1st Edition
The Awakened Therapist Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy in Gestalt Therapy
Part 1: Conscious Awareness and the Therapeutic Container 1. Resting in Awareness 2. Understanding Levels of Awareness 3. Awareness of Cultural Lenses 4. Spirituality and Subtle Energy 5. Skills for Holding a Sacred Container Part 2: Contact 6. Contact, the Nervous System, and Spiritual Alignment 7. Deepening into Contact 8. Resonance and Polarity 9. Mapping the Client’s Inner World Part 3: Deep Transformation 10. Creativity and Transformation 11. Working with Polarities 12. Working with an Unfinished Situation 13. Working with Different Contact Boundary Disturbances 14. Transpersonal Parts Work 15. Working with Dreams and Other Non-Ordinary States 16. Spiritual Self-Care
Biography
Harmony Kwiker, MA, LPC, is a visiting instructor at Naropa University serving as lead gestalt faculty. She is the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, where she teaches the art of transpersonal counseling.
“The Awakened Therapist is a visionary exploration, shedding light on often overlooked aspects of therapist consciousness and energetic attunement within the healing process. Through a transpersonal gestalt perspective, Harmony Kwiker offers invaluable insights and practical guidance for therapists, illustrating how heightened awareness shapes the therapeutic encounter.”
Katie Asmus, MA, LPC, BMP, founder of The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute
"The Awakened Therapist is a must-read for new and seasoned therapists who want to discover the healing potential of transpersonal gestalt counseling. Harmony has offered us a clear and profound account of how to stay connected to our true nature as we hold space for clients."
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, author of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook and The Complex PTSD Workbook
“The Awakened Therapist is a marvelous book that shows therapists how to come from awake awareness in their work and how to foster this awareness in their clients. There is no book for therapists on this topic that illuminates in such depth and detail exactly how to conduct therapy from this paradigm.”
Susan Campbell, PhD, author of Getting Real and From Triggered to Tranquil
