Awakened Therapist - Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy in Gestalt Therapy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Harmony Kwiker, Harmony (Naropa University Kwiker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032862385
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286238-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Mental health services, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Gestalt