Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy that incorporates a psychospiritual dimension accounts for and includes the journey of the soul or spirit. If you want to include spirituality in your therapy, need support breaking away from a specific belief, or are going through a spiritual crisis, a TPG therapist can help.

What Is Spirituality?

Spirituality can mean belief in a higher power or an inner healing intelligence, or feeling spiritually connected to nature or the universe. Your spiritual beliefs may align with a traditional religious denomination or follow a more personally patterned quest for meaning in life, or experiences of contact with divinity or the ineffible.

How Does a Therapist Work with Spirituality?

A therapist can respectfully help you explore your personal relationship to spirit or a higher power, as you perceive it. Therapists offer non-directive and non-judgmental support for your spiritual explorations.

A therapist may assist you with the following:

• Exploring the nature of your psychospiritual crisis and your particular response to it
• Empowering you to access your spark of inner divinity or inner healing intelligence
• Encouraging and supporting your capacity for expanded consciousness
• Helping you to develop your personal system of meaning and belief
• Inviting spirit into the psychotherapy space through prayer, trance, meditation, focusing, or energy work, sound or mantra

Do Therapy and Spirituality Clash? 

Traditional psychotherapy focuses on the psychological aspect of a person, but many people also see themselves as spiritual beings. A therapist who integrates spirituality will support your connection with the sacred, honour your access to transpersonal awareness, and help you cultivate your sense of spirit. Such work can be transformational.

 Further Reading

Did you know that intense spiritual experiences are registered physiologically? Learn more about the field of neurotheology.

For further reading on the interrelationship of spiritual and psychological growth.