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How Alternative Transpersonal Counselling and essential oils can help

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:09:05 GMT

Alternative transpersonal approach and essential oils. An Alternative path to psychologist and psychology.

Life can sometimes feel overwhelming. Many of us struggle with complex challenges like depression, anxiety, or burnout. These issues are not just ‘in your head’; they affect your entire being: your energy, your body, and your spirit. A growing number of people are turning to holistic approaches. Two powerful tools that work together are alternative transpersonal counselling and essential oils.

About alternative transpersonal counselling

Standard therapy often focuses on your thoughts, emotions, and behaviour (called ego or mask in deep psychology). Transpersonal holistic counselling goes a step further. It is sometimes called the 'Fourth Force' in psychology because it includes the dimension of spirit and soul. This approach believes that you are much more than your current problems.

It looks beyond the everyday conceptual identity to help you connect with your deepest sense of purpose, creativity, and inner strength. By addressing the underlying questions like:

"Who am I? What is my purpose?"

Transpersonal holistic counselling helps you move past feelings of fear and burnout by finding meaning and wholeness. This process is about empowering the Self, which then allows the mind and body to recover.

The power of essential oils

While Transpersonal alternative approach works on the inner self, Essential Oils offer immediate, tangible support to your physical and emotional state. These concentrated plant extracts are powerful because they interact directly with your brain's emotional center. When you inhale an oil, its tiny molecules travel to the limbic system in your brain, the area responsible for memory, stress, and emotions.

This is why a simple scent can immediately change your mood or bring back a memory. For instance, calming oils can help slow your heart rate and reduce cortisol (the stress hormone), which helps with fear and stress.

Uplifting citrus oils can gently boost mood and energy for sadness, and grounding oils can help stabilize your nervous system when you feel depleted from burnout.

Cultivating restorative synergy

The true power lies in using both methods together. Imagine you are using a Transpersonal approach to understand the root cause of your fear based struggles. If you simultaneously diffuse an essential oil like Lavender (known for its calming properties) or Bergamot (known for emotional stability), you are supporting the deep psychological work with a physical anchor. This combined approach treats the entire person.

The mind and soul are guided toward purpose and insight, while the body and nervous system are calmed and supported by Essential oils.

For simple use, if you are experiencing fear or difficulty sleeping, try diffusing Lavender in your bedroom or rubbing a drop onto your temples. If you are dealing with burnout and fatigue, inhaling Peppermint directly from the bottle can offer a quick energy lift. For low mood or sadness, diffuse Bergamot or Wild Orange in the morning to brighten your environment.

How transpersonal or psycho-spiritual approach and essential oils are working together

Addressing complex issues like heaviness, lack of energy, fear to take action, feeling exhausted, or numb, requires a comprehensive strategy. By looking beyond the surface and integrating the deep self-work of transpersonal approach with the immediate, soothing support of essential oils, you can start a holistic journey toward true peace and self realization.

What are the benefits?

Unlike quick-fix solutions, the combination helps identify the root causes of distress (psychological or spiritual trauma) while the oils offer the necessary physical calm for that challenging inner work to take place.

The scent of an essential oil can become a powerful, positive trigger. Using an oil during deep inner work or meditation anchors the feeling of peace or insight to that specific aroma. This allows you to quickly return to a regulated state simply by inhaling the oil when fear flares up.

By addressing both the profound need for meaning (alternative transpersonal counselling) and the immediate needs of the stressed body (essential oils), this approach guides a person toward a state of lasting integration, reducing the likelihood of recurring burnout or fear cycles.

Why are Transpersonal and Kabbalah stronger together?

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:03:09 GMT

Both Transpersonal psychology and Kabbalah work with the same territory—human consciousness beyond the ego—but they approach it from different directions

Transpersonal psychology and Kabbalah complement each other because they both explore human experience beyond the personal level—yet one comes from a psychological, experiential perspective, and the other from a structured spiritual tradition

I am a transpersonal practitioner and Kabbalah teacher with over 25 years of international experience. I offer one-to-one guidance and group work focused on personal transformation, consciousness development, and soul integration. I am the creator of the Dance of the Soul method, an integrative approach that combines transpersonal psychology, symbolic work, and embodied practice.

