Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Hypnotherapist, Diplomate Comprehensive Energy Psychology
Shamanic Healing
Shamanism is a system of healing based on spiritual practices that originated in tribal cultures. The shaman is a healer who acquires knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual power from personal helping spirits whom the shaman encounters on journeys into other realities that are normally invisible and undetectable to people whose conscious awareness is usually focused on the ordinary reality of daily life. The Shamanic practitioner is able to see and enter realms intentionally that most people encounter only in dreams and myth, and from these realms, the Shamanic practitioner brings back vital information for the healing of individuals, communities and the Earth itself. Shamanic healing may involve extraction of harmful intrusion that cause sickness or bad luck, soul retrieval to bring back lost parts of one’s soul, power animal retrieval to bring back helping spirits to aid the person in daily life and divination work to retrieve answers to questions a person may need spiritual help with.
I studied under a shaman for over 5 years learning about and healing wounds to the soul of an individual. In modern times, when a person feels as if they have left their body because they are experiencing pain that feels too scary or too intense to handle, we call that dissociation. In shamanic cultures they refer to that as Soul Loss. Soul Loss can happen to anyone at anytime during their lifetime. It doesn't have to be classical traumas such as abuse, neglect, addiction, etc. A person can experience soul loss from anything from teasing, shame, isolation, rejection, poor self image, etc. Working together to explore those past trauma's, the lasting negative story or belief we created from that trauma and the behaviors that are driven by those limiting beliefs and healing once and for all from them is the work of shamanic healing that I practice. Getting those lost soul parts back is essential to long lasting healing.