Reiki Healing for Trauma in Boulder | A Personal Account of Energy Work

Reiki Healing for Trauma in Boulder: A Personal Account of Energy Work

Last month, while lying in a small (or vast) puddle of tears, I experienced my first session of reiki healing for trauma in Boulder. I saw Jennifer—100/10 recommend.

If I’m being honest, I still have no idea how reiki works, and yes, I’ve listened to the energy‑healing episodes of The Telepathy Tapes.

Still, when someone joyfully dives off the deep end of reality in search of ontological shock—the kind that validates intuition—there isn’t much room left to question the things that don’t make sense yet. Trusted fellow reality‑divers encouraged me to try reiki therapy, so off to reiki I went.

How Adoption Trauma Led Me Toward Intuitive Healing

I was adopted at three weeks old and relinquished by my birth mother within hours of arriving earth-side. I’ve spent forty‑one years navigating the unavoidable trauma that comes with that beginning.

Psychologically speaking, I have a firm grasp on it (shout out to my therapist). Still, multiple mediums have noted stuck energy in my solar plexus, which is often where trauma healing work gets lodged.

My sense is that my guides and ancestors are nudging me toward another layer of healing. It feels like preparation for something—a new horizon I’ve sensed for six months.

I don’t fully understand it yet, but I have ideas. Therapy will always be a grounding pillar, but this horizon seems to call me beyond it and deeper into intuitive healing.

For anyone curious about how trauma shows up in the body, I’ve written more about somatic trauma healing on my site.

A Soul‑Centered Integration of Psychotherapy and Spiritual Healing

It’s not that psychotherapy hasn’t moved the needle on my adoption trauma. Quite the opposite.

I’m confident I never could have stayed on that reiki table willingly, with such profound hope and surrender, had I not built years of scaffolding in therapy.

Therapy also made space for my tranquil encounter with a giant angel and dead relatives. A decade ago, that would have sent me into an anxious tailspin.

When I write about mediumship extending the reach of psychotherapy, I mean exactly that. It’s not a replacement for the hard work of facing the psyche. It’s an extension—one that opens doors to self and spirit and changes what therapy can become.

I explore this blend more deeply in my work with intuitive therapy, which integrates both psychological and spiritual frameworks.

Why Reiki Therapy Became the Next Step

Plotinus theorized about emanation and return. He suggested that our lifetimes are used to seek our source and return to it, finding meaning and sucking the marrow from life along the way.

Yet all around me, I watch the soul of humanity flatten and numb itself.

I see the same pattern in psychotherapy. In a cognitive‑based model—the one insurance companies fund—the work ends with understanding.

What a tedious existence to only look inward without ever looking up and out toward the heavens we descended from.

Therapists are healers. Modern‑day shamans, sages, spiritualists, and elders.

We don’t merely end our work with an individual. We are psychopomps connecting the living with the dead—the “as above” with the “so below.”

We stretch between ourselves and our clients, but what of the transcendent third? To look beyond what this world shows, we must stretch into the unknown and invite it into the therapy room.

This is where energy healing becomes a bridge.

Reiki Healing as a Return to Source

Waking up requires doing our own work. Not just the twenty hours of therapy required for licensure.

We must stretch and seek source in our own lives if we are to guide others toward the same.

This is what I trust spirit is asking me to do. The deeper I take myself, the deeper spirit will trust me to take others.

Reiki healing for trauma in Boulder became another step toward source.

I was in tears before she even began her energy work. The moment I closed my eyes, I saw an immeasurable white angel standing before me, wings stretched protectively around me.

I knew instantly the work would be intense, but I felt deeply protected.

The angel told me to breathe with the movement of its wings—to exhale what needed to leave. Beside the angel stood Tomasa, my feisty great‑great‑grandmother, and other ancestors I didn’t recognize.

I knew they were all there to guide me through this layer of spiritual healing.

If you’re curious about my background and how I approach this work, I share more on my About page.

How Spiritual Beings Communicate During Energy Healing

People often ask how I know these beings are real. I see them in my mind’s eye.

I understand what they’re telling me, but I don’t hear it audibly. It’s a telepathic download.

Lately, I also get physical sensations when they want my attention or when they want me to relay a message. Their presence has an energetic signature.

Different beings feel different when they arrive.

Mediumship classes have helped me discern these presences. The emotions they conjure become familiar—part of how they announce themselves.

They don’t inhabit the physical plane in these fleshy meat suits we wear, so they get creative.

Some are a riot—extra silly or direct in ways that make me laugh at myself when I share their messages. Nothing about them scares me.

But the horizon they’re calling me toward does. Change always does.

Listening for Guidance in the Quiet Moments

Over the holidays, it was difficult to hear anything in the chaos. Especially when surrounded by people who don’t share my affinity for ontological shock.

Recently, flying home from San Diego at night, I slipped into the liminal flow state that night flights always bring.

I didn’t hear direct messages, but the awareness of what might unfold in 2026 was everywhere.

My hope is that anyone reading this finds their own version of seeking and stretching toward source in the year ahead—no matter how daunting it may feel.