David England

Psychotherapy for Soul

“I am a constantly evolving human being.” (Client, quoted with permission)

A client reached this realisation after several months of Psychotherapy for Soul.

His words succinctly summarise what Psychotherapy for Soul is about:

• Evolving as a human being.
• Expanding our Soul – Expanding our lived experience of being who we are.
• Experiencing a life ever more fruitful, more abundant, more meaningful, more fulfilled, and with more vitality.

Healing Past Traumas

A diminishing of Soul begins in childhood:

• Some of us suffer trauma through acts of physical or sexual violence against us or severe neglect, resulting in complex psychological needs.
• Many of us suffer from the lack of loving care and regard that we need, and we may even feel untouched by love.
• Even the best of those who care for us have lapses, moments of inattention, times of sadness, grief, pain, sickness, anger, or preoccupation – just being human. With an infant’s finely tuned sensibility – an infant for whom the only time is now – each lapse is a wound to Soul.

The impact of such traumas, the wounding and diminishing of Soul, carries over into adulthood. Then, we may suffer anxiety, panic attacks, sadness, depression, low self-confidence or self-esteem or self-worth, troubled relationships, whatever diminishes our lived experience of being who we are.

Psychotherapy for Soul is about healing such childhood traumas and restoring Soul, to help us find the path towards a more vital, fruitful, abundant, meaningful, and fulfilled life.

Visioning the Future

Psychotherapy for Soul is equally about the future. There are times when we begin to feel there must be more in life than we are experiencing, more joy, love, fulfilment, the realisation of whom we truly are.

Psychotherapy for Soul can be exciting, enriching and transforming – a catalyst for profound change in our experience of being alive :

• By growing as a person and finding qualities in ourselves we didn’t know were there.
• By discovering and realising our potentiality more and more.
• By gaining insight into our unique purpose, the meaning of our life, and the values which inform and inspire it.

Our life can be a journey of self-realisation and joy, ever more vital, fruitful, abundant, meaningful, and fulfilled.

My Psychotherapy Practice

At the heart of psychotherapy is the personal, professional, confidential, therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. My role is provide a safe environment in which you can explore your life experience and the issues which trouble you. During regular individual 50-minute sessions, we work together on whatever issues you choose to explore.

I have practised as a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist for 25 years, having trained at The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London. During the last ten years, I have studied the ancient healing practice of Shamanism, having trained at Eagle’s Wing College of Contemporary Shamanism.

I have also written a book ‘Soulfulness’ in which I describe how a contemporary form of Shamanism can be integrated into a mainstream psychotherapy practice like mine. From this work, I have developed Psychotherapy for Soul, incorporating a wealth of Shamanic thought and practice:

• Shamanic Psychology: The profound wisdom embodied in the Medicine Wheel – the wheel of health and wholeness – which illuminates many aspects of human existence and human frailty.
• Shamanic Practice: Once widespread, these are empathic, gentle, and relaxed techniques serving the restoring and expanding of Soul.

Couple Therapy

Couple therapy can help by providing time away from home in a neutral, welcoming and safe environment, where you, the couple, can explore your difficulties, and where you can be helped to clarify how you think, feel, and act in your relationship.