eNERGY pSYCHOLOGY
Essentials of Deep Healing and Spiritual Transformation
My approach to working with clients is a unique system that facilitates deep healing and spiritual transformation. It includes a blueprint for multi-dimensional transformation and healing, finding and healing the hidden spiritual and energetic roots of trauma and core wounds, that are the missing links behind the personal, and relationship challenges clients experience. Not only is this approach a healing method, it is a powerful system for facilitating growth and spiritual transformation, guiding women to become conscious co-creators of the life, relationships and work in the world that expresses their highest and best Self ~ the person and work each woman is uniquely born into this lifetime to become. I term this deep holistic approach Depth Energy Healing™. It is my system of Energy Psychology for women, grounded in a deep understanding of the life path and needs of women today, as encapsulated by the Heroine’s Journey. Because this approach is distinctive, and not psychotherapy or clinical psychology, and perhaps you, like many, have questions about what it is and how it works, the following is a basic introduction.
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COACHING: Similarities and Differences
Two Approaches to Helping People Change Their Lives
Psychotherapy and psychology are the mainstream broad umbrellas for helping people with their personal or relationship concerns. While there are many schools and approaches to psychotherapy and psychology, they have common underpinnings and assumptions about people and how people change. While there is a range of emphasis in each of these characteristics, in general psychotherapy today has the following underlying premises. Some of these will be familiar, some not, some premises will be comfortable for you, others not. Coaching is the newer approach to helping people change and achieve their desires. This is contrasted to psychotherapy below.
Old Style Traditional Therapy:
The emphasis is on self-awareness and insight, with an inward focus. Change is inferred in the increase in self-awareness and insight.
Many traditional or old-school models are based on a paradigm of pathology, or brokenness, in other words, a paradigm of something being wrong, in need of being fixed. They diagnose and treat mental disorders, as categorized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the mental health equivalent of the medical diagnostic manual.
The focus is on history and self-examination, and asking the question “why?”
The relationship between therapist and patient is hierarchical. The therapist is the expert, the client is a patient. This is inherently paternalistic and keeps patients in a position of less personal power, looking outward to the “expert” for answers.
The medical model is the implied foundation. Human Beings are viewed as a set of components, some of which need to be fixed, with little if any recognition of the whole person.
Individual methods of psychotherapy tend to de-emphasize the person in the context of her relationships, and the influence that relationships and families have on individual health and functioning.
Newer Models of Therapy:
Newer methods of psychotherapy are more solution-focused and brief. This is in part, a result of the goal of managed mental health care to achieve changes in mental health and behavior as quickly as possible, as well as a response to answering the question of “why?”. The primary focus of change is external, with some work to change thinking patterns and feelings, as a means to changing behavior; thus the term “behavioral health”.
Still anchored in the medical model.
The paradigm is one of finding solutions. There is some moving away from the paradigm of pathology, though newer methods still diagnose and treat mental disorders.
Less hierarchy in the relationship between therapist and client. The client is now in a more equal position relative to the therapist.
Language is the primary tool.
Works with the mental, emotional, behavioral and relationship levels of the client(s).
Marriage and Family Therapy is among these newer models.
Life and Relationship Coaching:
Focus is on the whole person in the context of her relationships and on her life story and her life journey.
While the mental level is predominant, and “mindset” or beliefs are seen as the critical focus of change, the coaching paradigm and focus is more one of wholeness, potential and growth, empowering a client to live a more empowered, fulfilled and self-actualized life. Coaching is focused on quality of life.
The orientation is toward the future, and the outcomes clients wants to create, and includes movement from inner to outer worlds. The past is discovered and addressed as part of this orientation and movement.
Clients are seen as powerful, whole, capable and self-determining, with the ability to make the changes they desire, when provided with education and coaching tools. This lens is more empowering for clients.
The relationship is seen as a partnership of equals. The coach is a guide and mentor.
Grounded in the Human Potential movement, coaching is not circumscribed or limited by the medical model or managed mental health care. Coaching does not diagnose or treat mental disorders.
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY: A Holistic Approach Ideal for Women
While I began my career as a Marriage and Family Therapist and value this framework and basic guiding principles and theory, my approach of Depth Energy Healing™ with Spiritual Life Coaching is aligned with the depth coaching model of change. I do not subscribe to the medical model of disease and brokenness, and I do not diagnose or treat mental disorders. I see clients are powerful, Self-determined and whole with enormous potential for growth. If you enroll in a program and work with me, we will work in a collaborative partnership, and focus on your future and creating your highest quality, optimal, ideal life, marriage and highest contributions though your unique gifts and life experiences.
We include understanding your past, and discovering it’s meaning and significance in your life, and access this rich source of healing and empowerment as the means of healing the hidden energetic roots for the challenges you want to move beyond. We work together as a team from an inside – out paradigm to create the new foundation for the deepened love, fulfillment, joy and contributions you Desire to create.
For most women, their first focus is healing, and then co-creation of the life, marriage and work in the world their Souls Desire. Energy Psychology facilitates a deep level of energetic, spiritual healing, then transformation and Soul growth as women travel forward on their Heroines Journeys.
Introduction to Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology (EP), Energy Therapy, Energy Healing or Energy Work as it is also termed, is not psychotherapy or clinical psychology as traditionally understood or described above. It is a comprehensive “mind-body approach to understanding and improving human functioning. Energy Psychology focuses on the relationship between bio-energy systems, neuro- and electro- physiological processes, and mental functions involving thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behavior. These systems and processes exist and interact within the individual and between people. They are also influenced by cultural and environmental factors.
