What's this space all about? - Shamanic, IFS & Reiki

Lets start with a quote-

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,” Williamson writes in A Return to Love. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Marianne Williamson.

This is my favourite quote of all time, why am I putting it here? I believe this is part our journey here- to Return to Love, to Shine our Light, to be all we can be.

I offer the following different therapies- all of which help us balance & clear our energy fields, working at a deep relational level help us understand & clear what is not ours to carry anymore- whether that’s a personal or generational issue. Therefore increasing our Light allowing us to be all we can be.

I offer one to one sessions in Internal Family Systems (IFS) or in a combination of therapies to best suit your current needs.

I also offer Mentoring sessions for Counsellors for personal & professional matters. This is not Therapy or Supervision, but more of a conversation with a lighter touch, a gentle explore and share of experiences and knowledge. I have worked with C&YP and Adults, with a focus on Trauma work.

I offer one to one Energy Healing sessions.

Please note- From todays date I am pausing taking on new enquiries. 14/05/24. I will update here when this changes.

If anything here grabs your attention, please get in touch via the Contact Form. To organise a free zoom call to discuss your requirements or to book a session- https://wordpress.com/page/maggiecostella.com/5221

My most relevant training includes-

Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Various energy works- including Reiki
Contemporary Shamanic work
Past Life work
Coming soon working with Isis Healing energies
Working Creatively

How do I work?

I work in an informal and friendly, but professional manner, I work at the pace of the client, I work intuitively. My work is centered on the client and what they bring to work with on the day.

I work somatically, with the body, with parts of us, tuning into and respecting them as they present as sensations, thoughts, images, memories & feelings to be woked with.

Find out about these different parts, being curious, or compassionate- letting them tell their story- being seen, heard and noticed maybe for the first time. I work gently and repecfully, at the speed of your internal family system and it’s parts.

When parts are ready, enabling them to let go what they hold, to Earth, Air, Fire, Water or Light…. and completing this process as you and your parts fill those spaces with different higher vibrational energy going forwards.

I use mindfullness, to ground, to be in the present moment, which also allows rewiring of the brain, helping co-creating a new you, neuron by individual neuron (and repeat!).

I work Creatively- it’s one of my super powers. I wonder what your super powers are?

I aim to work in a Spiritual way- you don’t need to be Spiritual to work with me, but to be open or curious would be helpful, as it is with the delivery of Reiki or Energy Healing.

Alongside my IFS work and training, I am interested in & follow the work of Diana Cooper (for at least 20 yrs), Doloris Cannon I have been listening to most recently on YouTube & I am currently on a course with the Isis School of Holistic Health, Glasgow discovering the Path of Isis. I also dip in & out of A Course In Miracles.

Background

I have always worked with people. Starting 40 plus years ago as a General Nurse, followed by my Degree as a mature student, single parent (no mean feat for this Dyslexic Mystic). Then working as a Project worker in the Voluntary Sector, with specific Groups of people e.g. Homeless people, Lone Parent Families, as a Drug worker, then a Counsellor and Energy Healer these last 24 years.

I have a special interest in understanding and working with people who have experienced Trauma. The main model I work with is Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS).

I have also trained in Shamanic Practice and in Reiki, these experiential energy trainings are an integral part of who I am and they influence and underpin all of my work. I also understand IFS as a contemporary Spiritual Practice.

I completed Clinical Supervision training and practiced as a Supervisor for my Counselling work for a few years – and I am currently offering a mentoring service that allows for a more informal exploration or current professional or personal issues.

The Lakota people say ‘Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ‘ – meaning we are all related, for me there is strength to be drawn from that sacred relatedness & as we do our work and attend to our burdens, we are helping to clear the past & together build a better future.

Work information

Working at present on Tuesday and Friday, offering online and face to face sessions.

Working with Adults.

Walk and Talk sessions are also available.

With UK clients only atm.

I am looking at offering one off sessions and short term work- see retiral notice.

My base is in Fife, Scotland. If you are interested to know more please get in touch via the contact form here to arrange a free 20min zoom session.

