What is Healing The Shadow?
Healing The Shadow is a deep process therapy and a type of shadow work . It includes embodied parts work. In shadow work, we believe that all parts of you are trying to help you in some way, however uncomfortable and difficult they may be. In your Healing The Shadow session(s), you will be given time and space to explore aspects of yourself that may be currently hidden.
I will support and facilitate you to begin the journey of bringing transformation and balance to the deep emotional wounds that caused parts of you to go into shadow in the first place.
You will be compassionately and strongly held, and the sessions will offer potential for you to become aware of - and more comfortable with - these parts of you.
Shadow work can free up significant amounts of your power and energy. We find that a lot of power can become locked away in the parts of yourself which have gone into shadow.
Working together, I offer you time, deep listening, and I will, if it is right for you, facilitate you in symbolic carpet work, to potentially bring about significant transformation in both your inner world and, ultimately, in the way that you experience the people and the world around you. You can read all about carpet work on this page of the site.
What issues can I work on?
The range of issues that people bring to this powerful, transformative work is wide. This shadow work is trauma centric and is appropriate for working with, amongst others, issues such as childhood trauma, anger, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges and workplace blocks and challenges. Some clients approach shadow work feeling listless, hopeless, frustrated, sad or even just confused in their day to day life. One of my colleagues often says that shadow work is done on a ‘need to do basis’ - as it can be deeply challenging.
It can also valuable to do Healing The Shadow work as part of your wider therapeutic journey that, perhaps, includes talking therapies, bodywork, meditation, and also alongside specific types of Trauma Therapy.