Transpersonal Practitioner and Kabbalah Teacher

Modern Western psychology primarily focuses on understanding thoughts, emotions, and behavior, often working with personal history and cognitive or emotional patterns.

Transpersonal psychology expands this perspective by including altered states of consciousness, inner meaning, and the human search for wholeness beyond the personal self.

Kabbalah goes even deeper, offering a structured understanding of the soul and its development. It explores the underlying patterns of existence, the relationship between the inner and outer worlds, and the process of transformation at a spiritual level.

My work integrates these perspectives, supporting people not only in understanding themselves psychologically, but also in connecting with a deeper sense of purpose, alignment, and inner transformation.

Kabbalah: a broader, holistic perspective

Kabbalah, on the other hand, does not view a person as an isolated individual, but rather as part of a greater whole that must remain in harmony. In Kabbalah, purpose and connection are essential. According to this ancient wisdom, every person is created with the desire and purpose to grow, by receiving, giving, connecting, and understanding.

When we give meaningful expression to this purpose, we can achieve fulfillment and continue developing ourselves.

This is important to remember: in Kabbalah, all experiences have a meaning and a higher purpose. This not only brings a sense of peace, but also an increased awareness that allows individual experiences to be placed in a broader, more meaningful context.

Kabbalah continues where psychology stops

Transpersonal psychology and Kabbalah work strongly together because they address the same fundamental question: how human beings evolve beyond the personal self. Transpersonal psychology offers tools to explore expanded states of consciousness and inner experience, while Kabbalah provides a structured understanding of the soul and its development. Combined, they allow not only access to deeper dimensions of experience, but also a clear framework to integrate those experiences into meaningful personal transformation.

Is Psychology or Kabbalah an option?

While modern psychology focuses on the mind and behavior, my approach integrates transpersonal psychology and Kabbalah to work with consciousness, meaning, and the deeper dimension of the soul.

Would you like to benefit from this yourself?

In my work, w e explore the deeper patterns behind life experiences, working with both psychological understanding and spiritual insight. This allows for a more integrative process—one that includes the mind, the body, and the dimension of the soul

Navigating life crisis: Transpersonal & Kabbalah Approach and Essential Oils

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:47:16 GMT

Using essential oils when going through stressful times

In my work, essential oils are used as a supportive tool within transpersonal holistic counselling, helping to deepen awareness, emotional connection, and embodied experience.

What do essential oils do?

Essential oils often have a lovely scent, but that's not all they do. They influence the limbic system in the brain—the part that regulates emotions and memories. Essential oils as alternative healing– are supportive tools that affect the Nervous System contributing to the psychotherapeutic process that words alone may not reach.

Clinical studies show essential oils as a complementary way to support mental and emotional health.

The use of essential oils can happen in different ways. They can be inhaled, which activates the limbic system as quickly as possible. They can also be absorbed through the skin, often during a massage, to perform their healing work. In a holistic approach, essential oils are used in other ways as well, primarily to promote mental and physical well-being.

Different essential oils, each with its own effect

There are various essential oils that can be used with transpersonal councelling. The complete list is too long to include here, but to give you an idea, I've selected a few. Lavender oil, for example, is well-known for helping with stress, sleep issues, and fear. Chamomile oil falls into the same category but also provides a sense of calm.

Ylang-ylang is less common and is used to dampen feelings of anger, a purpose also served by nutmeg oil. Bergamot oil is another lesser-known oil that provides an uplifting feeling and reduces fear, anger and worryness.

It's crucial that the correct essential oils are used based on the specific problems that need to be processed or addressed. With my knowledge of essential oils and their effects, we can make a treatment plan, to enhance the effect of a transformational process. If you'd like to know more, please do not hesitate to contact me .

Transpersonal Counselling, Kabbalah and Aromatherapy:

Scent has a direct and immediate effect on our inner state. It can evoke memories, emotions, and subtle shifts in awareness without the need for analysis. When used intentionally, essential oils can support the counselling process by helping clients access deeper layers of feeling, presence, and inner imagery.

