Spirituality can be a powerful part of healing in therapy — but without critical reflection and a relationship to decolonial healing practices, it can also cause deep harm.
As therapists, we must resist the harms of uncritical “woo-woo” culture — including spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, disavowal of power, cultural appropriation, and other spiritually rooted harms.
In this two-hour interactive virtual workshop, we’ll explore the vital yet often overlooked ethical considerations of integrating spirituality into therapy. Using case examples, narrative therapy tools like bibliotherapy, mindfulness practices, and divination, we’ll reflect on how to navigate ethical dilemmas and approach spiritual work with intention, integrity, respect and a commitment to social justice.
Spirituality in therapy can be a powerful and necessary part of healing — but without critical reflection and a relationship to decolonial healing practices, it can (and will) cause deep harm to our clients and the communities we serve.
As therapists, we must actively resist the harm that comes from uncritically engaging in “woo-woo” culture — including spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, disavowal of power, cultural appropriation, and other forms of spiritually based harm.
In this two-hour interactive virtual workshop, we’ll dive into the often-ignored but vital ethical considerations of integrating spirituality into therapeutic work. Together, we’ll reflect on how to approach spirituality in therapy with intention, integrity, and a commitment to justice and true healing.
Using case examples and interactive activities such as journal prompts, tarot spreads, and narrative therapy tools like bibliotherapy, guided visualizations, and divination, we will collaboratively explore how to navigate common ethical dilemmas—like spiritual bypassing, toxic faith based theology, and cultural appropriation—within spiritual therapy contexts.
More and more therapists are asking how to ethically and meaningfully incorporate spirituality into their practice. That’s a beautiful thing—but it also requires intentionality, accountability, and humility. For example, just because you may identify as Christian doesn’t automatically make you a Christian counselor. Similarly, being an Ifá practitioner doesn’t necessarily mean you’re equipped to integrate African Traditional Religions (or ATRs) into your clinical work. Or, if you attended an ancestral or indigenous traditional ceremony, does that automatically equip you to speak to these experiences with your clients? Why or why not?
These are some of the questions we’ll explore with curiosity, compassion, and critical awareness — so that we can do our work as spiritual therapists in deeper alignment with our social justice values.
This workshop invites you to slow down, reflect, and ask the hard questions. For example: what are the potential risks and benefits of bringing spirituality into the room? How do we stay grounded in ethics while honoring sacred traditions—ours and others’? And how do we check ourselves before we unintentionally cause harm in the name of healing?
Join us for a dynamic conversation and practice-based exploration of what it truly means to integrate spirituality in ways that are ethical, decolonial, and healing-centered.
✨ Workshop Details ✨
🖥️ Zoom (not recorded)
📅 Sunday June 8th | 2–4 PM|
Sliding fee scale ($200 - $250) *Discount code for recent grads/current students
🔮 Bring: a tarot/oracle deck, your journal, and a grounding object
🌿 Come ready to be present in a distraction-free space
✨ Who is this workshop for?✨
🌀 Spiritual therapists
🌀 Clinicians curious about ethically integrating spirituality into their practice
🌀 Spiritually-aware practitioners committed to trauma-informed, ethical care
🌀 Counseling and social work students interested in decolonial healing
🌀 Recent grads seeking to weave spirituality into their clinical work
🌀 Practicing therapists who’ve hesitated to bring spirit into the room
✨ Why you should attend✨
Connect with other spiritual practitioners committed to interrupting harm and reclaiming healing.
Refresh and deepen your understanding of spiritual bypassing — what it is, how it shows up, and why it matters.
Explore how spiritual bypassing plays out in therapeutic relationships and clinical dynamics.
Challenge the disconnect in Western therapy, which often ignores the vital role of spirituality in healing.
Learn how to decolonize your therapeutic practice and integrate culturally rooted, spiritually grounded approaches.
Examine how white, female-dominated narratives and Christian supremacy shape the discourse on spirituality in therapy.
Reflect on how we’ve all been socialized under Christian norms — and how that impacts our clients, our ethics, and our spiritual practices.
Resist the commodified, appropriative “woo-woo” culture by grounding your practice in integrity, accountability, and justice.