Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy
Whether you follow Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or other Cultural & Traditional Beliefs, are a practicing Witch, a Wiccan, a Pagan, spiritual practitioner, follow New Age Practices or are generally interested in Spirituality, you deserve affirming compassionate care.
What is Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy?
What Makes This Approach Unique?
Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy goes beyond traditional talk therapy by incorporating seasonal cycles, lunar phases, astrological wisdom, and your personal spiritual practices into the therapeutic process. This approach recognizes that mental health challenges often have deeper spiritual and cosmic components that traditional therapy may not address.
In spiritually affirming therapy, I invite you into a holistic and creative space that is supportive, non-stigmatizing, integrative and respectful of your beliefs and practices towards total embodied healing by incorporating your traditional, cultural and spiritual practices and individual methods of healing.
This therapy honors diverse spiritual paths and creates an inclusive space for clients who feel drawn to explore their mental health through the lens of cosmic consciousness, archetypal psychology, and spiritual wisdom traditions.
Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy is an integrative therapeutic approach that honors your spiritual beliefs and utilizes astrological insights alongside evidence-based psychological practices to support your mental health and personal transformation. This modality recognizes that healing occurs not just in the mind and body, but also in the realm of spirit and cosmic connection.
You may find yourself here because you are a spiritual practitioner from any tradition - whether pagan, wiccan, witch, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or following other cultural and spiritual paths - searching for a therapist who understands and affirms your experience, and does not take your beliefs, practices, rituals and religion as a symptom that needs to be treated. Maybe you have encountered misunderstanding, discomfort, or stigma when sharing your practices in therapy in the past, or are tired of dancing around your beliefs out of fear of being seen a certain way or misunderstood.
My approach combines traditional psychotherapy with ancient wisdom traditions and cosmic awareness, creating a sacred space where your spiritual practices become integrated tools for healing and self-discovery. This therapy is founded on the belief that we are interconnected with cosmic rhythms and that understanding these connections can facilitate profound healing and transformation.
Spiritual Practices We May Incorporate Include:
Dreamwork and dream interpretation for subconscious exploration
Somatic Excavation to release trapped emotions and energy in the body
Astrology for understanding cosmic timing and personal patterns
Tarot as a tool for self-reflection and insight
Crystal Healing and energy work for emotional balance
Meditation & Sound Healing for nervous system regulation
Herbology & Candle Work for intentional ritual and manifestation
Nature-Based & Folk practices for grounding and connection
Creation and Energy Work through art-making and creative expression
Moon Phase Awareness for aligning with natural cycles
Seasonal Living and honoring the wheel of the year
Journal Prompts for self-reflection and spiritual exploration
Traditional & Cultural Based practices honoring your heritage
The Benefits of Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy Include:
Deepening self-awareness through understanding your spiritual nature and cosmic connections
Finding meaning and purpose by exploring your soul's journey and spiritual calling
Understanding relationship patterns through archetypal and energetic exploration
Navigating life transitions with awareness of seasonal cycles and cosmic timing
Healing ancestral and karmic patterns by exploring generational themes and spiritual inheritance
Developing spiritual practices that align with your authentic path and natural rhythms
Integrating shadow aspects through archetypal exploration and spiritual wisdom
Building resilience by understanding cosmic timing and working with natural cycles
Enhancing intuition and connection to your inner wisdom and spiritual guidance
Creating intentional living aligned with your values and spiritual beliefs
How Can Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy Help Me?
Anxiety
Astrology-informed therapy helps you understand anxiety through the lens of cosmic influences and spiritual lessons. By exploring current planetary transits, seasonal shifts, and moon phases, we can identify patterns that may be triggering anxiety and develop spiritually-aligned coping strategies that honor both your psychological needs and spiritual nature. See How Mercury Retrograde Effects Your Mental Health and Why Your Anxiety Spikes During Mercury Retrograde (And How to Work With It Instead of Against It)
Depression
Depression often can coincide with a disconnection from soul purpose and spiritual vitality. Through exploring your relationship with seasonal cycles, creative expression, and spiritual practices, we can identify areas where your authentic self may be suppressed and work to realign your life with your soul's calling, bringing renewed meaning and spiritual connection to your healing process.
Life Transitions
Major life changes often correspond with significant cosmic cycles and seasonal shifts. By understanding these natural rhythms, you can navigate transitions with greater awareness, finding meaning in challenges and aligning your choices with your spiritual growth and natural timing.
What Does Spiritually Affirming Therapy Look Like?
