Psychotherapy, ψυχή [psychē]  θεραπεία [therapeia], 

is the reverent tending of the soul’s experience in embodied life. 

The soul itself cannot be broken, but through the body and the mind, we experience both wounding and healing.

A psychotherapist is trained to engage in many psychological tasks. Yet the most essential takes shape as two energetic movements. First is the holding of a field of empathic resonance and attunement with a client, where safety and connection are felt, and trust within and between the therapist and the client deepens. Second is the gentle raising of the vibrational field to the increasingly higher levels of frequencies, such as courage, willingness, acceptance, reason, loving-kindness, joy, and peace, where psychological blocks can soften and be worked through. In this way, healing emerges from within, in its own timing and rhythm.

Healing involves feeling the pain of separation and brokenness, opening to the grace of renewal that is the mystery by which life restores itself, and surrendering to the alchemy that transforms suffering into compassion, scar into wisdom. Healing can only be experienced in the present, neither in the past nor in the future. There is nothing to be fixed, just remembering to be whole again.

In the spirit of mystics, poets, and inter-faith contemplatives, the wound is a crack that allows the Light to enter. When the façade is finally shuttered, what is revealed has never been broken.

Our deepest pain and suffering can become a gateway through which the light of the soul permeates more fully into the body and our presence.