Psychospiritual therapy in Brooklyn, NY

Ethos: At Elemental Psychology we offer therapy services that are psychospiritual in nature, encompassing a deep and complete understanding of what it means to navigate being alive today. We have found  find that spiritual literacy is often missing in traditional psychotherapy practice and that grounded psychological principles and ethical relating are often missing or poorly understood in spiritual spaces. Here, we invite you into the wholeness of who you are, in a consciously contained clinical setting.

Psychospiritual therapy: a clinical psychotherapy service that does not organize around diagnoses and treatment of psychopathology but invests in the comprehensive and integrated wellbeing of the whole person. This modality reclaims psychology as the study of human behavior experience rather than the treatment of mental illness. This service is incompatible with insurance and so we are a self-pay practice. We support short and long term treatment.  

What we do: Elemental Psychology's practice identity is founded on core psychological principles and supported by spiritual framing and interventions, a clinical offering that bridges psychology and the sacred. This offering speaks to a greater need awakening within humanity that is often unmet by both religious and secular worldviews, and seeks to reintegrate what should never have been separated. Our work incorporates knowledge of non-ordinary states, welcomes metaphysical and mystical abilities and encounters, is grounded in earth-based cosmologies and practices, and recognizes that true wellbeing often hinges on one's relationship with the greater forces.

We distinguish spirituality from religion. At Elemental Psychology we define spirituality as aone's personal relationship with the greater forces that guide life on earth, unfolding through a highly personalized  and experientially diverse path through life. In particular we recognize spirituality as that which grounds us even more into our lives instead of transcending them. 

We follow professional regulations for psychological services including professional ethics and scope of competence.

There are four dimensions to the psychospiritual therapy offered at Elemental. They  interplay to support and amplify one another. They can all be seen as treatment/intervention to any presenting concern from depression/anxiety to existentialism, from identity to purpose, from career to relationships. This approach asserts that psychological concerns are spiritual concerns. These dimensions shape the therapeutic interventions that are offered in place of standard, often superficial treatment interventions seen in medicalized psychotherapy which may support stability but do not lead to wellness. 

The four dimensions are Liminal Realms, the Subtle Body, Spiritual Identity, and Earth-based Healing.

Session format will look the same as traditional talk therapy but will incorporate additional practices as appropriate to supplement dialogue.