What is a Spiritual Psychotherapist?

A spiritual psychotherapist is a mental health professional with skills, training and education in the field of mental health and combined expertise in the spiritual field. The spiritual aspect may encompass an in-depth functional knowledge of subtle field anatomy, extra-sensory ability, understanding and knowledge about subtle field causes of psychological issues, and a transpersonal view of healing.

The individual goals of the client are held in highest regard, as the spiritual psychotherapist method recognizes the individual from a unique and multi-dimensional perspective, which enables an enriching and more complete form personal healing.

A spiritual psychotherapist is able to define terms that are vital to the healing process, and works with universal references for standards of wellbeing, therefore facilitating psychotherapy sessions based on the individual balance and needs of the client.

The process of healing trauma, resolving conflicts, improving mental health, and increasing the quality of one’s own life may be viewed as vehicles of spiritual progression.

How does a Spiritual Psychotherapist help?

A spiritual psychotherapist should be able to accurately identify the energy and consciousness of the client in session, for example the clients’ essential blueprint and natural points of inner balance. The clients’ inner being provides the information that is needed in order to heal, and the spiritual psychotherapist facilitates the work. Healing on multiple levels of identity are addressed, including the instinctive (subconscious animal mind), emotional body, mental body, the ancestral body, soul body, and the spectrum of subtle field bodies commonly discussed in energetic healing and spiritual communities.

The aim of a spiritual psychotherapist is to assist the client to be free from pain, blocks, and wounds at any level of being, and restore the inner balance and alignment with the original blueprint of the individual. This leads the client to improve their self-knowledge, to be free from psychological pain, to feel confident and resourceful to navigate life’s challenges and accomplish their, goals, and overall help the client to create the internal conditions that lead to a life of increased fulfillment.

Does a spiritual psychotherapist address Complex-PTSD?

Rachel Anenberg, MSW RSW, is a registered social worker and qualified mental health professional. Although C-PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) is not included in the DSM-V-TR, Rachel recognizes c-ptsd as a condition that can greatly impact mental health, relationships, and self-esteem. The spiritual psychotherapist approach to healing complex-ptsd, provides a good fit to heal c-PTSD. Multiple levels of one’s personal identity are affected in complex-PTSD.

The spiritual psychotherapist is informed to assess and facilitate healing for these levels, including the instinctive, emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual impacts of c-PTSD. In order to ideally heal complex-ptsd, experience effective trauma release, and restore inner peace and safety, the correct level of impact needs to be addressed in a balanced way. A spiritual psychotherapist will be aware of the multi-dimensional elements of an individual, and therefore informed to address the impacts of c-ptsd on the multiple levels where it is present to be healed.

How long does it take to heal? The spiritual psychotherapist perspective.

It is expected that each appointment with a spiritual psychotherapist result in a form of healing and resolution, and progressively contributes to an overall improvement in quality of life and resolution of symptoms.

The length of time required to heal is highly individual. Some clients do experience full resolution following a single session, while others require more time. This is due to individual needs, the complexity of trauma, and contributing factors such as the impact of events and the psychological resources available to the individual at the time of those events.

A spiritual psychotherapist must embody the quality of allowance in order to correctly facilitate healing. This open up adequate space and presence, for the client to access their healing ability and safely release trauma. Being ‘frozen’, ‘stuck’, ‘blocked’, and/or ‘angry’ are so often experienced as part of the c-ptsd condition, that forcing the question of ‘when will I heal’ often works against the healing process - because this question reinforces the pressure against one’s condition and causes a block.