Time to Remember Our Therapist Roots

Finding your voice as a new therapist can be a challenge, especially when you’re a bit on the fringe. The training you’ve had has likely attempted to teach you the more medicalized version of being a therapist, but your wild, naturalistic, whole human focused heart, wants to incorporate something deeper into your work.

How do you integrate these pieces of who you are the professional and your self?

How do you fit into the box of the system and still expand through to reach the reason you were drawn to being a therapist in the first place?

Thankfully, we are in a space of time where both are possible. We’re seeing integrative approaches to therapy & human growth that honour all facets of what people are needing in all aspects of their humanness.

Since we are connected in this space, it’s likely that you’ve had clients come to you with energetic, existential, or spiritual work that they sought you out to provide and it spoke to you in a significant way.

Under the sprawling branches of an ancient tree, a reminder to rediscover our purpose and connect with the wisdom within.

You likely have some aspects of you that show up in the therapy room that you can’t quite explain scientifically, so you explain it through empathy or intuition.

There is something more at work here though. There are biological explanations for what you are experiencing that are also deeply sacred.

Remember the translation of “psyche” was not “mind”, but “essence”. We have flattened language into English translations in an attempt to better pinpoint an understanding of a multi-faceted concept. 

What if we stopped flattening and started expanding our understanding & our language? What would happen for us as practitioners if we approached our clients as guides to help them heal their essence? How would that change the work we do with clients if we approached them from  the multi-dimensional expression of who they are, instead of mind & emotion?

The time is here for us to take the flattened, categorized, knowledge we have learned through research and re-expand now to the larger view of how we operate as humans and as therapists.

Perhaps that is already taking place more than professionals feel safe or comfortable to talk openly about, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is happening, or that our professional evolution is calling for it, or that clients are longing for that type of depth of connection.

Who do you see yourself as, when you step into your therapist self?

What role do you take on when you call yourself a therapist?

What does that mean to you?

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