Just as yoga works towards transformation through the physical body, so do other modalities offer different approaches for growth and transformation. Counselling can serve to release deep emotional blocks, heal old wounds and reorient life around a new path.  It is appropriate for many reasons: when life appears stuck or stale, when emotional unrest feels overwhelming, when confusion torments the mind. These are all times ripe for spiritual growth. Counselling can help with that process. 

Marianne offers two distinct types of counselling, each serving a different purpose. However, many people find that one approach leads naturally into the other, as Buddhist Psychotherapy and Shamanic Counselling can complement each other. If you are interested in counselling, you will probably know yourself which modality would best serve your needs at this time. If you are unsure, Marianne can discuss with you your personal situation and together you can decide where to start. 

Buddhist Psychotherapy

Depression, anxiety, grief, addiction, marital breakdown, stress . . . all this is suffering. No one is immune. Buddhism looks deeply into this reality—with eyes of compassion and insight.  It sees through to the other shore—helping people live noble and enlightened lives in the real  world which contains both grievous affliction and joyful blessings.  Buddhist psychotherapy views the person holistically, recognizing the vital continuum between body, mind and spirit in both health and disease. It recognises the inter-dependent nature of our lives and relationships. It promotes the cultivation of mindfulness and inner peace.

These counselling sessions provide the client with:   

--A safe, supportive space to explore difficult situations or feelings and discover new ways to approach life.

--Tools to work through patterns of attraction, aversion and delusion which keep life bound in limitation.

--An understanding that everyone has the potential for transformation, which can be either sudden or gradual.

--An opportunity to develop mind-body integration and groundedness.

--The possibility to develop an ethical framework, which is itself a therapeutic medium.

--A positive but challenging mirror through which clients can explore the fiction of fixed self material and the reality of impermanence, moving from ego-attachment to deep, unbounded awareness.   

Marianne Jacuzzi trained in counselling and psychotherapy with the Amida Trust, completing with them an Advanced Certificate in Buddhist Psychology.  Amida is an order of engaged Buddhists in the Pure Land tradition, based in England. She is a member of the Institute for Buddhist Analysis and Psychotherapy, UK, and abides by their code of ethics.

Shamanic Counselling Sessions

How best to make important life decisions? What happens when all available means of assistance have been exhausted and you still do not know what to do in life? Shamanism provides practical tools for solving everyday problems. It is based upon the understanding that we exist in a multi-dimensional reality and that it is possible to access wisdom and knowledge from the highest possible sources. Almost everyone has the ability to encounter spirit guides ready to offer guidance in all manner of situations, everything from big metaphysical issues to things like, What kind of career is right for me? How can I better organize my time? How can I be happier in my relationship with my partner?

In shamanic counselling, the counsellor tutors the client in the techniques of divination journeying, an ancient method of accessing other dimensions of reality which has been practised in indigenous cultures across the planet since the beginning of time. In traditional shamanism, the shaman journeys for the client. Through shamanic counselling, however, clients are trained to journey for themselves.  During a systematic course of one-to-one sessions, clients learn and practise these ancient skills. The counsellor works as teacher and facilitator, empowering clients to access the spirit realms on their own.  Personal spirit guides then become the real teachers, and clients learn to interpret with authority the wisdom they have to offer.

These sessions are experiential and extremely powerful. It usually takes a series of six to ten sessions for clients to integrate the techniques.  The goal for the client is autonomy and a restoration of spiritual power. Shamanic counselling is appropriate for anyone interested in profound life transformation, for anyone who wants direct experience of the spiritual realms and guidance from the widest possible sources for important life decisions.  

Marianne Jacuzzi has been practising shamanism in Ireland since 1999. She has studied in the UK with the Sacred Trust as well as the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies. She trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counselling with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in California.

If you are interested in exploring how these sessions might be of benefit to you,  please contact Marianne for more information (087-920-3600).