[question] counseling, energy work, spirituality, career path

I've been idly trying to determine if there is already some sort of counseling type around which is willing to consider the possibility of energy work as valid, and which is completely aware of people's spirituality as a factor.

It's mildly amusing, but I do seem to be having a draw towards a counseling-type career path, presuming I can figure out a way to only be dealing with people who actively want to be there and to figure things out about themselves and their lives.

Amusing because I have a mother who is a school psych, and an older sister who I'd swear just finished a masters (? or further) in counseling. Runs in the family, just a bit. (Or, as I think they'd both say, people go into it because they, themselves, need or have needed healing, so understand. Or maybe it was that only crazy people want to try to help out the rest of the crazy people. Something like that. I'm not remembering the exact words, but they were amusing)

And... I _want_ to include energy work and such types of healing in with any counseling I do, so if I can manage to find a school with that intentionally a part of it (or at least with spirituality as an understood part of it), all the better. I wish I had better words for what I'm trying to say here...

And I wish I didn't feel an awful lot like what I'm looking for has tended to go along with organized religions, and probably doesn't really exist outside that category. *sigh* I don't _like_ having to create my own category! I do it too much...

Anyone have any idea? Note that I do _not_ want to go to a school with specifically catholic or christian leanings, because I got tired of that as a kid. Unless they are very _quiet_ leanings. Not with the trying to convert me...

Ok. I babble. And I really _should_ try to sleep, even if my brain is all being annoying.

[question] counseling, energy work, spirituality, career path

I've been idly trying to determine if there is already some sort of counseling type around which is willing to consider the possibility of energy work as valid, and which is completely aware of people's spirituality as a factor.

It's mildly amusing, but I do seem to be having a draw towards a counseling-type career path, presuming I can figure out a way to only be dealing with people who actively want to be there and to figure things out about themselves and their lives.

Amusing because I have a mother who is a school psych, and an older sister who I'd swear just finished a masters (? or further) in counseling. Runs in the family, just a bit. (Or, as I think they'd both say, people go into it because they, themselves, need or have needed healing, so understand. Or maybe it was that only crazy people want to try to help out the rest of the crazy people. Something like that. I'm not remembering the exact words, but they were amusing)

And... I _want_ to include energy work and such types of healing in with any counseling I do, so if I can manage to find a school with that intentionally a part of it (or at least with spirituality as an understood part of it), all the better. I wish I had better words for what I'm trying to say here...

And I wish I didn't feel an awful lot like what I'm looking for has tended to go along with organized religions, and probably doesn't really exist outside that category. *sigh* I don't _like_ having to create my own category! I do it too much...

Anyone have any idea? Note that I do _not_ want to go to a school with specifically catholic or christian leanings, because I got tired of that as a kid. Unless they are very _quiet_ leanings. Not with the trying to convert me...

Ok. I babble. And I really _should_ try to sleep, even if my brain is all being annoying.

[schooling]

Well, I now know how long it took me to want to go back to school again. A little over three years. ;)

Won't be immediate, though. If nothing else, I want my school loans gone. And I still think traveling a bit between full-time work and full-time school would be good. And saving up for school might also be wise.

And, of course, getting pre-reqs would be good. To all those who replied to my query ridiculously late last night about spiritually/energy-work related counseling, thank you! Now I have lots of stuff to play with for investigative purposes. Probably, most immediately, figuring out which pre-reqs I need, no matter which I pick.

[schooling]

Well, I now know how long it took me to want to go back to school again. A little over three years. ;)

Won't be immediate, though. If nothing else, I want my school loans gone. And I still think traveling a bit between full-time work and full-time school would be good. And saving up for school might also be wise.

And, of course, getting pre-reqs would be good. To all those who replied to my query ridiculously late last night about spiritually/energy-work related counseling, thank you! Now I have lots of stuff to play with for investigative purposes. Probably, most immediately, figuring out which pre-reqs I need, no matter which I pick.

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Dying of the laughy!

If you don't already read ladytabitha, you won't have seen this link.

(But, seriously, how many of you could possibly be reading me and not her?!)

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Dying of the laughy!

If you don't already read ladytabitha, you won't have seen this link.

(But, seriously, how many of you could possibly be reading me and not her?!)