What are the differences and how to know which one to use? What if there is an interesting technique that could be a shortcut to spiritual awakening? What if healing were easier than you’ve been led to believe?
In over 30 years of spiritual counseling and healing, I’ve found that there are differences in the way practitioners approach their work. I’ve created this article to describe the similarities and differences between life coaching, therapy, and ICT or Integrative Chakra Therapy®.
Life Coach
A life coach helps you identify strengths and weaknesses and overcome obstacles holding you back. Life coaching focuses on what’s happening right now, what a person wants next, and how that gap can be bridged. It is action-oriented and often involves establishing goals and assigning homework.
Typically lacks: Spiritual healing work or clinical diagnosis.
Possible outcomes: A better-ordered life, focus, and achievement of goals.
Therapy
Generally, the point of therapy is to improve mental health. Therapists aim to give clients insight into their thoughts, feelings, motivations, and desires. While coaching is action-oriented, therapy is insight-oriented. A therapist looks at your past to help you manage your present.
Key features: Can diagnose disorders, work with traumas, and focus on behavioral modifications.
Possible outcomes: Improved mental state, emotional stability, and resolution of early traumas.
ICT (Integrative Chakra Therapy®)
I created ICT well over 20 years ago as a means of accessing the four archetypes of the whole human being—mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional—through the chakra system. ICT is a form of energy medicine based on the chakra system and the biofield.
How it works: In ICT, the practitioner makes an intuitive assessment of the condition of the chakra system. The practitioner acts as a conduit for healing energy (Source energy) to flow through them to the client. It works at the level of the soul (astral dimension).
Two-step process:
Intuitive Assessment: Assessing the client’s chakras (strong, weak, excess, deficient) as they relate to the four archetypes, including potential info from past lives or karma.
Verbal Assessment: Relating the healing work to the client and providing tools (breathing, meditation) to help them strengthen themselves.
Possible outcomes: Dramatic shifts in physical health, deeper insights into one’s soul mission, spiritual awakening, and the dissolving of karmic patterns.
Conclusion
In all three forms, the spiritual advancement of the practitioner is paramount. A higher spiritually awakened practitioner sees things more as they are, not as they appear to be. All three modalities can be done in person or at a distance. Choose carefully and intuitively before you engage in any form of self-help.