Trauma: The Impact of Past Experiences

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:39:48 GMT

Working with deep emotional patterns

Guiding the processing of a trauma aiming to personal transformation

I work with people who wish to explore and integrate the impact of past experiences and emotional patterns as part of their personal development. My approach is grounded in transpersonal work and focuses on awareness, meaning, and inner transformation, rather than diagnosis or treatment. This process supports a deeper sense of clarity, integration, and alignment.

What is trauma?

Trauma is a wound that goes through all the layers of the Being: the physical body, the mind, the emotions and the Soul. Sometimes it produces unbearable noticeable pain, but sometimes it can be asleep and the person can feel resolved. However, undoubtedly the person feels that something is wrong in her life, since she finds him/herself in recurring conflicts with herself or in relationships with family, work or life in general.

A trauma has deep roots, which direct our decisions and the way we carry out our lives. Those decisions can be very positive and constructive, but most of the time they tend to be negative and destructive: such as choosing toxic relationships, substance addiction, self-sabotage, low self-esteem, emotional impulsiveness, etc.

How is trauma manifested in a person's life?

In conflict situations, traumatized people feel powerless to resolve the situation. They may experience fear, and alienation or the person may become hardened and reticent. Traumatized people avoid situations in life that may be related to the experienced trauma, this changes behavior, thinking and acting. Some people avoid places, thoughts, feelings, conversations, etc. Others avoid close emotional contact and suffer from feelings of guilt and helplessness.

When a trauma has not been healed, it can even lead to physical illness whose root is difficult to trace.

My work focuses on exploring and integrating the deeper emotional patterns that arise from past experiences and trauma, supporting personal development and inner transformation

Rather than focusing on diagnosis or sympto m reduction, my work supports a process of integration—where past experiences and trauma are explored in the context of personal meaning, growth, and inner development.

Alternative Approach

Mon, 30 May 2022 14:12:56 GMT

Transpersonal & Kabbalah Approach

Body, Consciousness, and Symbolic Spiritual Dimensions

Kabbalah and Transpersonal Counselling, is this alternative type of therapy good for me? is it really alternative healing? when looking for an alternative healing therapist, you need to consider that within alternative healing, therapists assume that health comes from a harmonious balance between body, mind and soul, therefore to maintain this balance, alternative healing methods are approached from a non-ordinary perspective, aiming to awaken the self-healing capacity innate in each of us.

In today's world full of challenges and total sensory overload, active stress management and healing are more important than ever. Trauma, unprocessed emotional stress, sadness, pain, etc. have a significant impact and limit the quality of life and freedom of action, leading often to psychosomatic complaints that can be addressed by alternative healing, also called alternative therapy.

My alternative approach: as a transpersonal practitioner with over 20 years of international experience, I integrate the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, transpersonal studies, and a background in academic psychology. I guide individuals in working with the deeper impact of past experiences and emotional patterns, supporting processes of integration, personal development, and inner alignment.

Alternative Holistic Transpersonal Counselling can help with:

Trauma
Fears
Grief, pain and sadness
Inner restlessness
Stress caused by life events
Stress and uncertainties due to life's questions
Among others

In my practice for alternative counselling, I offer the following forms of alternative methodologies:

Transpersonal and Kabbalah approach
Meditation & Breathing techniques
Creative tools
Reiki
Balancing of the chakras
Stress management

Transpersonal Approach

Transpersonal psychology is a holistic approach that deals with the relationship to wholeness and has close ties to the spiritual. Transpersonal Psychology is a form of Alternative therapy or alternative healing that reaches deeper than the ego-mind consciousness. The therapy has characteristics of conventional psychology, spirituality and ancient wisdom. Three important elements of transpersonal therapies are: 'being', 'recognizing' and 'doing'. Transpersonal psychology is a method of better understanding man's relationship to himself, and the spiritual within a therapeutic context.

