What if your ability to guide others began with a deeper understanding of the spiritual dimensions of healing? This course invites you to explore how religious belief, spiritual inquiry, and diverse spiritual traditions can inform the therapeutic process and deepen your capacity to support others on their journeys of healing, discovery, and transformation.
In this class, you will examine the role of spirituality in personal growth and the therapeutic relationship, gaining a deeper understanding of how spiritual beliefs and experiences shape the ways people seek meaning, connection, and guidance. You will explore the role and responsibilities of the officiant in ceremonies, consider the complexities and ethical considerations that can arise in spiritual counseling, and refine your own intentions for serving others in these capacities.
Through an exploration of a wide range of spiritual traditions and perspectives, you will develop a broader understanding of spiritual experience and the many forms that spiritual inquiry can take. This expanded perspective will help you meet others with greater awareness, sensitivity, and discernment, allowing you to better support people as they navigate their own questions, beliefs, and spiritual discoveries.
This class is valuable for personal seekers as well as practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of spirituality in their work with others. Therapists, spiritual counselors, social workers, coaches, and other helping professionals will find this material particularly useful for understanding and supporting the spiritual dimensions of their clients’ experiences. Whether you are deepening your own spiritual exploration or expanding your ability to accompany others, Spiritual Direction offers an opportunity to clarify your purpose and cultivate a more intentional approach to service.
• This course is required for people becoming ministers through the Foundation of the Sacred Stream.
• Explore the intersection of spirituality, religious belief, and the therapeutic process
• Deepen your understanding of spiritual counseling, ceremonial work, and the role of the officiant
• Discover diverse spiritual traditions and approaches to spiritual experience
• Develop greater awareness of the spiritual questions, beliefs, and experiences that shape people’s lives
• Clarify your intentions and deepen your capacity to serve others in their spiritual journeys
• Gain insights to support clients’ spiritual exploration in therapeutic, coaching, and other helping relationships
• Cultivate the sensitivity and discernment needed to accompany others through personal and spiritual inquiry
• 4 recorded video lectures (approx. 2.5 hours total)
• Several series of journeys
• Two 120-minute live classes with Q&A
• Peer sharing and reflection exercises
• Recommended Reading list
• The Shamanic Journey.
• Depth Hypnosis Foundation Course (recommended but not required).
“I was not expecting this class to be such a powerhouse!” – James K.
“I learned so much about different spiritual traditions around the world and also about my own spirituality. I am looking forward to bringing this lens into my work with clients” – Debbie R.
Tuition: $325
Workshop Format: This course is offered via Distance Learning.
Offered by: Association of Depth Hypnosis Practitioners through the Sacred Stream.
Please Note: Class attendance is mandatory. This course cannot be audited.
The Sacred Stream has provided high quality education for over twenty years. Each course we offer provides easy to use portal pages, support staff, and support materials. Classes are offered with both online and in person options that are expertly managed to offer the best experience possible for students.
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is a renowned teacher and practitioner whose work bridges ancient wisdom traditions and modern therapeutic practices. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis™, a groundbreaking model that combines elements of shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, hypnosis, and transpersonal psychology. Widely respected by clinicians and spiritual counselors alike, Depth Hypnosis offers a powerful path to healing and self-discovery and has helped thousands of people live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Holding advanced degrees in cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology, Isa has spent over thirty years studying and practicing spiritual, meditative, and healing traditions from around the world. A pioneer in bringing shamanic and Buddhist principles into clinical contexts, she also developed Coming to Peace™, an innovative conflict resolution process inspired in part by indigenous peacemaking practices from Hawaii, Africa, and North America.
Isa co-founded the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, where she trains practitioners in Depth Hypnosis and related modalities. An early innovator in somatic and mind-body-spirit work, Dr. Gucciardi’s approach empowers individuals to access and transform deep subconscious patterns, fostering greater self-awareness, healing, and personal growth. Her work has helped thousands overcome trauma, anxiety, and life’s many challenges.
An accomplished author of three books, Isa speaks six languages and teaches and lectures nationally and internationally.
