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Amy Nicholson, earth spirit healing arts, somatic psychotherapist, somatic experiencing therapy, somatic experiencing and sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing therapy near me, somatic experiencing practitioner, shamanic practitioner, sha…
 

How I work

I offer multidimensional healing through somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing™, AND shamanic ENERGY MEDICINE.

Every experience you’ve had in your lifetime is stored in your body.

Your nervous system is a diligent historian, interpreting, sorting and adapting to life events outside of your conscious awareness. Positive experiences elicit a healthy life expression, while stressful, traumatic events and historical trauma can manifest as physical pain, mental illness, and energetic imbalances. Multidimensional healing addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and subtle energetic bodies with the intention of bringing balance to the whole self.  We go to the root and resolve traumatic memories and recalibrate your nervous system. When the nervous system is functioning, the symptoms subside and a healthy, joyful expression abounds.

I specialize in the resolution of developmental & relational trauma through multidimensional healing. While traditional psychotherapy focuses primarily on the mind, multidimensional healing offers a holistic approach that includes the nervous system’s response to our emotional experiences. I see individuals, couples, and groups to help you heal your nervous system and fully embody your most authentic essence. 

I use Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing™, and Shamanic Healing to neutralize triggers and restore your sense of resilience.  Throughout your healing journey, you’ll rediscover your connection with your spirit, your community, and the earth. You’ll let go of the past, learn to reside in the present, and become empowered to hold and manifest a vision in which you share your most authentic expression and gifts with the world!

 
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Somatic Psychotherapist & Shamanic Practitioner based in Wisconsin, helping clients nationwide | Somatic Experiencing Groups | Transpersonal Psychotherapy | Polyvagal Therapist | Multidimensional Healing Sessions | Shamanic Trips & Spiritual Retreat…

Multidimensional Healing

Multidimensional healing addresses the complex relationship between physiology, cognition, emotional state, and energetic self. It includes shamanic healing, energy medicine, and somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy. This is integrative model, combines modalities of mind-body and spirit to help you resolve your suffering and to embody your most authentic self expression.

Somatic Psychotherapist & Shamanic Practitioner based in Wisconsin, helping clients nationwide | Somatic Experiencing Groups | Transpersonal Psychotherapy | Polyvagal Therapist | Multidimensional Healing Sessions | Shamanic Trips & Spiritual Retreat…

Somatic Psychotherapy & Somatic Experiencing™

The field of somatic psychotherapy acknowledges that your mind and body are not separate systems, but are completely intertwined via the autonomic nervous system. Your nervous system was designed to support your body in adapting to stress and traumatic events. When stress and trauma is not processed, it dysregulates your nervous system, and manifests in the form of physical and emotional illness, inhibiting your well-being. Somatic Psychotherapy aligns with your body’s response to trauma as a path towards healing. One way of approaching Somatic Psychotherapy is through Somatic Experiencing™.

Somatic Experiencing™ (SE) is a neurobiological approach to working with shock or traumatic experiences. Within a healthy therapeutic relationship, the goal of Somatic Experiencing™(SE) is to provide a safe container in order to process traumatic memory through the body and to support healthy self-regulation strategies. The end result is a restored equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system and thus a restored sense of well being in the mind, body, and behavior.

 

Shamanic Healing & Animism

In the present moment, we have access to multiple dimensions and unseen worlds, both within our bodies and also within the universal forces of creation. Animism is the belief that all beings of creation possess a distinct spiritual essence and consciousness. And, not only are these energies present in each moment, but they exist as part of our co-creative experience. A shamanic path is a personal spiritual practice. It’s about being in right relationship with ourselves and it’s also about being in right relationship with the natural world. This authentic relationship is an embodied way of being that allows us to access and connect the inherent wisdom present in all of the earth’s creation, and within ourselves.

For thousands of years, medicine people all over the world have accessed these unseen worlds to guide people towards healing and personal evolution. These realms are accessible to those who are called to this path. The practice of shamanic healing positions the shamanic practitioner as a teacher, guide, and conduit, calling forth healing energies and spirits for you to connect with and learn from. Shamanic healing emphasizes that all healing is self-healing, and that healing itself is an initiation into a deeper more profound relationship to the multidimensional Self, unfolding in alignment with the organic intelligence of the universe and within Mother Earth. Attuning to her, through our human nature, we awaken to experience our interconnectedness with all of life. She is calling us, to remember this connection and to return home.

My initiation into the shamanic path came in the form of hard lessons, unexplainable supernatural experiences, and interactions with the spirit world that left me feeling overwhelmed and confused.

I did not choose the path, but rather was awakened to it through difficult initiations.

My most powerful teachers have been the spirits of the trees, the water spirits and the Apus, the mountain spirits…But, I have also had the good fortune of having exceptional human teachers as well.

I’ve studied under many teachers over the past two decades in the form of formal apprenticeships, workshops and many pilgrimages to the sacred mountains of the Andes. I am grateful to my shamanic mentors and teachers and their lineages.

In my 1:1 sessions, I’ll guide you to deepen your connection to the natural world, to repair your luminous energy field, and to apply shamanic healing practices and ceremonies to support your own evolution.

In partnership with Túpaq T’ito Kuntur, I also offer online classes and in-person healing intensives and workshops in Andean Energy Medicine. I also bring groups Peru for personal healing pilgrimages in the Andes to work with Túpaq T’ito Kuntur and the Ayllu K’anchaq Qoyllur.

 

As part of your shamanic healing, one or several of these offerings will be integrated into your session, depending upon what is needed at the time:

  • Ancestral Healing

  • Past Life Healing

  • Soul Retrieval

  • Andean Healing Ceremonies

  • Limpia & Purification Ceremonies

  • Despachos

  • Power Retrieval

  • Cord Cutting & Extraction

  • Psychopomp

  • Mediumship

  • Luminous Field Repair (Illumination)

  • Sound Healing & Crystal Grids

  • Mentoring in Embodied Shamanism, Andean Energy Medicine and the Misah (mesa, or khipu)

 
 

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