A Rhythm for Wellbeing

A psychotherapist describes how she integrated cognitive behavioral therapy, gestalt therapy, body therapy, energy healing, and shamanism into a unified theory of healing. The book presents a dialogue between the therapist, a shamanic healer, an academic, and an integrative therapist, as well as an internal dialogue within the therapist herself. Later chapters illustrate the unified theory in practice with individuals and groups. The work is contextualized within internet-based developments in wellbeing and therapeutic practices that draw on diverse cultures.

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Abstract

This book reflects on a journey as a shamanic healer and a psychotherapist, and how the integration of psychotherapy and traditional healing methods emerged. It explores an initial training in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, to gestalt therapy, to body therapy, to energy healing and shamanism, to develop a unified theory. It explores the process by means of a dialogue between a psychotherapist, a shamanic healer, an academic and an integrative therapist. This is placed in a dialogue within the therapist herself. Later chapters give examples of the unified theory in practice, including both individual and in group settings. Opening and closing chapters contextualise the work in the context of developments on the internet in the areas of wellbeing and therapeutic practices drawing on different cultures.