🌿 How Therapists Can Know When It’s Time to Refer a Client to an Energy Healer
- ashley steen
- Sep 16
- 3 min read
As a therapist, you're holding space for deep transformation every day. But sometimes, talk therapy alone isn’t enough to unlock the healing your client is searching for. That’s where energy healing specifically chakra balancing and energetic clearing can provide an essential layer of support.
If you're noticing repeated patterns, emotional blocks, or unexplained symptoms in your client that don’t fully shift through traditional therapeutic work, it may be time to bring in energetic support.
Here’s how to know when that moment has arrived.
✨ When a Client Has Insight, but No Movement
Your client may understand their patterns intellectually they can name their trauma, unpack their beliefs, and explain their coping mechanisms but nothing is shifting in how they feel or live.
🔁 What it may signal: Energy blockages are keeping the body and nervous system stuck in a survival loop.
💡 How I support: Chakra healing helps clear stuck emotional residue and realigns the body with new, more supportive frequencies. It’s often the catalyst that helps insight translate into embodied change.
🌬 When Emotions Feel Bigger Than the Moment
Some clients experience extreme emotional spikes or dissociation during sessions. Others may carry emotions that seem unrelated to their current reality—like grief, shame, or rage that arrives “out of nowhere.”
🔁 What it may signal: Energetic congestion, trauma stored in the chakra system, or unprocessed ancestral energy.
💡 How I support: Through gentle energy work and chakra balancing, I help release emotional energy that’s been held in the energetic body for years or even lifetimes.
🌌 When a Client Describes Feeling Drained, Disconnected, or “Off”
Therapists often hear clients say things like:
“I feel like I’m carrying something that isn’t mine.”
“I just feel energetically heavy all the time.”
“I’m going through the motions but I feel disconnected from myself.”
🔁 What it may signal: Energetic imbalance, cord attachments, or chakra misalignment (especially in the root, heart, or solar plexus).
💡 How I support: Chakra healing re-centers the client in their own energy field and clears what's not theirs helping them feel grounded and sovereign again.
🧘♀️ When Spiritual Awakening Is Creating Emotional Turbulence
As more people awaken to their intuitive or spiritual nature, they may begin experiencing intense dreams, synchronicities, energetic sensitivity, or emotional overwhelm.
🔁 What it may signal: A spiritual awakening or “energetic up-leveling” that needs guidance and grounding.
💡 How I support: I help clients integrate these experiences safely by supporting the upper chakras (crown, third eye, throat) while grounding and stabilizing the lower ones.
🕊 When Talk Therapy Seems to Be Re-Traumatizing
If sessions begin to feel more triggering than healing or if your client is caught in loops of re-telling the trauma without resolution this could be a sign that their nervous system or energy field is overloaded.
🔁 What it may signal: The body is saying "I can't process this through the mind anymore."
💡 How I support: Energy healing bypasses the analytical mind and works directly with the body’s subtle energy systems. It can soothe, clear, and stabilize the energetic imprint of trauma, making space for deeper healing.
🤝 The Power of Working Together
As a therapist, your work lays the groundwork for lasting emotional and psychological growth. As an energy healer, I complement that by supporting the subtle and energetic body, helping your client integrate healing at every level mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
We’re not in separate fields. We’re allies in the same mission: to help people heal fully and live with clarity, presence, and peace.
If you’re curious about how we might collaborate, I’d be honored to connect. Together, we can offer your clients a more holistic path to wellness.
Let’s create a bridge between science and spirit.Because healing doesn’t live in just one modality it lives in the whole human experience.
🌿 To schedule a consult or learn more about my chakra healing sessions, www.ashleysteen.com

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