Tuesday, November 25, 2025

How to Integrate Spiritual Tools Into Psychotherapy

The Healing Power of Soul Woven Therapy (Video Trailer) Link to full length podcast interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRq1hnarIk This episode of "Healer Within," hosted by Amy Marohn, Spiritual Hypnotherapist and Metaphysical Healer with Sensorium Hypnosis features Jodi Silverman, a holistic psychotherapist, Reiki Master Teacher, and founder of Journey with Kindred Souls. The discussion details Silverman's "windy" professional journey and her unique integrative practice, Soul Woven Therapy, which successfully merges clinical neuroscience with spiritual energy work to heal trauma and chronic pain. The core theme is the ethical integration of energy practices like Reiki into psychotherapy and the reconciliation between the nervous system and the soul. ________________________________________ Jodi Silverman's Integrative Approach & History • Featured Guest: Jodi Silverman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), holistic psychotherapist, Reiki Master Teacher, and founder of Journey with Kindred Souls. • Mission: To help clients heal relational trauma and chronic pain by restoring regulation and resonance in the nervous system, bridging science and spirit. • Signature Framework: Soul Woven Therapy integrates diverse modalities to help the nervous system find safety so the soul can remember its wholeness: o Polyvagal-Informed Psychotherapy o Brainspotting o Reiki Assisted Psychotherapy (RAP) o Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) o HeartMath Coherence Practices • Professional Journey: Began as a social worker (University of Pennsylvania, 1995), working in community mental health for 23 years, before transitioning to private psychotherapy practice to fully integrate her spiritual curiosity. • Spiritual Awakening: A family vacation to Maui introduced her to Reiki, which provided the first framework for integrating energy into healing work, later leading to studies in EFT, Tarot, and Integrated Energy Techniques. Reiki Assisted Psychotherapy (RAP) • Conceptual Breakthrough: Silverman realized that if clinicians could use controlled substances like Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to access altered states, she could ethically use Reiki to achieve similar therapeutic depth with fewer risks. • RAP Definition: Reiki Assisted Psychotherapy (co-developed with Liz Hyde, based on Dr. Richard Curtin's framework) is using Reiki energy to assist the psychotherapy process, not as a typical spa treatment. • Reiki as Co-Therapist: The energy is intentionally brought into the therapy room, without the client needing to be on a table, to: o Guide the therapist's work and support their own regulation. o Create a frame of coherence in the therapy room. o Shift the client from sympathetic/collapsed (fight/flight/freeze) states into the ventral vagal state (safe, connected, regulated). o Allow clients to access difficult emotions and memories and process them without getting re-traumatized. • Ethical Integration: Significant work was done to address legal and ethical concerns, leading to the terminology of Reiki Assisted Psychotherapy (RAP) to clarify that the core service remains psychotherapy. The Nervous System & The Soul • Core Conflict: Healing is centered on the reconciliation between the nervous system and the soul. o Nervous System's Prerogative: To keep the body alive (survival, often resulting in conflict and dysregulation). o Soul's Prerogative: To grow, evolve, and move toward coherence (wholeness). • Personal Spiritual Practice: Silverman maintains her energy and coherence through daily practices: o Self-Reiki o Recitation of the Five Reiki Precepts ("Just for today, I will not worry; Just for today, I will not anger; Just for today, I'll be grateful for all my blessings; Just for today, I will do my work diligently and with integrity; Just for today, I'll be kind to myself and all things"). • Spiritual Guidance: Her "spirit team" communicates primarily through other people (e.g., through colleagues, clients, or the host's question), as she is more attuned to feeling the energy rather than seeing or hearing it clearly. Connect with Jodi K. Silverman, LCSW, therachihealing.com journeywithkindredsouls.com facebook.com/therachihealing instagram.com/holistichearthealing Do you have an alternative healing practice you'd like to share on Healer Within Podcast? Contact Amy Marohn at amy@sensoriumhypnosis.com Are you on a spiritual healing journey and could benefit from further support? Visit https://ift.tt/CyY3OZr

from Amy Marohn – Spiritual Hypnosis & Soul Healing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYzV2CwuD4

No comments:

Post a Comment

WHEN AN ADDICT DIES: FINDING PEACE & RECLAIMING INNOCENCE

In this deeply personal episode, Amy the Hypnotist shares her raw, authentic journey through the complex grief of losing a loved one to addi...