful incorporation of your beliefs and practices in session, or have not experienced respect towards your spiritual and religious identity.
In spiritually affirming therapy, I invite you into a holistic and creative space that is supportive, non-stigmatizing, integrative and respectful of your beliefs and practices towards total embodied healing by incoporating your traditional, cultural and spiritual practices and individual methods of healing.
Such practices can include:
Dreamwork
Somatic Excavation
Astrology
Tarot
Crystal Healing
Meditation & Sound Healing
Herbology & Candle Work
Nature-Based & Folk
Creation and Energy Work
Traditional & Cultural Based
What does Spiritual Affirming Therapy Look like?
While working on many of the other things that may be bringing you to therapy, we will work towards achieving a spiritually enriched, embodied life you love. Be it an atheist or agnostic interested in general spiritual practices, New Age, Pagan, Wiccan, or Witchcraft-based paths, Buddhism, or Taoist practices, I will work with you to explore the sacred connection of your mind, body, heart, and spirit.
In our work together I will invite you to embrace and encourage the expression of your whole self in all aspects of your daily life. Through the foundation of Integrated Creative Art Therapy, we will work together to bring in creativity, compassion, curiosity, wonder, and work within the four areas of self to bring connection to our mind, body, heart, and soul. We will work with your spiritual practice in mind to bring all areas of self into harmony, through creativity, creation, mindfulness, and body awareness to promote deep embodied healing.
Body
We work to cultivate body awareness which involves respecting our senses, sensations, and our breath. Through body awareness, we can begin to recognize the important feedback and information the body gives. We work to dialogue with our Embodied Cognition, which is the belief that the body has its own form of cognition, its own way of understanding, knowing, and experiencing.
Throughout the therapeutic process and creativity, our bodies give input in how this arouses emotion, memories, sensations, and actions within the body. We use this information to recognize patterns, feelings, and actions that we take in response to our environment, and lived experience.
In acknowledging that we are informed by the body in these ways, we then can give our bodies the time and space to express themselves. We work to tune into this feedback through our five senses, our heart space, and breathwork to cultivate communication between mind, body, heart, and soul.
We cultivate respect for our bodies' needs, such as relaxation, movement, ease, or hunger by turning inwards and developing skills to respond and meet the body's needs.
Mind
The mind is the cognitive thinking part of creativity. We acknowledge the mind's capacity to marvel and ask big questions about big things. We work to incorporate mindfulness into daily life.
Encourages curiosity, wonder, contemplation, and self-reflection.
Self Reflection is the ability to inquire and come to terms with the feedback that you gather from the world in relation to yourself through the past, present, and future experiences, heritages, and perspectives of the world.
Supports the neuroplasticity of the mind as the capacity to be reshaped, and refined through specific exercises, constructing different ways of thinking, and strengthening kinder inner self-dialogue.
Heart
Throughout the therapeutic process, we are learning to communicate with the inner emotional world. We often describe feelings as coming from or living within the heart. Similar to body awareness, we work to develop heart awareness. We acknowledge that the heart gives feedback through emotions that are equally as important as the body and mind.
Through acknowledging the heart space and the emotional world we work to cultivate authenticity and connection to others and ourselves.
This connection can be referred to as Heartset. Heartset is our relationship to our emotional world and its space within ourselves. In tuning into our heartset we can begin to dialogue with our feelings and grow awareness of our emotional responses.
Heartset involves being aware of our core values, making choices aligned with those values, and pursuing a life informed by the authentic self’s desires. We combine emotional intelligence and body intelligence, with cognitive intelligence to create purposeful and aligned action.
Soul
Soul is acknowledging the inner knowing that we all contain through self-reflection, imagination, the collective unconscious, creativity, and personal symbols.
It is a reflection of the personal investigation and deeper work of self.
By contemplating life through imagination and creativity, we encounter and work with the symbols, archetypes, metaphors, rituals, and ceremonies that ground the creative aspect of the human experience.
