Can The Shamans Heart Program or HSI be used like psychotherapy or counseling to treat mental health issues like depression, anxiety, addictions, or concerns such as relationship problems?
Most people are led to spiritual practice, shamanic work, and other alternative healing approaches as a result of emotional or psychological pain, or other challenging life circumstances. Some people have experienced poor results with psychotherapy and/or feel that the diagnostic systems, or “medical models,” employed in the Western psychological and mental health models are simply not appropriate for them and they wish to explore other approaches that are more holistically oriented and offer more opportunity for self-healing and empowerment. However, the various HoloShamanic Strategies’ programs are not psychotherapy, mental health counseling, the practice of “behavioral health,” or any other kind of therapy as understood by Western psychological models. Unlike mental health counseling and psychotherapy, HSI focuses on energies, emotions, thoughts, and historical and archetypal patterns of the personality, etc., which are always addressed within the context of the individual’s deepeni
