Reiki One for Therapists
An Energy Healing Class
Curated for
Mental Health Counselors
Course Learning Goals:
Gain an understanding of how body centered interventions can be developed and utilized as skills to engage, interpret, and respond to self and others.
Develop a working understanding of how interpersonal neurobiology supports the use of body centered interventions in psychotherapy.
Learn and practice Reiki as a self and co regulation technique.
Identify ways Reiki can be used by both clinician and client to enhance self awareness and self tracking skills.
This CEU course will explore how therapists utilize right brain, body oriented engagement to access, interpret, and respond to themselves and their clients in therapeutic interactions. This exploration will include discussions and experiential activities. A focus will be placed on teaching how interpersonal neurobiology is experienced and utilized as a non-verbal engagement skill that has the potential to increase the efficacy of psychotherapy. Interpersonal neurobiology is described as “the study of how one mind-body-brain emerges developmentally from, and merges relationally with, other mind-body-brains.” (Marks-Tarlow, 2014). Participants will learn and practice Reiki, a subcortical regulation technique.
Biography of the teachers:
Liz Bassler, LCSW completed graduate school from the University of Montana in 2015. Her social work career immediately included clients dealing with chronic PTSD, children diagnosed with severe emotional disturbances, and families suffering with generational trauma. Liz noticed her own emerging pattern of not completing notes, not wanting to go to work, and staying up at night thinking of her clients' stories. Not immediately realizing this was secondary trauma and burn out, she looked for solutions. She initially engaged in talk therapy, but found little reprieve. Liz found that a combination of Reiki; trauma-informed, body-centered modalities; and intentional self-care led to her own regulation and healing.
Liz completed Reiki I in 2019 and is now a certified Reiki Master. She is also certified in TRM and EMDR. In her therapy practice, she relies heavily on a combination of right and left brained approaches to healing trauma. She has successfully utilized Reiki in outpatient sessions for both self- and co-regulation, and often guides clients towards Reiki as an alternative healing method.
Neil Chaput de Saintoge has been practicing Reiki for over 23 years; he founded Inner Peace Reiki in Missoula, MT 10 years ago. Inner Peace Reiki is an organization devoted to teaching Reiki and providing professional development opportunities for practitioners in Western Montana. Neil currently teaches Reiki I, Reiki II, and Reiki Master through his community-driven Reiki school. In the past, he has taught for the former Red Willow Healing Center, and Montana School of Massage. Neil has taught over 1,200 students in Missoula and 350 Reiki classes.
Through the years, Neil observed that more mental health therapists were participating in his Standard Reiki courses, so he decided to modify the Reiki I course to better meet the specific needs of mental health therapists.
Testimonials:
“Reiki I for Therapists was an incredible blend of science and art beautifully geared toward the work we do as therapists. Liz and Neil each come with their own expertise, and the dynamic between their teachings and their personalities is wonderful. They create a safe, welcoming, and authentic atmosphere for learning and sharing the healing power of Reiki. I originally signed up for the class to add to the healing modalities I use for myself and my clients, but I came away with much more knowledge and excitement than anticipated. After completing this class and subsequently Reiki II, I regularly use Reiki and am thrilled to be continuing on this path with Reiki Master class. I look forward to sharing Reiki as much as possible in the future and am grateful for such an awesome introduction to this practice.””
“The education approaches that Neil Chaput de Saintonge uses have been developed through our creative collaboration. Nearly 15 years ago, before the focus on the integration of body centered strategies into psychotherapy, Neil was seeking to integrate Reiki, massage, yoga. and group psychotherapy practices. Together we were able to create novel interventions that integrated Reiki into social service settings. Reiki training is an efficient, invaluable way to teach therapists about body awareness.”
“I am possibly a hard person to convert to Reiki. I have a background of chaos and trauma as a former crime and then war reporter. But Neil’s class was revelatory and impressive. What a warm human being Neil is.”
“I came to this class curious, but also unsure of what to expect. I came away surprised and grateful for accessibility and power of Reiki. I look forward to strengthening my skills!”