Individual Healing Sessions
- Careful assessment informs personalized treatment plans
- In-person or Telehealth
- Intensives (extended sessions) at rural retreat center
- Collaborative, compassionate, and reverential care
Relational therapy sessions will:
empower
restore balance and harmony
clarify sense of self
rebuild relationship trust
"My life has been impacted in an incredible way as a result of Geral’s knowledge, methods, and skills. I have recommended him to others as a real alternative to the ‘sick based’ pill culture we live in. Geral offers a path to real core healing in ways which are totally inaccessible by standard Western methods.”
"Rob", age 40
Awakening the Healing Soul
Indigenous Wisdom for Today's World
Awakening the Healing Soul is a paradigm busting exploration of contemporary psychology that updates the profession with ancient shamanic wisdom. Having traveled to remote regions of the world exploring "jungle medicine" Blanchard, through storytelling and in fine trickster fashion, charts a hopeful healing course for the suffering person. Shamans and sangomas are among the author's instructors.
The healing power of the human mind, rituals within ceremonies, community involvement, and plant medicines can remedy most any malady from trauma to addictions. Age-old aboriginal concepts of sacred magic and the super natural hold equal standing and can be as effective as many Western healing practices. After being successfully applied for tens of thousands of years, evidence-based methods are the hallmark of indigenous medicine. Similarly, best practices are not just mechanical in nature but spirit infused - another time-tested way of healing.
Ancient Ways
Indigenous Healing Innovations for the 21st Century
Ancient Ways is a unique addition to the field by combining traditional indigenous wisdom with contemporary neuroscience and psychotherapeutic innovations to create a comprehensive model for psychological healing. This one-of-a kind text emphasizes several elements that are essential to successfully resolving issues of physical, emotional, and sexual trauma. Within this framework, the author encourages the exploration of robust therapeutic growth that requires a strong spiritual component, immersion in nature, and recovery strategies that are steeped in community relationships, rituals, and ceremonies. Drawing from sacred shamanic traditions and contemporary North American medicine, Blanchard explains how old and new healing strategies are surprisingly compatible and combine for a more powerful potentiating effect. For the therapist who desires a more reverent and meaningful counseling practice, this book offers a solid theoretical foundation for this important work.