Kabbalah & Alternative Counselling

Kabbalah is a body of knowledge that unites philosophy, psychology, science and mysticism to understand our human experience and our relationship with divinity. Therefore, Kabbalah is constituted as a powerful tool for the understanding our life experiences, including our traumatic experiences. It helps us to know the relationship between mental or physical problems in relation to the needs of our soul.

With this wisdom and insights, it is possible to embark on the path of change. In my practice, I have been working with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life for many years as an analytical tool to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between the mind, body, emotions, the soul, and ultimately the Spirit.

Meditation & Breathwork

Meditation and breathwork are used as an effective way of transformation. It teaches you to relax the muscles naturally and to release inner tensions. This makes room to allow yourself to overcome psychosomatic problems, increase self-knowledge, and expand awareness.

Creative Tools

Artistic expressions can be used in alternative way of processing trauma and stored emotions in the body, they allow us to gently approach to the core of psychological conflict. So, creative alternative techniques help with revealing unconscious elements from a person's life story, releasing repressed thoughts and emotions. Both the body and the mind are stimulated to process what is unresolved through an intuitive form of expression.

Aromatherapy supporting the journey

Since 2015 I am a certified Aroma touch Massage, using 100% pure essential oils.

This form of alternative approach is relaxing, invigorating, and strengthens the immune system. Aromatherapy is an effective way to support any inner process of development.

Spiritual Inner Transformation Process

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:59:18 GMT

Integration and Alignment, by Paola Bobadilla

Soul Deep Inner Work

Many of the sufferings that we experience in the body and in the mind come from the disconnection to our Essence, to our Soul, to our Spiritual Being. The disconnection is caused by a lack of knowledge of our true nature, of our true identity. We develop as humans by elaborating mental ideas about who we are, until some suffering or serious illness shows us that what we thought we were is only a false egoic identity that does not help us heal or evolve. Then we seek spiritual healing, when realizing that our human mental capacity is not capable of bringing us to a healthy and liberated state of Being.

My approach focuses on processes of inner transformation and integration, where psychological insight and deeper spiritual perspectives come together to support a more coherent and aligned way of being.

Holistic Spiritual Approach

My approach is holistic and transpersonal, integrating Kabbalah, transpersonal studies, and a background in psychology. It works across different levels of experience—emotional, psychological, and deeper aspects of consciousness—supporting a process of integration and inner transformation.

By bringing together psychological insight and spiritual structure, the work creates a space where personal development is connected to meaning, alignment, and a deeper understanding of oneself.

Kabbalah & Transpersonal Methodologies, a unique fusion

My work is expressed through in-depth Kabbalistic analysis through the Tree of Life, meditation, and the use of essential oils, enriched by my own methodology Dance of the Soul. It is a holistic and transpersonal approach that integrates Kabbalah, transpersonal studies, and a background in psychology, supporting processes of awareness, integration, and inner transformation.

My Path

I am a Chilean-trained psychologist and transpersonal practitioner with over 20 years of international experience. Since 2007, my work has evolved beyond conventional psychology into a holistic approach integrating Kabbalah, meditation, and body-based practices.

As a direct disciple of Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (England), and Mario Saban (Spain) I have dedicated over two decades to the study of mystical traditions and inner transformation. I support individuals who are ready to work through trauma and limiting patterns as a path toward deeper self-awareness and spiritual growth.

Heart-centered approach, a path for spiritual growth

I have developed a holistic, integrative and heart-centered approach to creating more conscious path to wellness and inner balance.

My path and many experiences have encouraged and convinced me to look at things from a non-ordinary perspective. Each part of my journey has given me tools to expand my understanding of human nature, psychological processes and their influence on our internal and external realities.

My approach provides:

In-depth understanding and exploration of psychological conflicts, using the Kabbalistic diagram of the Tree of Life.

Exploration of unconscious patterns and components of inner conflicts, trauma, physical pain and undesirable customs and behaviors.

Dream analysis using Jungian Art therapy technique.

Meditation as a tool for deepening self-knowledge and expanding consciousness, and as a natural transformation method.

Creative techniques to help people to achieve emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration.

Representation of psychological conflicts using Jungian archetypal symbology.

Cleansing and rebalancing of the aura and chakras using the Hebrew pendulum.