While working on many of the other things that may be bringing you to therapy, we will work towards achieving a spiritually enriched, embodied life you love. Whether you are atheist or agnostic interested in general spiritual practices, follow New Age or earth-based spiritual paths like Paganism, Wicca, or Witchcraft, practice traditional religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism, or draw from other cultural and ancestral traditions, I will work with you to explore the sacred connection of your mind, body, heart, and spirit.
In our work together I will invite you to embrace and encourage the expression of your whole self in all aspects of your daily life. Through the foundation of Integrated Creative Art Therapy, we will work together to bring in creativity, compassion, curiosity, wonder, and work within the four areas of self to bring connection to our mind, body, heart, and soul. We will work with your spiritual practice in mind to bring all areas of self into harmony, through creativity, creation, mindfulness, and body awareness to promote deep embodied healing.
How I Work Through the Four Areas of Self
Body
We work to cultivate body awareness which involves respecting our senses, sensations, and our breath. Through body awareness, we can begin to recognize the important feedback and information the body gives. We work to dialogue with our Embodied Cognition, which is the belief that the body has its own form of cognition, its own way of understanding, knowing, and experiencing.
Throughout the therapeutic process and creativity, our bodies give input in how this arouses emotion, memories, sensations, and actions within the body. We use this information to recognize patterns, feelings, and actions that we take in response to our environment, and lived experience. In acknowledging that we are informed by the body in these ways, we then can give our bodies the time and space to express themselves. We work to tune into this feedback through our five senses, our heart space, somatic parts work, meditation, and breathwork to cultivate communication between mind, body, heart, and soul.
Mind
The mind is the cognitive thinking part of creativity. We acknowledge the mind's capacity to marvel and ask big questions about big things. We work to incorporate mindfulness into daily life, encourage curiosity, wonder, contemplation, and self-reflection.
Self Reflection is the ability to inquire and come to terms with the feedback that you gather from the world in relation to yourself through the past, present, and future experiences, heritages, and perspectives of the world. We support the neuroplasticity of the mind as the capacity to be reshaped, and refined through specific exercises, constructing different ways of thinking, and strengthening kinder inner self-dialogue.
Heart
Throughout the therapeutic process, we are learning to communicate with the inner emotional world. We often describe feelings as coming from or living within the heart. Similar to body awareness, we work to develop heart awareness. We acknowledge that the heart gives feedback through emotions that are equally as important as the body and mind.
Through acknowledging the heart space and the emotional world we work to cultivate authenticity and connection to others and ourselves. This connection can be referred to as Heartset - our relationship to our emotional world and its space within ourselves. In tuning into our heartset we can begin to dialogue with our feelings and grow awareness of our emotional responses. Heartset involves being aware of our core values, making choices aligned with those values, and pursuing a life informed by the authentic self's desires.
Soul
Soul is acknowledging the inner knowing that we all contain through self-reflection, imagination, the collective unconscious, creativity, and personal symbols. It is a reflection of the personal investigation and deeper work of self. By contemplating life through imagination and creativity, we encounter and work with the symbols, archetypes, metaphors, rituals, and ceremonies that ground the creative aspect of the human experience.
What is a Session Like? Do I Need Specific Spiritual Beliefs?
🌙 What's Included in Your Free New Moon Therapy Preparation Guide
✨ Sacred Self-Inventory Workbook Deep reflection prompts to understand what's calling you toward therapy right now, including family patterns, emotional landscapes, and spiritual connections
🔍 Therapist Research Toolkit Essential questions to ask potential therapists, red flags to avoid, and green flags to look for when seeking HSP-informed care
🌟 Complete New Moon Ritual Guide Step-by-step sacred ceremony for setting intentions and taking action on beginning your therapy journey
📋 Practical Preparation Checklists Insurance verification, scheduling considerations, privacy planning, and logistics to remove barriers to starting therapy
💜 Post-Ritual Integration Practices Daily and weekly practices to support your nervous system as you navigate pre-therapy emotions and first sessions
🎨 Art Therapy Preparation Exercises Simple creative practices to help you connect with your authentic desires and process complex emotions before your first session
📞 Crisis Support Resources Emergency contacts and self-soothing techniques for when therapy preparation brings up overwhelming emotions
🌱 Monthly New Moon Check-In Template Ongoing ritual framework to support your therapy journey throughout the lunar year
💫 Bonus: Sacred Space Creation Guide How to set up supportive environments for your therapy work and personal healing practices
Perfect for:
Highly sensitive people seeking therapy that honors their whole being
Empaths who want spiritual integration with evidence-based care
Anyone drawn to meaningful timing and ritual around important life decisions
People who've felt misunderstood by traditional therapy approaches
Download your free guide and begin your conscious healing journey aligned with the new moon's powerful energy for new beginnings.
