Greetings and Welcome
Greetings one and all. I thought it could be an idea to have a place where those involved in counseling within the Pagan lifestyle or arena could get together and share ideas, vent frustrations and help one another.
Perhaps a little information about my own counseling background would be appropriate. I'm a trained Professional Counselor and have four specialized areas I mostly deal with.
1. PTSD ~ having suffered post traumatic disorder, it seemed appropriate for me to help those currently suffering through this nasty time.
2. Armed Incident. Stress ~ Deals with people who have been involved in an armed incident (knives and guns etc). I know from experience what it is like to be both shot and stabbed as well as being the wielder of a blade and the shooter as part of a life with the para military, military and security areas. Thus I am able to help those affected through this period.
3. BDSM & Kink areas ~ Dealing with mostly genuine abuse (Physical and/or mental) or being deserted. usually the submissives and slaves (consensual people, consensual) are abused and or deserted (just dumped or ignored) when they are at their most vulnerable. There are some very good kink friendly counselors and psychologists but unless they either ar or have been part of the lifestyle they have no in-depth understanding of the scene. Experience is what matters in the long run.
4. Occult areas ~ Like the BDSM Lifestyle, people who do not have experience in a variety of areas of the magickal paths from a practical point of view will rarely be able to help in the same degree as a practitioner can. That can speak the same language and don't thing some one who believes is cursed or threatened with magick is ready for sedation..
I'm rather hoping that we shall attract also High Priests, High Priestesses, Coven Elders and other Group Leaders and Elders as they are the front line in counseling
in the Art Magickal.
Blessed Be
IB
Perhaps a little information about my own counseling background would be appropriate. I'm a trained Professional Counselor and have four specialized areas I mostly deal with.
1. PTSD ~ having suffered post traumatic disorder, it seemed appropriate for me to help those currently suffering through this nasty time.
2. Armed Incident. Stress ~ Deals with people who have been involved in an armed incident (knives and guns etc). I know from experience what it is like to be both shot and stabbed as well as being the wielder of a blade and the shooter as part of a life with the para military, military and security areas. Thus I am able to help those affected through this period.
3. BDSM & Kink areas ~ Dealing with mostly genuine abuse (Physical and/or mental) or being deserted. usually the submissives and slaves (consensual people, consensual) are abused and or deserted (just dumped or ignored) when they are at their most vulnerable. There are some very good kink friendly counselors and psychologists but unless they either ar or have been part of the lifestyle they have no in-depth understanding of the scene. Experience is what matters in the long run.
4. Occult areas ~ Like the BDSM Lifestyle, people who do not have experience in a variety of areas of the magickal paths from a practical point of view will rarely be able to help in the same degree as a practitioner can. That can speak the same language and don't thing some one who believes is cursed or threatened with magick is ready for sedation..
I'm rather hoping that we shall attract also High Priests, High Priestesses, Coven Elders and other Group Leaders and Elders as they are the front line in counseling
in the Art Magickal.
Blessed Be
IB
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Permalink Reply by Nautonnier on -
Ave Frater,
Thank you for starting this most worthwhile Group..
master Bear...you know me well already!
all other friends..
i am Delighted to participate..and Offer you may help and assistance.
Myself I Generally find that i am counselling those who have Brought uncomfortable experiences upon themselves..due to dabbling in the Magickal artes without due care, caution and attention..
there is MUCH dangerous material freely and easily available via the internet..
and People are always inquisitive..
which can lead to allsorts of problems and delusions..
as part of my ethos of Service to all beings..
It is incumbent upon me to assist wherever and whenever needed
I am always aware that IT is NOT..me but Through ME that Healing Comes..
sometimes a person may NEED a being like me to act as the spark to allow the sunlight through..
I Believe you understand what I Mean!
Blessings all ..
I Look forward to participating ...
BB,
Daniel Nautonnier
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Permalink Reply by ~*Lady Nariel*~ on -
Greetings Iron Bear and all those here!
