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.
Spiritual Crisis & Awakening
Spiritual emergencies and awakenings can be overwhelming without proper support. This approach helps you navigate these profound experiences by providing both psychological grounding and spiritual context, using cosmic awareness to understand the timing and purpose of your spiritual evolution.
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?
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.
