What is Healing The Shadow?

The shadow work that I am trained in is called Healing The Shadow.

It is also known as deep process psychotherapy and it includes embodied parts work.

In shadow work, we believe that all parts of you are trying to help, no matter how challenging, obstructive or unpleasant the ways in which they manifest seem to be. Most of the time, our experience and interactions with the world and people around us happens through internal filters which are out of our conscious control. As has been said by others, ‘We see the world not as it is, but as we are.’

The filters through which we experience the world arise out of our unique personal childhood experiences, trauma and parenting. They are largely unconsciously driven (ie they are in shadow), and have long, deep roots.

In your Healing The Shadow sessions, I will work alongside you to find and develop an understanding of, and connection with, wounded parts of you that may be hidden from your consciousness. These parts of us are never truly gone and so play out in shadowy ways. They may show up in ways such as: over-reaction, fears that don’t quite make sense, a loss of joy, or of personal power, accidental behaviours, grief that we fear may overwhelm, rage - and others.

I will support and facilitate you to begin a journey of transformation and healing of the deep emotional wounds that caused parts of you to go into shadow in the first place.

Shadow work can free up significant amounts of your power and energy, which can become locked away in parts of yourself which have gone into shadow.

Working together, I offer you my skill, time, deep active listening and space for carpet work, to potentially bring these parts out of shadow and into your conscious awareness - so that you can start to have choice and control over them. Once we know a part of ourselves, we can start to find the gold that is hidden within it.

“Every shadow is ninety percent pure gold”

C.G. Jung

In my experience, this work has the potential to considerably deepen the authenticity of your connections with others.

Read about carpet work on this page of the site.