In season 1, episode 6 of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony and her guest talk about spirituality in gestalt therapy. Differentiating between religious ideas and innate spirituality is essential in this offering. In order to follow our client’s innate spirituality as the guide for their healing, we must become aware of the ways in which […]

In season 1, episode 5 of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony explains in more detail the essence of gestalt therapy. She shares about how she found her way to becoming a gestalt therapist, as well as the way Zen Buddhism and Taoism inform the present centeredness and nonviolence of this approach to counseling. Phenomenology, the […]

In season 1, episode 4 of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony and her and guest talk about the ways in which increasing access to intuition in the therapy room happens over time. Intuition is beyond logic, and offering intuitive insight is a therapeutic risk. However, it is a risk that often pays off with the […]

In season 1, episode 3 of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony and her guest talk about how to stay present with a client when working with a neurodivergent population. Learning to expand out capacity to welcome our client as they are without trying to make them different is the essence of this nonviolent, transpersonal approach. […]

In season 1, episode 2 of The Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony and her guest talk about the importance of their own contemplative practices in being transpersonal counselors. Being the purest mirror of reflection allows us to see the ways in which a client’s unfinished business from the past prevents them from contacting the present moment […]