In coaching and therapy, intuition often whispers before it speaks. A sudden image, a phrase that lands just right, or a tingling awareness in the body—these subtle experiences are sometimes called the clair senses: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairalience, clairgustance, and claircognizance. We’ll discuss reclaiming symbolic ways of knowing in coaching and therapy and look at… [Read More]
Beyond the Hashtag Priestess: The Rise of the Seasoned Mystic
There’s a particular kind of image that floods our feeds these days: flowing gowns, bare feet on the sand, a hand lifted toward the setting sun. Captions promise activation, ascension, and alignment — all within a single carousel swipe. Let’s go beyond the hashtag priestess and speak to the rise of the seasoned mystic. The… [Read More]
Holding Sacred Space as an Empowering Agenda
When we gather—whether in a therapy session, a Tarot reading, a circle under the full moon, or even in an online community dedicated to the mystical, we are holding sacred space for the other. These spaces are meant to remind us of our own capacity to listen deeply, to sense, and to know and reflect… [Read More]
Reiki as Self-Care in Psychotherapy: Walking the Line with Integrity
As integrative practitioners, many of us hold multiple identities. I’m both a licensed psychotherapist and a Reiki Master Teacher, and like many of you, I often find myself discerning where these roles overlap and where they should remain distinct. One question I wrestled with early on was this: Can I teach Reiki as self-care to… [Read More]
Essential Soul Care: A Psychospiritual MODEL
When people first hear the phrase Essential Soul Care®, they often ask me, “Is it a theory? A therapy? A spiritual practice?” The truth is, it’s all of these in spirit, but most accurately, Essential Soul Care® is a model—a structured, integrative way of approaching personal growth, healing, and transformation. Orientations, Modalities, and Models—What’s the… [Read More]
Coaching Through a Neo-Jungian Lens
As coaching matures as a profession, many practitioners are seeking ways to move beyond surface strategies and performance goals into the deeper territory of meaning, identity, and transformation. A Neo-Jungian lens offers coaches a powerful way to meet this hunger. Rooted in Carl Jung’s psychology yet adapted for today’s pluralistic and spiritually diverse world, Neo-Jungian… [Read More]
Listening to the Body: My Histamine Journey
For much of my life I’ve lived with health challenges that defied easy explanation. I was born with primary lymphedema and then I acquired sarcoidosis over two decades ago. In recent years those challenges reached a breaking point: vertigo, dizziness, light sensitivity, wheezing, and vestibular migraines that sometimes struck three or four times a week…. [Read More]
Shadow Work and the Therapist’s Interior Landscape
When we step into the role of therapist, coach, or healer, we carry more than theory and technique. We carry the fullness of who we are—our stories, our lived experiences, our values, and yes, our shadow. Shadow in therapy is not just with regard to the client. It’s the therapist too. The shadow, as Carl… [Read More]