Reconnection with the energy of the guardian angel, using the sacred knowledge of the 72 Divine Names.

Cleansing of the physical and emotional body using ancient kabbalistic meditation techniques

Use of natural oils (Doterra) and their application through Aromatouch Technique, to support and enhance the process.

Transpersonal Kabbalah Center: A Holistic Practice

My practice is based in The Hague, where I offer private sessions both in person and online to an international clientele. Each process is deeply individualized.

This work is for those who are ready to take full responsibility for their inner life—to meet their history, transform their patterns, and step into a more conscious, expanded way of being.

Alternative Holistic Practice by Paola Bobadilla

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:50:16 GMT

Transpersonal Kabbalah Approach

Alternative Practice The Hague

I am graduated in Psychology and Licensed in Psychological Sciences from University in Chile. And further I’ve studied at schools of Transpersonal Psychology and Mysticism in Ireland, England, Canada, The Netherlands, Spain, Peru and Chili. I’m also a student of a Master in Kabbalah at the School of Kabbalah and Psychology of Barcelona, and I am part of the Transpersonal Therapist training course at The Transpersonal Institute of Ireland. Through the years I’ve worked in multiple countries. Currently, I’m working as therapist for expats as an Alternative Therapist in Mental Health Care in Wassenaar. I’m certified according to the Dutch Wkkgz quality standards.

The alternative mental health therapy I offer, is aimed at developing or increasing conscious mental health. The therapies I use for this are aimed at a deep analysis of subjective identity, analysis of dreams, dance-art-play therapy, Jungian archetypal symbology, breathing/relaxation techniques, and therapeutic meditation.

The alternative mental health therapy with which I help you is a loving method in which there is a lot of room for creativity, playfulness, and self-examination. During the trajectory you follow, I do not use clinical psychiatric diagnoses. I guide you and encourage you to look at conflicts and find their meaning. From there, the way is cleared to the deepest inner source and the discovery of the Self. This ultimately leads to recovery and maintains mental balance.

The following Alternative methods is offered:

Creative techniques
Transpersonal approach
Kabbalah and the Tree of Life
Meditation & Breathing techniques
Stress management

Dance of the Soul

Dance of the Soul™ is my original integrative method, developed over nearly two decades of clinical experience, transpersonal study, and spiritual practice.

It is an embodied approach to transformation that works beyond the limits of verbal processing. My work engages the body as a gateway to the unconscious, allowing deeply held emotional patterns and trauma to surface, move, and integrate.

Rooted in transpersonal psychology, informed by the structure of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and supported by meditative awareness, this method creates a bridge between psychological healing and spiritual expansion.

Transpersonal Approach

Transpersonal psychology integrates spiritual wisdom to modern psychology. Mind and body transform when the Soul and the Spirit are integrated in the process. To recognize who you really are, you have to push the door in.

The path of life can ask a lot of us because it is necessary to break inherited and socialized conditionings and feel the encompassing and the underlying. When you begin to pause, enter the silence, let go of ready-made concepts, allow for more mindfulness, openness, and love, you become more permeable to the essence, the inner voice, and the life-promoting potential.

Transpersonal & Kabbalah

Are you still on your one 'right' path, or have you lost sight of the goal along the way? Through the wisdom of Kabbalah, we learn reasons for difficulties and illnesses. With this knowledge, processes can be changed, and we recognize the deep intention on which we have based this life. For 15 years I have been using the Kabbalist Tree of Life as a tool for analysis, to help people visualize their mental schema with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of their mental organization and its relationship with the body, emotions, Soul and ultimately their Spirit.

Meditation & Breathing exercises for stress management and relief

Meditation & Breathing techniques are a form of alternative mental health therapy. Meditation exercises and breath work are used as an effective way of transformation. This form of therapy teaches you to relax the muscles in a very natural way and to release inner tensions. This makes room to allow your own self, to overcome psychosomatic problems, to increase self-knowledge and to expand awareness.

Creative Techniques

CTh are a form of alternative therapy that releases repressed thoughts and emotions by playing them out. For a child, play plays a crucial role in his development. CTh is a method of expressing inner conflicts in a creative way, an invitation to raise painful thoughts and feelings, where they can be processed.

