The Awakened Therapist: Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy in Gestalt Therapy
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 218
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 97965
- ISBN 13 : 9781032862378
- ISBN 10 : 1032862378
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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. Bringing new depths to the art of therapy, Harmony Kwiker provides a map for therapists to dismantle the old paradigm of therapist-as-expert and honor their clients’ innate wisdom. The chapters seamlessly weave together elusive concepts of levels of awareness, subtle energy, and spiritual alignment with psychological concepts that are embedded in the theory and application of gestalt therapy. After reading this book, therapists will be inspired and energized while having more substantial breakthroughs with their clients.
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The Awakened Therapist is a visionary exploration, shedding light on often overlooked aspects of therapist consciousness and energetic attunement within the healing process. Through a transpersonal gestalt perspective, Harmony Kwiker offers invaluable insights and practical guidance for therapists, illustrating how heightened awareness shapes the therapeutic encounter.
Katie Asmus, MA, LPC, BMP, founder of The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute
The Awakened Therapist is a must read for new and seasoned therapists who want to discover the healing potential of transpersonal gestalt counseling. Harmony has offered us a clear and profound account of how to stay connected to our true nature as we hold space for clients.
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, author of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook and The Complex PTSD Workbook
The Awakened Therapist is a marvelous book that shows therapists how to come from awake awareness in their work and how to foster this awareness in their clients. There is no book for therapists on this topic that illuminates in such depth and detail exactly how to conduct therapy from this paradigm.
Susan Campbell, PhD, author of Getting Real and From Triggered to Tranquil
Table 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(s)
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.
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