First of all, may I say thank you so much for creating this space. It is a fact, that those that counsel, most often counsel 80% from experiences of life and 20% from anything learned in a book or that well rounded place known as Higher Academia! :)
My name is Nariel around these parts and I am currently working towards the Masters in Psychology with the Minor emphasis of Services for the Deaf at East Central University in Oklahoma.
As a person who is profoundly hard of hearing and who should (but doesn't) wear two hearing aids, I know well the gap that the field of professional counselors has in serving the deaf and HoH populace!
Life experience has taught me much, but not all of what I need to know as a human, as a counselor, as a Priestess or even as a mother bereft of her only son, who was killed in a car accident just 6 months ago at the age of 18. Let's face it: no matter how long we live, no matter how much we've acquired, or how long we've done anything.. there is always more to learn, yes?
I have been trained in the arena of Spiritual counseling from an Avalonian Druidic perspective--which also finds much of its wisdom parallel in Jungian Psychology from time to time. As pealing the layers of an onion away, that is how our lives go on, we go deeper and deeper and hopefully begin to embrace and heal or release the shadow and the effects that it can manifest in our own lives and in the lives of those that we come in contact with.
I can't claim specific 'counseling' ability as I am not yet licensed of course.. however, let us say that in my walk of nearly 40 years of life now, I have dealt with much--from spousal abuse, to bipolar disorder, trauma and loss, identity crisis, and personal sovereignty matters, matters of BD/SM lifestyle, polyamorous and polyfidelitous relationships and families that are struggling to raise pagan children in a culture that is so unfriendly to them and the parents that are raising them, in the many people who tend to come to me to talk about things or those things in which I am personally experienced. I am honored they do so and look forward to serving many more people through the years following my time in the hallowed halls of the Universities!
I would be greatly appreciative of any discussion on PTSD, as I seem to be experiencing a great lot of the symptoms of it, following the very tragic death of our son.
I thank you so much, brother.
Many blessings,
Nariel
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Permalink Reply by Last Knight on -
Hello.... I'm not a councelor yet, but I am a psychology student and hope one day to work with the criminally insane. I'll be getting my BA this semester and moving on to grad school from there.
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Permalink Reply by Cindy Bidwell Glaze on -
Greetings,
I stumbled on this group.
I am a Pastoral Counselor. I am ordained in the Church of Ancient Paths, a pan-pagan church in Upstate NY & VT. I learned counseling at a Catholic "Institute" that was attached to the Baptist Seminary where I was a student there. BTW, I was the first, and so far only, openly pagan student there.
I have done counseling professionally in a Medium Security Women's Prison and a Teaching Hospital. Since I have become disAbled with a number of physical issues and chronic depression, I have stepped back to volunteer work. As such I have worked in a local jail doing Spiritual Growth work in the Women's pods as well as working in the local pagan / heathen community.
I am learning disaster counseling and trauma counseling. Both areas are new to me, except where they intersect with the day-to-day traumas of abused lives in prisons and jails and the results of accidents and illness. The counseling I am going for is one on one counseling for people involved in major disasters.
I am over 50 years old and have worked with the mentally ill and substance abusers, teaching them that the world was un-well and they were dealing with that. Bringing them the concepts, if not the form or thealogy of Paganism has been a help to me in this work. I have not really dealt with well people faced with a major, world-shaking catastrophy. When 9/11 hit, I was already dealing with a joint flare of Fybromyalgia and major depression so I couldn't cope with tragedy on that scale.
Enough said.
Blessings Bright & Dark,
Cindy / Cerridwyn
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Permalink Reply by Hypnotherapist on -
Greetings and Welcome to all,.. and to you Iron Bear.
I am a Practicing Hypnotherapist in Washington State. I've been in private practice going on 3 years: In the field of counseling since 2003. Still, still, working toward my Ph.D
Areas that I work on most are
1. Weight release & Cell / Cellular management
2. Emotional freedom & Stress recovery (Including release from fear).
3. Rape recovery (Including other body violations)
4. Regression (Including Soul Contract, recovery and release).
5. And my favorite after hours stuff: Educating and training to enhance / develop special gifts.
I am sure happy to be here, thank you for creating a place for me to say hello.
Douglas
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