Depth Healing Practices
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”
Depth psychology is a broad umbrella term for a wide array of holistic and integrative healing practices and modalities focused on exploring the hidden or deeper aspects of our human lived experience through the subtle, unconscious and transpersonal aspects of the unconscious.
From a clinical perspective depth psychology is non-pathologizing and strength affirming.
Depth practices explore the unconscious, underworld of psyche through the language of psyche, which often consists of imagery, symbols, metaphor, colors, numerology, dreams, ritual, behavioral patterns, body movement and archetypal patterning
Attention is focused on investigating these hidden, unconscious processes for clarity and understanding. Once in our conscious awareness previous wounding, painful memories and old programming can be processed, integrated and released, which alleviates pain and suffering.
Awareness of our unconscious behavioral patterns allow us to move through and heal previous unresolved wounding, memories, adverse behavior or limiting belief patterns and move into authentic wholeness. To live an authentic life we must face our unconscious shadow constructs.
“Depth psychological practices explore hidden aspects of human experience through more expansive, multi-layered perspectives, and maintains a certain curiosity of unique individual dynamics”. – Chalquist (2009)
By lifting the veil of the unconscious realm, peering underneath the superficial conscious realm, we can access hidden ego-based traits to access our truth. These new insights can show us how adverse behavioral programming, limiting belief patterns and old stories have been holding us back in life, while often creating an underlying feeling of not being good enough.
Letting go of these old defense mechanisms, which until then directed our life, opens the doorway to reconnect with our intuition, instincts, spirit and truth. This clarity allows us to move into our authentic self and truth, which is where meaning in life and purpose are derived.
This shift in perspective allows us to view ourselves, others and the world at large through a different lens, to observe the often-missed subtle pleasures and joy in our life. From this this place we are free to live a more embodied, more empowered life, as our highest self.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – C.W. Jung
Disclaimer: I am not a licensed psychologist or medical doctor. My services do not replace the care of psychologists, doctors, or other licensed medical professionals. Somatic, depth psychological, shamanic healing practices and entheogen facilitation &integration services should not be construed as substitutes for psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of psychotherapy or medical advice.
Depth Practices
STRENGTHS
Depth psychology is often referred to as Jungian, due to Jung’s extensive work on the structured framework of the unconscious psyche. Depth approaches focus on the underworld of psyche, human development, personality formation, and individuation. Individuation is the process of bringing our unconscious potential into a concrete living reality, which secures a bridge between the individual and their unconscious. By incorporating both an inner and outer exploration, one discovers a more potent sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Jung believed that psychological distress is a result of an imbalance within the individual that often is experienced as an alienation from the deeper personality, or what he called the Self. A Jungian approach seeks to restore individual’s connection to Self.
Depth practitioners work through the archetype of the “wounded healer”, which means they have “skin in the game”. Both the client and depth practitioner have wounded souls. Working together they can merge their souls to evoke healing has ‘skin in the game”. Mutual vulnerability creates a dynamic of equality between the practitioner and client, which serves to facilitate safety and trust.
Depth practices adaptability and pliability represent unique strengths of depth approaches to allow repressed hidden parts of the self to rise into conscious awareness for clarity, understanding, integration and dissipation. Uncovering the root cause of adverse and repressed unconscious memories, images, stories and behavioral patterns are often the missing pieces of the puzzle for recovery and healing.
Depth Practices & Psyhic Wounding
Depth psychology is often referred to as Jungian, due to Jung’s extensive work on the structured framework of the unconscious psyche. Depth approaches focus on the underworld of psyche, human development, personality formation, and individuation. Individuation is the process of bringing our unconscious potential into a concrete living reality, which secures a bridge between the individual and their unconscious. By incorporating both an inner and outer exploration, one discovers a more potent sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Jung believed that psychological distress is a result of an imbalance within the individual that often is experienced as an alienation from the deeper personality, or what he called the Self. A Jungian approach seeks to restore individual’s connection to Self.
Depth practitioners work through the archetype of the “wounded healer”, which means they have “skin in the game”. Both the client and depth practitioner have wounded souls. Working together they can merge their souls to evoke healing has ‘skin in the game”. Mutual vulnerability creates a dynamic of equality between the practitioner and client, which serves to facilitate safety and trust.
Depth practices adaptability and pliability represent unique strengths of depth approaches to allow repressed hidden parts of the self to rise into conscious awareness for clarity, understanding, integration and dissipation. Uncovering the root cause of adverse and repressed unconscious memories, images, stories and behavioral patterns are often the missing pieces of the puzzle for recovery and healing.
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being”
- Carl Jung
