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Holistic Psychotherapy As I Practise
It
Holistic psychotherapy is a powerful
healing art.
It derives
its power from the transpersonal psychologies and from
psychospiritual approaches to wellness such as yoga and Zen
Buddhism. Holistic, alternatively "wholistic," psychotherapy
therefore is a dynamic melding of the most enlightened
psychologies of the West with the greatest wisdom traditions
of the East.
HOLISTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY
AND SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING
This mode of therapy
concerns itself with personal transformation, spiritual
awakening and self-actualization.
It
will increase your field of awareness both of self and other,
an awareness that will be characterized by gentleness,
compassion and non-judgment.
Your
holistic psychotherapist will support you in coming to purpose
and in finding meaning in the story of your life. You will
suffer less as a result of this form of treatment, for
example, less anxiety and a lifting of
depression.
HIGHER STATES
OF SELF-INTEGRATION
And beyond this,
holistic psychotherapy will lead a true seeker towards higher
states of self-integration and an unprecedented sense of
wholeness.
Yet it refuses to treat
symptoms alone. Instead this form of therapy takes its
principal aim at the causes of those symptoms. In so doing,
the holistic practitioner looks at the whole person picture -
you as mental, physical, emotional and spiritual
being.
HOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY PROMOTES
HEALING THAT LASTS
In seeking cause
and in whole person treatments, holistic psychotherapy
produces healing that lasts.
Holism
incorporates the belief that the whole can be greater than the
sum of its parts. You may, after a time with this approach,
wonder at your accomplishments, feeling grateful that you
attained them yet awestruck about how you got there.
IN WAYS
UNFORESEEN
A holistic
psychotherapist believes therefore that when you seek help, it
can come from unexpected quarters; that the mere act of asking
for help will engage the healing forces in the universe and
promote that healing in ways unforeseen both by you and your
therapist.
In the end, this approach
will help you place your own personal suffering into a larger,
oftentimes political context, thereby revealing its societal,
even its global,
underpinnings.
Guiding Principles
I believe
that:
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What
remains unconscious maintains the power to sabotage, control
and bedevil
us.
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Every
hurtful act is a cry for help and healing (Marianne
Williamson, 1992).
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The work we do
together will be as good as the relationship that grows up
between
us.
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