Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy
Spiritual life and questions do not have to be separate from the work you do in psychotherapy. For some, spirituality shapes how they view loss, anxiety, depression, and life transition. Spiritually-integrated psychotherapy respects your spirituality in whatever way you practice and define it.
What This Looks Like
What sessions feel like
Spiritually-integrated psychotherapy acknowledges that spirituality plays an important role in shaping your life. For some, spiritual practice, beliefs, and community have been a real source of support. For others, it has caused real harm. Either way, we start with where you’re with it, on your terms.
Who This is For
Who uses Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy?
You feel the Spiritual and the Psychological are intertwined
You might have the experience that your psychological and spiritual experiences overlap, influence each other, and can benefit from an integrative perspective that values both. Sometimes, the psychological and the spiritual feel like a tangled knot rather than a cohesive whole. Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy looks at them as a connected unit worthy of attention.
You’ve left a tradition, community, or a belief, and you’re trying to make sense of it all
Transitioning away from a way of life can feel both liberating and like a loss. Indeed, even though people leave their spiritual communities to better their lives, it can still feel like a great loss. I’ve experienced this myself. Spiritually-integrated psychotherapy provides a space where these feelings and experiences can come to light, without judgement.
You want to explore what you believe without being steered toward an answer
Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy can often be a space for exploring current beliefs and practices and how they are impacting your life. These conversations are existential too. You might find yourself asking questions about the meaning of life, purpose, and identity as well. The difference? You’re spiritual life is explicitly a part of the conversation, not left on the outside.
Logistics
How Sessions Work
Frequency
Based on your needs
Usually weekly or bi-weekly
Session Length
50-minutes
Format
In-person and Online
Booking
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Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy treats your spiritual life as part of the work of psychotherapy, not outside of it. Whatever your spirituality looks like, it becomes part of what we explore together in therapy, alongside everything else in your life. Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy is not spiritual guidance, although you might come to feel yourself being guided by your own work in therapy.
What is Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy?
No. Therapy is for anyone and everyone who wants a space to explore themselves. This can often look like talking about their relationships, career, childhood, future hopes and dreams, guilt and shame, and everything in between.
Do I need a specific problem to start therapy?
Anxiety, grief, issues with relationships, and any other life experiences come up in Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy as much as anywhere else. The difference is how we look at them—through the lens of your spiritual life, practices, beliefs, and doubts. We look at the whole thing instead of splitting it into separate conversations.
How is this different from therapy for anxiety, grief, or relationships?
It depends on the individual. Some people find having a therapist to come to over a long period of time to be helpful. Others might feel like they simply need 3-6 sessions. It all depends on your needs and what you want from therapy.
How long do people stay in this kind of therapy?
Curious if this is a fit?
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