What is Transpersonal Psychotherapy?

Also referred to as spiritual psychotherapy, this holistic, Eastern-influenced approach to therapy considers the mind-body connection in the therapeutic process and treats the whole person by addressing the client's mental, physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual needs in order to promote deeper and sustained healing.

In my work with clients, I treat the whole person by using a blend of somatic trauma therapy, breathwork, shamanic journeying and guided imagery, inner child healing, mindfulness and compassion, and meditation. In addition to the somatic trauma treatment models called the Comprehensive Resource Model® (CRM) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), I also am IFS-informed and use Internal Family Systems with clients. In my work with couples, I use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).

At its inception, transpersonal psychotherapy focused on altered states of consciousness, states that were largely achieved through the use of psychedelics such as psilocybin. In the future once I'm licensed as an LMFT, my goal is to become Certified in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research by the California Institute of Integral Studies, as I wholeheartedly believe in the power of psychedelics combined with psychotherapy to help heal society's countless mind-body dis-eases.

What is Somatic Psychotherapy?

"Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you."

- Dr. Gabor Maté

"Soma" is a term derived from Greek, meaning "body." Similarly, the Greek-originated word "trauma" means "wound" or "injury."

Somatic therapy emphasizes the connection between emotional experiences and physical sensations, recognizing that our bodies hold and express emotional and psychological states. It focuses on body awareness by helping you become more aware of your bodily sensations, tensions, and movements. This awareness can provide insights into emotional and psychological issues. Somatic psychotherapy is frequently used to address trauma. It can help release and process trauma that's stored in the body, which is not accessible through talk therapy alone. In my work with clients, I help them process and resolve their trauma with somatic approaches like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Comprehensive Resource Model® (CRM), and somatic experiencing.

One of my Treatment Approaches:

Comprehensive Resource Model®

With clients, I often use the trauma treatment model called CRM®. This transpersonal and holistic trauma treatment model is a deeply somatic and subconscious intervention that can be described as inner child healing. It addresses early childhood attachment disruptions and creates secure attachments with your wounded child part.

CRM® shares aspects of other trauma modalities, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), brainspotting, and hypnotherapy.

The goal in CRM® is for us to heal our relationship with Self and remember who we are (our true spiritual essence and our Core Self, our Highest Self, our authentic, empowered, and compassionate Self).

During and after processing with CRM®, your brain creates and integrates new neural pathways of secure attachment. The process trains your nervous system that there’s another way to be: rest, repair, and repose instead of survival mode (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn).

The reason this model is in many ways superior to other trauma models is because of the extensive internal somatic resourcing of clients, who are then able to process their trauma in a safe container.

CRM® allows clients to fully feel their feelings and finally process, resolve, and finish these childhood feelings and unresolved trauma.

For a more in depth explanation of how CRM® works, please visit the official website.