To explore, what brings you here, if it’s the right time to come and if we both feel we can work together.

Retiral Notice – It’s my aim to retire by the start of 2026, thats 18 months from now May 2024. However, I will review this again as that time approaches.

My pronouns are her/she/they and I identify as neurodivergent.

IFS Therapy is much more than talk therapy or even traditional psychotherapy. It’s a psycho-spiritual model that integrates the multiplicity of the mind with the key role of Self-Energy. Therefore, it can be used as an experiential spiritual practice.
from Life Architect- IFS Poland

I work in a client centered way, I am accepting and non judgmental and as model founder Richard Schwartz says ” All parts are welcome”. See more info. here https://ifs-institute.com/

Alongside this, I believe we are all connected to something greater than ourselves (though we may have forgotten that) and as we do this work we begin heal our selves and our world. IFS calls this Self.

Whatever the cause – personal or generational – my hope is we can find a way to work together to restore your power and work with any life entanglements/constellations, to enable your heart to sing again.

It’s deep relational work.

It’s restorative.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”. Rumi

Here at Shamanic, IFS & Reiki, I believe the relationship you build with your parts and your Adult self and with Self is “the work”.

I will work relationally with you and with your parts and at your pace and of your parts.

IFS aims for us to identify and work with our parts, so that we can become more Self Led, as opposed to being parts led and parts running our lives.

Clients have let me know, their inner system feels calmer and they are less reactive in their lives.

8 Words begining with C.

In IFS there are 8 C words- that model founder Richard Schwartz says are representative of being in Self energy- these are

Curiosity, Confidence, Compassion, Clarity, Creativity, Courage, Connectedness, Calmness.

Reiki

Happy to Help! Just ask 🙂

Reiki Energy Healing, can be a seperate therapy or in addition to an IFS session.

I started training in Reiki in 2003 and have a a few Reiki Master Attunements, the main Reiki I offer is USUI Reiki.

Reiki translates as Life Force Energy and is the most relaxing, peaceful therapy to recieve. It can help balance your chakras, clear out energy no longer serving you well and creates a sense of deep peace and relaxation.

Shamanic IFS & Reiki — A Reiki Session in progress

Reiki is available in person, this does not require a pre chat by zoom.

Guides and Helpers

In all my work, I work with various Spirit Guides and Helpers of the Light, this diverse group have a collective name: they are called the Cosmic Shamanicans and they assist me in my work here at Shamanic IFS & Reiki.

Let’s be curious, what brought you here today?

People often seek help as current symptoms, relationships or ways of being are difficult. If we look through an IFS lense this can be understood as a part or parts of you, are replaying their past and trauma patterns or early attachment patterns are causing current difficulty or upset.

These early attachment wounds and later life Trauma often result in C-PTSD complex – post traumatic stress disorder and accompaning soul loss.

Working together respectfully with different parts of you we can negotiate change and re build relationship of part to Self and Part to the Adult you.

One of the goals in IFS is to be leading a more Self led life, not a parts led life.

Training

Current training relevant to whats on offer includes-

Internal Family Systems Training Level 1 & 2, 2018- 2020,

Reiki Master USUI Reiki 2003 (Plus other Reiki Master Attunements along the way),

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 2010,

Shamanic Practioner Training 2014-2017,

Advanced Shamanic Training Certificate- 2017,

Various Polyvagal trainings not leading to a Certificate.

Advanced Shamanic Training Certificate- for working with Ancestoral Trauma 2023,

Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling 2000-2003.

I like to work creatively and with vision.

As someone who is neurodivergent, I am sure you have noticed, the written word is a bit tricky for me, as I have some Dyslexic tendancies and other neurodivergent ways of being. Creativity however, is one of my Superpowers and I very much enjoy adding Creative aspects to all my work.

If you connect to anything I have written here, please get in touch via my contact form or email to arrange a free exploratory zoom call, to explore the possibility of working together.

I would require to organise a free 20 minute zoom session with you, where we can have a chat about your requirements and we can explore, what brings here to IFS, is it the right time to come, and if we both feel we can work together.