Stress & anxiety management

Since 2015 I am a certified Aroma touch Massage Therapist. Aroma touch Massage is an approach to applying natural oils along the back, ears, hands and foot, where all nerve endings of organs are found. This form of alternative mental health therapy is generating, protective and immune-boosting and generates balance between body and mind. It fits within a therapy that is aimed at removing anxiety and dealing with stress.

Do you have any questions? I’m very happy to answer them.

Paola Bobadilla

Call & WhatsApp: +31648482097

Email: explore@paolabobadilla.eu

Look for reimbursements and possibilities from insurers on the following pages:

For more info about insurance reimbursement: https://catcomplementair.nl/soorten-therapie/

For more info about insurance: https://www.catcomplementair.nl/vergoeding-zorgverzekeraars/

Rules for Psychologist and psychotherapist in The Netherlands

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:21:44 GMT

Why you can't find me under the title’s ‘psychologist’ and ‘psychotherapist’

Dutch rules for using the titles: 'psychologist and psychotherapist'

A piece of Dutch history

Psychological treatments are now very logical and normal. Yet it was only at the end of the 19th century that psychological treatments were carried out for the first time in the Netherlands. A little later, at the beginning of the 20th century, the offer was limited to psychoanalysis. It was performed by psychiatrists in private practice and were reserved for a small elite of affluent patients. This met with criticism from other psychiatrists. They wanted to make psychotherapy accessible to the general population. This led in 1930 to the Dutch Association for Psychotherapy, and in 1940 to the Institute for Medical Psychotherapy.

It was not until almost fifty years later, in 1986, that the profession of psychotherapist was recognized by law in the Netherlands. The Individual Health Care Professions Act (BIG) regulates the training and professional activity of health professions in the Netherlands. Therapists must have a BIG registration to be able to perform their profession. But only therapists who have been trained according to the BIG requirements are admitted to the BIG register and all they are allowed to call themselves psychotherapists and perform the profession under the name 'psychotherapist'.

First-line psychologists

A form that occurs almost exclusively in the Netherlands are the first-line psychologists. First-line psychologists are trained according to state guidelines. They must be certified and registered. They should only diagnose and treat mild cases. If a patient falls outside the care field of the primary care psychologist, a referral to a psychotherapist or psychiatrist follows. First-line psychologists are a first, low-threshold point of contact and often work together with a general practitioner or company doctor. The field of care of the primary care psychologist consists of treating common problems such as complicated grief, pain without physical findings, sleep disorders or anxiety.

Client-oriented therapies according to a trajectory

Under the name 'psychotherapist', around 5,000 therapists work in the Netherlands who offer a wide range of therapies, including: client-oriented therapy, relationship and family therapy, problem-solving training, short-term therapies, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, psychoanalysis, and psychodynamic procedures.

For people who need psychological care or want to turn to psychological care, the care is structured according to a trajectory:

In case of complaints, people can first turn to the general practitioner, the company doctor or a first-line psychologist.

Mild to moderate psychological problems fall under the basic mental health care. This can consist of: Conversations with, among others, a psychologist, psychotherapist, or psychiatrist.

Serious complaints psychological complaints and psychiatric disorders that fall under the care of psychiatrists.

In addition, people are of course always free to visit a free therapist themselves, but this care is not always reimbursed.

'BIG' is the difference

My practice is focused on transpersonal therapy. My therapeutic approach is integrative, creative, and expansive. I use techniques such as deep analysis of subjective identity, analysis of dreams, dance-art-play therapy, Jungian archetypal symbology, breathing/relaxation techniques, and therapeutic meditation.

In order to be able to carry out my work in the Netherlands, I am accredited as a Transpersonal Therapist who meets the Dutch Wkkgz quality standards in that capacity. I am also CAT-accredited for this.

As the largest professional organization in the alternative field, CAT has a responsibility in guaranteeing quality and in structuring the alternative sector. For this recognition, a therapist must at least meet the Profile Reimbursable CAT therapists so that the treatments are partially eligible for reimbursement from the additional package of the health insurers.