You don't need to be an expert in any spiritual practice or have specific beliefs to benefit from this approach. What matters most is your openness to exploring your experiences through multiple lenses and your willingness to consider the interconnection between cosmic patterns, spiritual wisdom, and psychological healing.
Sessions maintain the same professional standards as traditional therapy while incorporating spiritual and cosmic elements:
Safe and confidential environment that honors both psychological and spiritual aspects of healing
Client-centered approach where you determine how much spiritual content feels helpful
Integration of cosmic awareness with traditional therapeutic techniques and interventions
Respect for your spiritual beliefs and incorporation of practices that align with your path
Creative expression through art-making, journaling, and ritual when appropriate
At the beginning of sessions, I invite you to share what's happening in your life and explore how current cosmic influences, seasonal shifts, or spiritual themes might be supporting or challenging your growth. We work together to understand both the psychological and spiritual dimensions of your experiences, using this integrated awareness to support your healing and transformation.
Ready to Make the First Step?
Ready to explore your healing journey through both psychological and cosmic wisdom? Book your free consultation to learn how Spiritually Affirming & Astrology Informed Therapy can support your growth and transformation.
Navigating Mercury Retrograde and Mental Health
Welcome to your guide on thriving during Mercury Retrograde, a time often associated with reflection, reassessment, and inner work. This workbook is your companion in turning this celestial time into an opportunity for personal growth and healing!
With 76 pages of insightful content, including intention-setting exercises, shadow work, journal prompts, rituals, and art therapy activities, you’ll be equipped to embrace the challenges and gifts of this period. Additionally, you’ll find 18 beautifully designed mandalas and coloring pages to support your creative expression and mental well-being.
This workbook includes sections such as:
Understanding Mercury Retrograde and the Connection to Mental Health
This section explores the astrological significance of Mercury Retrograde and its impact on communication, technology, and personal relationships. Learn how these cosmic shifts can influence your mental and emotional state, and discover strategies to stay grounded and centered.
Intention Setting for Mercury Retrograde
Harness the reflective energy of Mercury Retrograde by setting clear, meaningful intentions. This section offers guided exercises to help you identify areas of your life that need attention, release old patterns, and set the stage for positive transformation.
Jungian Shadow Work and Self-Discovery
Dive deep into your subconscious with shadow work exercises designed to uncover hidden aspects of your psyche. Confronting your shadow side can be challenging, but it’s a powerful way to heal old wounds and integrate all parts of yourself. These prompts will guide you through this process with compassion and insight.
Journal Prompts for Reflection and Growth
Writing is a potent tool for self-discovery and emotional release. This section provides a variety of journal prompts tailored to the themes of Mercury Retrograde, such as revisiting past experiences, exploring unresolved emotions, and gaining clarity on your current path.
Art Therapy Prompts for Creative Healing
Art therapy allows you to express emotions that words cannot capture. In this section, you’ll find prompts designed to help you explore your feelings through drawing, painting, and other creative mediums. No artistic experience is needed—just an open heart and a willingness to explore.
Rituals for Mercury Retrograde
Rituals can be a powerful way to channel the energy of Mercury Retrograde into positive change. This section offers a variety of rituals that you can perform to ground yourself, protect your energy, and release what no longer serves you. From simple rituals to more elaborate ceremonies, these rituals will help you navigate the retrograde period with intention and grace.
Mandalas and Coloring Pages
Immerse yourself in the calming and meditative practice of coloring with 18 unique mandalas and other therapeutic designs. These pages are not just for fun—they’re a tool for mindfulness, relaxation, and connecting with your inner self.
As you work through these pages, remember that Mercury Retrograde is not a time to fear but an opportunity for profound inner work. By setting intentions, engaging in shadow work, journaling, and embracing your creativity, you’ll emerge from this period with greater clarity, resilience, and self-awareness.
Keep this workbook close as you navigate future Mercury Retrogrades, revisiting the exercises and prompts as needed. Share your journey with others, and continue to explore the depths of your mind and spirit. Remember, your mental health is a lifelong journey, and this workbook is just one tool in your toolkit!
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