The Awakened Therapist

The Awakened Therapist is an accessible introduction to gestalt therapy through the lens of transpersonal counseling, one that offers a clear and profound account of how to bridge the gap between traditional counseling and spiritual transformation.

Autorentext

Harmony Kwiker, MA, LPC, is a visiting instructor at Naropa University serving as lead gestalt faculty. She is the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, where she teaches the art of transpersonal counseling.

Klappentext

The Awakened Therapist is an accessible introduction to gestalt therapy through the lens of transpersonal counseling, one that offers a clear and profound account of how to bridge the gap between traditional counseling and spiritual transformation.

Inhalt

Part 1: Conscious Awareness and the Therapeutic Container 1. Resting in Awareness 2. Understanding Levels of Awareness 3. Awareness of Cultural Lenses 4. Spirituality and Subtle Energy 5. Skills for Holding a Sacred Container **Part 2: Contact **6. Contact, the Nervous System, and Spiritual Alignment 7. Deepening into Contact 8. Resonance and Polarity 9. Mapping the Client's Inner World **Part 3: Deep Transformation 10. Creativity and Transformation **11. Working with Polarities 12. Working with an Unfinished Situation 13. Working with Different Contact Boundary Disturbances 14. Transpersonal Parts Work 15. Working with Dreams and Other Non-Ordinary States ****16. Spiritual Self-Care