As a quality monitor, CAT guarantees the professionalism of the alternative professionals and ensures that the professional knowledge has a high level that remains up to date.

Dance movement therapy is for people of any age

Dance of the Soul is accessible to people of any age, regardless their physical condition. It can be practiced both individually, or in a group. Group work offers a series of sessions (e.g., 10) on a specific topic. There is no choreography to follow. A person dances with himself, within a safe and supportive setting.

It is effective for people with different abilities.

Individual sessions on dance-movement therapy can be reimbursed by insurance companies. But group sessions are not.

Dutch professional treatment-code: 24513 - body-centred psychotherapy treatment

For more info on professional treatment-code: https://catcomplementair.nl/soorten-therapie/

For more information about insurance and reimbursement: https://www.catcomplementair.nl/vergoeding-zorgverzekeraars/

My own path

I got my bachelor's degree in psychology and a degree in psychotherapy at the University of Science and Information of Santiago Chile in the year 2000.
I immediately began my professional practice at a psychiatric hospital in the City of Talca Chile.

But after a couple of years of working with clinical cases I realised that clinical psychotherapeutic techniques learnt at University were not enough to help patients to overcome their mental struggles or psychological disorders.

It was then when I decided to move to London (2006) where I found the School of Kabbalah. A school of mysticism and human development where I received teachings on transpersonal psychology and mystical understanding of human nature.

Those years of study radically changed my therapeutic approach, which further was enriched by studies at several schools of mysticism and transpersonal psychology in England, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Perú, Chile and The Netherlands.

However the intense training and experience that I've got are different from that promoted by BIG (Professions in Individual Health Care). Therefore, as you now understand, I cannot call myself a psychologist or psychotherapist in The Netherlands without the BIG-registration.

Dance of the Soul

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:59:06 GMT

Dance therapy is a way to uplift the body, mind, and soul.

Dance movement therapy | Dance of the soul

Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a form of therapy in which movement is used to get closer to yourSelf. On a physical level, dance therapy helps to release stress, relax, change moods, and enrich the daily experience with not "intellectual or mental" elements, but physical, emotional, and spiritual.

In general, dance therapy is liberating and good for both physical and mental health. Dance movement therapy is especially useful if you want to achieve stress reduction. In addition, the physical component of DMT provides increased muscle strength, coordination, mobility, and reduced muscle tone and thus promotes physical health. In general, dance therapy promotes self-awareness, self-esteem, and a sense of security and freedom is experienced to express feelings and emotions from movement.

Dance of the Soul is a type of Dance Movement therapy

Body and mind are connected and they influence each other. Movement generates body awareness and with it an integration of body-mind-spirit is promoted and encouraged. Aspects of the personality and elements of a trauma are manifested in the body through unconscious processes, creating psycho-emotional blockages. Dance of the Soul is a powerful tool for the healing of those blockages.

Through conscious movement a person reconnects with her body, learning to breathe, and listening to feelings, emotions and sensations awakened by the music. Dance movement technique mobilizes, channels and transmutes psycho-emotional complexes using spontaneous and non-stereotyped movement. So the body becomes a vehicle for psycho-emotional transformation; increasing body awareness, managing and expressing emotions, and strengthening integration of body-mind-spirit.

Dance movement therapy that I teach is a personal combination of different forms of dance and movement that I have come to know and practice as a therapist during my life. It is a unique mix that I have called Dance of the Soul.

Dance of the Soul is a healing (sacred) dance. It is a form of dance movement therapy in which I guide people to place themselves in the centre of their own universe. I guide people to enter a state of being in which with the help of music and movement, the body connects to the Soul.

Dance movement therapy, free encounter with your Self

Traditional psychotherapy is characterized by 'talking about problems'. However, there are more opportunities to express yourself. Dance movement therapy is a – if you like – wordless encounter with yourself and a way to fully express your inner experience.

Dance movement therapy is for people of any age

It is effective for people with different abilities.

Individual sessions on dance-movement therapy can be reimbursed by insurance companies. But group sessions are not.

