Episodes

  • S1E6: Working with Personality Disorders in Transpersonal Counseling | Harmony Kwiker

    S1E6: Working with Personality Disorders in Transpersonal Counseling | Harmony Kwiker
    Jun 29 2025
    Working with clients who present with symptoms of personality disorders can be especially challenging for many therapists. When we view successful treatment as changing a client’s personality traits, we may unintentionally reinforce their over-identification with the mind. In contrast, a transpersonal approach invites clients to awaken to their patterns rather than attempt to change them—offering […]
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    22 mins
  • S2E5: Cultural Reflexivity and Liberation Therapy | Nicole Xenos, PhD

    S2E5: Cultural Reflexivity and Liberation Therapy | Nicole Xenos, PhD
    Jun 22 2025
    Understanding how systems of oppression affect individual well-being is essential for any culturally reflexive psychotherapist. In this episode, Harmony is joined by liberation therapist Nicole Xenos, PhD, for a powerful conversation on the systemic nature of oppression and its profound impact on the therapeutic process. Nicole speaks to the importance of cultural reflexivity, recognizing personal […]
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    25 mins
  • S2E4: Countertransference as Intuition in Disguise | Harmony Kwiker

    S2E4: Countertransference as Intuition in Disguise | Harmony Kwiker
    Jun 15 2025
    While countertransference is often framed as something to avoid in traditional clinical training, transpersonal counseling views it as a doorway into the intuitive therapeutic field. The Taoist principle of Wu Wei, or effortless action, is embedded into gestalt theory. When we allow actions and responses to arise naturally, in harmony with the unfolding moment, we […]
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    31 mins
  • S2E3: The Intersection of Alternative Medicine and Numerology | Michael Kwiker, DO

    S2E3: The Intersection of Alternative Medicine and Numerology | Michael Kwiker, DO
    Jun 8 2025
    Much like traditional psychotherapy, conventional allelopathic medicine treats a patient through a symptom-based model, ignoring the wholeness of a client. When we honor the wisdom of a client’s vital force, a personal can become healthy with minimal innervations. In this episode, I’m joined by my dad, Dr. Michael Kwiker, DO, who is a genius when […]
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    25 mins
  • S2E2: Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy in Psychotherapy | Harmony Kwiker

    S2E2: Spirituality, Consciousness, and Subtle Energy in Psychotherapy | Harmony Kwiker
    Jun 1 2025
    Traditional counseling approaches separate a client’s psychological health from their spirituality. Integrating spirituality into therapeutic practices allows us to honor a clients’ innate wisdom and higher consciousness, as well as our own. This fosters a more organic and natural healing process, where therapists listen to and defer to clients’ innate wisdom rather than imposing external […]
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    23 mins
  • S2E1: Working with Couples in Gestalt Therapy | Susan Campbell, PhD

    S2E1: Working with Couples in Gestalt Therapy | Susan Campbell, PhD
    May 24 2025
    Oftentimes, when a couple is highly volatile and stewing in resentment, a therapist can feel challenged with knowing how to disrupt the pattern. Learning how to work with couples effectively can by a dynamic and powerful way to support increased awareness, integration, and contact. In the first episode of season 2, I am joined by […]
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    20 mins
  • S1E10: Spiritually Aligned Somatic Counseling

    S1E10: Spiritually Aligned Somatic Counseling
    Apr 20 2025
    In season 1, episode 10 of the Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony talks about how to follow a client’s innate spirituality is honored as the guide for their healing. From a wholeness-based model of counseling, a client’s innate wisdom is embedded within all aspects of their inner world. Even their most painful patterns of conditioning hold […]
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    19 mins
  • S1E9: Somatic Intelligence in the Disconnected Client

    S1E9: Somatic Intelligence in the Disconnected Client
    Apr 13 2025
    In season 1, episode 9 of the Awakened Therapist Podcast, Harmony and her guest discuss the importance of somatic intelligence in the therapeutic process. When working with any client, learning their particular interoceptive capacity informs our ability to meet them where they are. Interception (often referred to as the “eighth sense”) is our internal sensory […]
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    19 mins