Professional Training is for those wanting to become psychotherapists with spiritual and shamanistic qualities in their work. It is also ideal for those looking to further the development of their skills and continue on the path to their own personal and spiritual growth. To learn more a about the programs that we offer, read the information below or click on the sub menu if you would like to find out more about a specific area.

Course Description

Shamanic Psychotherapy Training is for those who want to become psychotherapists with strong spiritual shamanic bases. It is also a great way for those with an existing practice to strengthen their skills or those looking to deepen their own personal and spiritual growth.

Shamanic Psychotherapy is one of the most inclusive approaches in the art of self-transformation. It combines the ancient ways of healing with, and through, Spirit. Conscious exploration of the body and psyche is used to promote a healing of the self and environmental responsibility. It can take one into an intense life changing process and deep spiritual connection. Shamanic Psychotherapy is rooted in a passionate love for the Divine Mystery, the Earth and Human journey.

Our purpose is to refine the ability of the student so they are: empathetic to their environment, focused, to trust in the Spirit as well as creating a safe environment for oneself and others. It explores the literature of many practices and traditions to help students develop and complete the course with their own unique approach to Shamanic Psychotherapy. To accomplish this we ensure each student receives individual attention and encouragement of their own natural gifts.

Our program is following the number of hours required for the “work in progress” Ontario regulation for Psychotherapy.

Course Format

During the two first years students will work intensely on their own emotional / spiritual clearing and growth as well as facilitating each other's processes. The third year is dedicated to clinical practice and supervision, group leadership skills and refinement of the therapist's natural gifts to create their own signature as Shamanic Psychotherapist.

The Program follows traditional western training as well as the ancient model of shaman's apprenticeship, where one learns through example, oral tradition and living experience. It includes class attendance; home assignments - independent studies; reading assignments, spiritual practice; personal psychotherapy process; clinical practice; supervision and case study.

The experiential program runs on 4-day residential intensive modules out of town at Northern Light Centre in Collingwood country side.

There are seven modules per year. To find out when they start click here.

There are also several ceremonies that are to be attended by students at various occasions and dates.

A reading course also part of the program and it can be done before the experiential training, during it of after it.

Also part of the program is individual psychotherapy that each student needs to seek with a professional while participating in the program.

Areas of Study and curriculum breakdown

Core Psychotherapy and counseling skills- Total 200 hours:

•  Overview History of Psychotherapy - 4 hours
•  Child development; attachment, character structure, family systems - 24 hours
•  Listening and Body language - verbal and non-verbal communication - 10 hours
•  Therapist- client alliance - 4 hours
•  Jung psychology (Total of 60 hours):
•  Ego -Self Axis , Shadow, Parts of self   -15 hrs
•  Dreams, symbols and Archetypes - 32 hours
•  Transference, counter transference and therapeutic boundaries - 10 hrs
•  Emotions in Therapy - Emotion Patterns - 8 hours
•  Focusing, the art of asking questions, voice dialogue, mapping and tracking - 14 hrs
•  Relationship counseling and communication dynamics - 8 hours
•  Group work/ group psychotherapy - 52 hrs
•  Elements of Professional Practice::   Inquire, Intake, Psychotherapeutic assessment and analysis, treatment plan and case report -10 hours
•  Psychopathology and intro to psychopharmacology - 3 hours
•  Ethics in Professional Psychotherapy Practice - 3 hrs

Shamanic Psychotherapy - Total 340 hours:

• Body-centered Psychotherapy - body/ mind energy work, bioenergetics, breathwork, grounding and embodiment (Dr, Cliff Ford, Stanley kelleman, Peter Lavine, Groff and others) - 80 hours
• Shamanic practices in psychotherapy - accessing intuition, rituals for healing, , drumming, journeys, power animals, spiritual guidance, resonating with Spiritual energies, working with Spiritual Presences. - 80 hours
• Soul medicine - retrieval of lost parts, soul retrieval, healing sub-personalities, entity release, shamanic clearing; extractions clearing ancestors' patterns - 100 hours
• Trance states in Psychotherapy - hypnotic states, shamanistic states, and other ways of accessing inner resources to facilitate the therapeutic process. - 10 hours
• Regression Therapy - hypnotic, non- hypnotic, spontaneous and shamanistic regression to heal and retrieve empowerment. - 20 hours
• Expressive Arts Therapy - Using creative resources to facilitate healing and integration: visual expressive arts (drawing, painting collage, clay), sandplay therapy, movement therapy, sound therapy and role-playing. - 30 hours
• Energy Healing - hands on healing to clear or activate energies in the body and energy field; the art of touch, Intro to energy psychology, Chacras psychology and energy work - 10 hours
• Supporting the process with Yoga Therapy, Flower Essences and other Medicine Plants - 4 hours
• Putting every thing together - 6 hours

Clinical Practice- Total 285 hours:

• Supervision client - contact sessions - 150 hours
• Group supervision: 60 hours
• Individual supervision: 40 hours
• Live supervision 10 hours
• Professional development - presentation and co-facilitating workshops/groups - 35 hours

Personal psychotherapy - 100 hours

Reading course - done withing 6 to 8 months.

Ceremonies: about 200 hours The student is to do at least:

• Two sweat lodges ceremonies
• Two vision quests
• Two other ceremonies chosen by the students as: Water ceremony, Fire walk ceremony, Moon ceremony, Pipe ceremony.

Areas of healing and Growth

Body-emotional- spiritual healing such as:

• Shadow work
• Inner child work
• Healing shame, becoming confident
• Embodiment
• Personal boundaries
• Healing sub-personalities, achieving wholeness
• Clearing parental and ancestors patterns
• Emotional and spirit release
• Healing trauma - physical, emotional and sexual abuse
• Developing trust and taking risk
• Following intuition
• Transforming belief systems
• The art of letting go and letting in
• Death and rebirth
• Balancing divine will and personal will
• Developing a spiritual practice

Professional skills:

• Empathic listening and focusing
• Being "heart present"
• Creating safety for the client
• The art of asking questions
• Client and therapist relationship
• Boundaries
• Identifying introjections, projections and transferences and counter transferences
• Understanding and holding the therapeutic process
• Communicating with the unconscious
• Holding the ground for an emotional release
• Dealing with trauma survivors - physical, emotional and sexual abuse
• Dealing with depression and anxiety, shame,   and other disturbances
• How to keep grounded, centered and energetically clear
• Using spiritual resources and trusting intuition
• How to deal with Spiritual emergency, Kundalini awakening and Dark night of the soul
• Discerning when to intervene and when to let the client lead the process
• Identification and evaluation of core issues
• Assessment and treatment plan
• Ethics
• Managing your practice