What is Shamanic Counseling?
Shamanic Counseling is a practice that uses the shamanic journey—a form of guided imagery that helps access the subconscious mind —to help you discover insights, clarity, and healing directly from your own spiritual connection. Unlike traditional therapy, which often focuses on analyzing thoughts and emotions, shamanic counseling incorporates altered state of consciousness—in this case through visualization and guided journeying. In this state, you can connect with spiritual allies, such as power animals or spirit guides, who provide insight and support.
In my experience, this work is still effective whether you believe in the concept of "helping spirits" or prefer to believe these allies are simply parts of your own mind that you're accessing through symbols.
One of the key aspects of shamanic counseling is that you are empowered as your own healer. Rather than relying on an external person to interpret your experiences, you will learn how to journey, receive messages, and integrate these insights. From the shamanic perspective, emotional distress is not just a psychological issue but often a sign of spiritual imbalance or disconnection. By bridging the gap between the visible and invisible worlds, shamanic counseling offers a nonordinary path to healing—one that honors your intuition, personal symbols, and deep inner wisdom.
In my experience, this work is still effective whether you believe in the concept of "helping spirits" or prefer to believe these allies are simply parts of your own mind that you're accessing through symbols.
One of the key aspects of shamanic counseling is that you are empowered as your own healer. Rather than relying on an external person to interpret your experiences, you will learn how to journey, receive messages, and integrate these insights. From the shamanic perspective, emotional distress is not just a psychological issue but often a sign of spiritual imbalance or disconnection. By bridging the gap between the visible and invisible worlds, shamanic counseling offers a nonordinary path to healing—one that honors your intuition, personal symbols, and deep inner wisdom.
Who is this good for?
Are you energy sensitive, like a high performance instrument or vehicle? Can you feel/read/pick up on not only your own emotional vibrations, but others' as well? Do you like to work with the meridians, energy body, chakras, elements or any other energy-based wisdom tradition? Are you curious to explore healing outside the Western psychology box? Have you done years of therapy, bodywork, other healing modalities and still feel stuck?
If so, this energy-attuned form of therapy offers practical tools so you can attune to your own vibration without being so affected by the people (or places) around you. Over time, you can learn to emit stable, positive energy.
If so, this energy-attuned form of therapy offers practical tools so you can attune to your own vibration without being so affected by the people (or places) around you. Over time, you can learn to emit stable, positive energy.
What does it look like?
There are three sources of imbalance according to shamanic healing: soul loss, power loss and energetic interference. (For more details on trauma from a shamanic perspective, look here.) These three things manifest in all sorts of symptoms: anxiety, depression, rumination, toxic relationship patterns, addiction, health issues, hopelessness, shame and more.
In the first session or two, we will take your “emotional biography” (e.g., your life story) which helps me assess for areas of power loss, soul loss and energetic interference. After that, I will guide you through the first shamanic journey: a power retrieval. This lays the foundation for any other shamanic work we will do, which may include soul and power retrievals, extractions and cord releases.
Using a method that will prevent you from being re-traumatized, we will revisit significant life events and explore generational/ancestral influences. Some sessions will involved guided imagery, while others will focus on integrating what you've learned from the journey.
In the first session or two, we will take your “emotional biography” (e.g., your life story) which helps me assess for areas of power loss, soul loss and energetic interference. After that, I will guide you through the first shamanic journey: a power retrieval. This lays the foundation for any other shamanic work we will do, which may include soul and power retrievals, extractions and cord releases.
Using a method that will prevent you from being re-traumatized, we will revisit significant life events and explore generational/ancestral influences. Some sessions will involved guided imagery, while others will focus on integrating what you've learned from the journey.
Why work with me?
Over the past 10 years I’ve guided hundreds of journeys in both individual and group settings. These practices help you get into the same psychic field as plant medicine but in a more gradual way, without needing any external substance. If you have a mind that is both spiritual and scientific, this approach can be game-changing.
Please use the form below to ask any questions you may have. It's a compelling approach to healing, and even one soul retrieval can help restore balance on many levels.
Please use the form below to ask any questions you may have. It's a compelling approach to healing, and even one soul retrieval can help restore balance on many levels.