Within an Energy Therapy framework, issues are reflected in bio-energetic patterns within and around the mind-body-energy system. Since the mind and body are thought to be interwoven and interactive, this mind-body-energy system involves complex communication involving biological processes, innate electro-physiology, consciousness, and thinking-behavioral-emotional patterns.
The use of Energy Psychology has resulted in the development of associated methods and models to treat personal problems, facilitate health and well-being, and improve human performance. These models and methods are usually used within an integrative or holistic frame and include … coaching, and other healing modalities.” 1
What this means is that Energy Psychology comprises an innovative family of approaches that build on our understanding of the inter-related holism of the spirit, mind and body, and utilizes various aspects of the human energy system. This system includes the bio-field that envelops the body, the energy centers, and the energy pathways.
The Rich Power of Energy Psychology for Healing AND Thriving in Life
Energy Healing methods show remarkable effects in treating and alleviating physical, emotional, relationship and spiritual distress. These include the relief of trauma, phobias, anxiety, stress, addictions, compulsions, allergies, personality concerns, long-standing relationship problems and learning disorders, to name a few. Energy Psychology tools are also effective in promoting high level health and peak performance on the physical, mental, and creative levels. Often within minutes of using these methods, physical or emotional symptoms are greatly reduced or no longer present.
Energy Psychology Research is Very Well Documented
“Over 200 research studies, review articles and meta-analyses of Energy Psychology have been published in professional, peer-reviewed journals” through 2019, and the research is ongoing. This includes over 50 randomized controlled trials, over 50 pre-post outcome studies, 7 meta-analyses, and 12 systematic reviews. Over 99 % of the pre-post studies document EP effectiveness. The evidence base for EP is growing rapidly in both quantity and methodological rigor. From the results through 2019, we can say that “multiple research studies have found that Energy Psychology methods effectively treat: depression, anxiety, food cravings, pain, trauma and PTSD.”
In addition, some studies have shown clinically beneficial shifts in stress chemicals and gene expression… In 2016, Thought Field Therapy, (TFT) a method of Energy Psychology, was validated by NREPP (the National Repertory of Evidence Based Practices and Procedures, a division of SAMHSA in the U.S.) as an evidence-based treatment.” Thought Field Therapy is a centerpiece element of Depth Energy Healing™.
“There are over 400 identified forms of psychotherapy, most of which have little or no research to validate them. Energy Psychology is both evidence-based and in the top 10% in terms of published research for healing modalities.” 2
Thought Field Therapy
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is one of the foundations of many Energy Psychology methods. TFT involves tapping on a customized sequence of energy meridian points to desensitize and release painful emotions and memories associated with a targeted problem, and then to imprint and reset positive ones. As a central component of Depth Energy Healing™, I also use Thought Field Therapy as part of the process of guiding clients to create the new spiritual blueprint for creating the thriving in life, marriage and their work in the world, that they seek.
I have extensive advanced specialized training in Thought Field Therapy, and have been using it since 2008. I especially love TFT for it’s precision, and power to be used for trans-dimensional work, going beyond this life to heal and release past lives, ancestral healing, and other invisible roots of clients’ present life challenges, that originate beyond this lifetime.
Rapid Eye Technology
Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is the original, holistic energy therapy that uses eye movements to heal. In addition to directed eye movements, RET utilizes blinking, breathing, meditation, guided imagery, and somatic body learning to find, release and heal deeply embedded traumas and patterns of stress and pain. RET is a centerpiece component of Depth Energy Healing™ and is an especially powerful method for healing childhood and relationship trauma.
Rapid Eye Technology also includes powerful creation processes, and teaching of the Universal Spiritual Laws of Life, guiding clients to release the past, and learn to live in the present, and become the conscious co-creators of the flourishing life they deeply hunger for. RET is deeply spiritual, and the origins of Rapid Eye Technology go back millennia. As a holistic approach, it is deeply honoring of women’s bodies, and the Feminine Spiritual Path.
I have been a master practitioner of Rapid Eye Technology since 2006, and still love this modality for its depth and comprehensiveness of benefit, and it’s gentleness in use.
why i specialize in Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology is the most comprehensive, deep and lasting method of holistic healing and transformational change that is deeply rooted in vigorous research that I have found, in over 25 years of use of alternative healing methods. Through these remarkable yet gentle methods, we can open the door to soul-deep healing and transformation. When Depth Energy Healing™ is interwoven with Spiritual Life Coaching, women’s Sacred Practices, timeless Wisdom, and an understanding of metaphysics and Universal Laws, we step beyond healing to remembering and embodying Truth, knowledge, skills, abilities and principled, sacred power we had eons ago, and are here to remember and claim in this life.
We step beyond healing and even transformation alone, to living as our True Selves, and flourishing in embodied wholeness and joy. We learn in this life, how to be the conscious creators we are Divinely born to become, and in so doing, learn how to create the deeply joyful, loving and fulling life, marriage and work in the world our Soul’s hunger for, in this Earthly life.
All of this together is the grand arc of the Heroine’s Journeys of our lives.
Let me help you become All you are meant to be in life
If this resonates for you, and you are looking for deeper healing and transformation, so you can step into the fullness of yourSelf, and create the deeper joy, love, meaning and contribution you hunger for, please reach out to me here, to see how I may be able to assist you.
Selected References
Excerpted from “What is Energy Psychology?” The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.
Excerpted from “The Science Behind Energy Psychology: Quick Facts.” The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.
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