Spiritual Counseling
Spiritual counseling with Alexa is a unique synthesis of applied Buddhist philosophy, Chinese medical theory and philosophy, energy medicine, earth-based spiritual wisdom, hypnotherapy and breathwork. It can help you understand yourself better, support you on your path of personal development, and tease out deep-seated, subconscious, root causes of mental, physical, or emotional pain or anguish.
Why Spiritual Counseling?
I work within a spiritual counseling framework called Depth Hypnosis. It’s a unique and highly effective system developed by Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D that combines key principles of Buddhist philosophy, transpersonal psychology, shamanism, hypnotherapy, and energy work, and I bring to it the additional insights offered by Chinese medical theory and philosophy, breathwork, and over two decades of clinical practice.
An unyielding emphasis on personal empowerment and personal responsibility is a fundamental aspect of this work. At each stage, Depth Hypnosis actively involves you — the client — in the process of discovering what is needed to effect the changes you seek in your life. In this way, you are deeply supported in getting more directly in touch with your personal power, your inner guidance, and your innate ability to heal — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
The Depth Hypnosis model is a wellspring of resources and opportunity for those who seek to understand themselves more fully in order to make lasting changes in their lives. The techniques are many, which allows us to cover a lot of variable ground:
We can follow current life issues back to their source, where we can change the energetic imprint of a precipitating event.
We can interpret the subconscious material of dreams (and journeys) and gain a deeper understanding of the obstacles that are creating disharmony in our lives.
We can free ourselves of energetic entanglements that have been holding us back, or that have unknowingly forced us to use our energy in ways that aren’t natively our own.
We can shore up our inner resources so that we feel more grounded, confident, and powerful as we make choices and move through our day-to-day lives.
And in all of these processes, we practice how to calm our minds and focus our attention inward, making ourselves more available to the inner wisdom and guidance that is always present within us.
In short, Depth Hypnosis helps us move beyond our unconscious motivations and reflexive responses, and into a more conscious engagement with ourselves and our lives.
Spiritual Counseling Services currently include:
In-person Spiritual Counseling sessions for new or established clients
Virtual (Zoom) Spiritual Counseling sessions for new or established clients
What does a session look like?
We’ll use our first 1-2 sessions together to set up a strong working foundation. We’ll clarify the areas of your life where you’re seeking support, we’ll generate an “emotional biography” to help us navigate who you are and what you’ve been through, and we’ll do a process to put you in direct contact with the strength — and reality — of your own inner guidance.
From there, things open up and can go in a multitude of directions as the work unfolds. We may have several similar sessions in a row — a series of suggestion hypnosis, for example — or each session may take on a unique shape of its own.
Some sessions may be just directed questions, but most will include light altered state work: you get comfortable, I use guided relaxation to help you into a light hypnotherapeutic or trance state, and together we work with one of the multiple tools of Depth Hypnosis to explore the issue or feeling at hand.
We can’t predict how any given session will unfold, but we can say that you’ll leave each one having gained at least some new knowledge about yourself, insight about how you operate, balm for an old wound, or fresh sense of power and peace in being exactly who you are.