Dutch professional treatment-code: 24513 - body-centred psychotherapy treatment

For more info on professional treatment-code: https://catcomplementair.nl/soorten-therapie/

For more information about insurance and reimbursement: https://www.catcomplementair.nl/vergoeding-zorgverzekeraars/

About Paola

Since 2000 I have been a licensed psychologist. I then further my studies and became a postgraduate in transpersonal psychotherapy in 2008. Currently, I’m accredited in the Netherlands as a transpersonal psychotherapist. My practice is in Wassenaar. Most of my clients are expats (english&spanish speakers) living in Wassenaar and surroundings, such as The Hague and Leiden. I have worked with Dance of the Soul in individual and group sessions at schools, health and academic institutions in Chile, England, and the Netherlands.

What is Transpersonal Pyschology?

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:26:47 GMT

What is Transpersonal Pyschology?

Transpersonal Psychology – An overview

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”

Carl Gustav Jung

The term “transpersonal” was first used in the year 1905 by Williams James and means to experience beyond (trans) the sense of Ego.

Transpersonal Psychology has its roots in the humanistic psychology movement of the 1950s and 60s and was first popularized by the American psychologists Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) and Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), both of them influenced by the extraordinary work done by the Swiss analyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). In this century Freudian Psychoanalysis and Behaviourism were dominating the scientific and therapeutic field, in which the focus of therapy was mainly on observable and rational aspects of human mind. The leaders of the humanistic movement criticized that the current school of psychology left out some unique human qualities such as spirituality, creativity and art. Therefore, they integrated alternative methods such as extreme non-ordinary (trance) states of consciousness and art into therapy.

As a subfield of psychology, Transpersonal Psychology integrates the transcendent and spiritual aspects of human experience and draws a more holistic perspective of Self - development. The integrative approach goes beyond conventional methods with the central aim of supporting the individual development of each person such as understanding the Self beyond the Ego mind identity. In the transpersonal therapeutic process, a variety of different techniques such as meditation, visualisation, and imaging, systemic trance, art- therapy and dream analysis, among others, are used. During this journey the therapist leads the person-patient to get to know the unconscious parts of the Self, until they are conscious and available to be acknowledged.

Aspects of human consciousness according to Ken Wilber include dimensions of the Body, the Mind, the Soul and the Spirit as integrative aspects of the Human Self.

Going through this transformative development of the personality, the patient learns to understand his/her beliefs and sense of self, and create a healthy relationship with his/her self.... therefore with his/her social environment. In contrast to other therapies, Transpersonal therapy does not make use of clinical diagnostics but tries to understand personal crises as part of life, which can help us learn and find new meanings to our Life/Soul Journey.

The voyage of discovering your full potential

In transpersonal psychology, there is not only one way of psychological thinking that has been accepted. Instead, everything that belongs to the human mind and spirit is studied and explored. To come to your individual full potential many different disciplines can be involved in the transpersonal psychology therapy, such as: philosophy, health theories, art therapy, social theory, cognitive science, and various spiritual aspects.

Transpersonal psychology may coexist with traditional psychology programs but as you can see, it is much broader. Mindfulness, mindfulness meditation, but also dance therapy and therapeutic meditation and breathwork and play therapy and therapy that involves working with guided images and visualizations are examples of therapies that are becoming increasingly popular as a subfield within transpersonal psychology.

"Transpersonal psychologists seek to integrate timeless wisdom with modern Western psychology and translate spiritual principles into science-based, contemporary language. Transpersonal psychology focuses on the full spectrum of human psychospiritual development — from our deepest wounds and needs to the existential crisis of man, to the most transcendent capacities of our consciousness." Mariana Caplan. Psychotherapist and author.

Sources

Grof, Stanislav, M.D (2008). Brief history of Transpersonal Psychology, International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Volume 27, (46-47)

Grof, S., M.D, Bennet, H.Z. (1993). The Holotropic Mind: The three levels of consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives, Harper San Francisco, (12-13),(83-88)

Wilber, Ken (2000). Integral Psychology. Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy. Shambhala, Boston & London, (1-5), (28-32)