How can you break free from the restraints and judgments of a religious upbringing and begin to embrace your spiritual and intuitive gifts? How can you find your own healing path through spirituality?

MEET Samantha Bell-Walker

Samantha is an Intuitive, Healer, Psychotherapist, and Coach. She is a bright, bubbly person who loves to help heal others but has to walk through the shadows a time or two. She comes from a Southern Baptist upbringing where her gifts were dulled at an early age because she was “imagining things.” Suffering through generational and other traumas to find her voice took years, but she finally embraced her true self. The years of struggle, sacrifice, grit, and darkness that I endured led her to heal herself. This path of healing came after the death of her father. Helping him transition in those last days, made her realize her strength and selflessness. But the real test came within those next years, her dark knight of the soul era when the healer needed healing. Samantha’s personal therapy journey led her to holistic methods which led her to reiki and the rest was history. Her gifts resurfaced and magnified and her spirit pushed her out of her comfort zone to use them within her practice. Her sessions focus on creating a sacred space for individuals to be themselves holistically, spiritually, and mentally. She invites spirit into sessions for clients to be able to release things that no longer serve them. Her approach is collaborative and results in healing on a subconscious and conscious level. Samantha combines educational tools from the world of psychology such as Mindfulness, CBT, Somatic Therapy, and Family Systems with holistic and spiritual methods like Reiki and Energy Healing, Chakra clearing, EFT Tapping, Hypnotherapy, Herbalism, Sound Healing, and Oracle Readings. Her passions are trauma, generational trauma, ancestral healing, reading Akashic records and past lives, past life regression, hypnotherapy, shadow work, mirror work, cord cutting, and boundaries.

Find out more at The Attuned Clinician, A Ray Of Sunshine, Just Right Reiki, and connect with Samantha on Instagram

IN THIS PODCAST:

• How to recognize and embrace your intuitive gifts? 6:45
• Overcoming judgment when embracing your intuitive gifts 25:10

• The importance of finding a supportive community
• Incorporating holistic modalities into your healing journey
• Working through your core beliefs and embrace your intuitive gifts
• Spirituality vs. religion
• Accepting all parts of yourself as a healer
• What is your purpose?

• The power of acceptance
• Learning to grieve relationships that don’t work within your spiritual journey
• Combining religion and spirituality
• Using your intuitive gifts as a clinician

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What are holistic therapy intensives, and how do they differ from traditional therapy sessions? How do holistic therapy intensives address the interconnectedness of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being?

MEET Leah Barnes

Leah Barnes, LCMHCS, is the owner of Ridgeline Counseling and Supervision, PLLC where she provides online therapy to adults in North and South Carolina. She focuses on working with late-diagnosed or suspected Autistic and ADHD adults to get rid of internalized shame and ableism surrounding their neurotype, and learn ways to work with their brain, not against it. In addition to traditional weekly therapy, she offers therapy intensives to help clients dig deep into healing over the course of 1 to 3 days. She uses a variety of approaches during intensives, such as brain spotting, polyvagal techniques, therapeutic yoga, parts work, and more.

Find out more at Ridgeline Counseling, and connect with Leah on Instagram and Facebook

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What are therapy intensives? 2:58
• What are the benefits of therapy intensives? 9:19
• What therapy modalities can be used in therapy intensives? 15:45
• What are the challenges that come with this type of therapy? 25:09

• What is the difference between intensive and traditional therapy?
• Can you do therapy intensives virtually?
• How to schedule therapy intensives
• The importance of flexibility for intensives
• Why use therapy intensives?

• How can therapy intensives allow you to go deeper with clients?
• What type of clients would benefit from intensives?
• Who would not benefit from therapy intensives?

• The importance of having training in the modalities that you use
• How to schedule your intensive sessions
• The importance of utilizing an intake form beforehand
• What should your session's timeblocks look like?
• How to follow up after intensive sessions

• Managing your time and energy as a therapist
• How to integrate multiple modalities into a session
• Creating another revenue stream with therapy intensives

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How can you begin to incorporate unique self-care techniques into your practice? How can you begin to expand your self-care toolkit and elevate your overall well-being?

IN THIS PODCAST:

• In today’s episode, we dive back into some lesser-known self-care practices. We will look at 7 more self-care strategies that you can incorporate into your practice today!

Episode 173 Self-Care Practices You Might Not Have Heard Of Part 1

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Outdoor Labyrinth behind Millbrook Baptist Church, 1519 E. Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 2760

The Horse Shoe Farm

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