Trance Healing and Counselling – A Deeper Connection

Exploring how trance healing and counselling come together to create deeper, more intuitive healing. When we learn to trust our intuition and sit with emotion, we open space for real transformation – for our clients and ourselves.

What Is Trance Healing?

Trance healing is a gentle yet powerful form of energy work where the practitioner enters a calm, meditative state – often called a light trance – to allow healing energy to flow through them to the client. It’s not about “doing” the healing, but rather becoming a channel for universal or higher energy to support the client’s wellbeing.

In this state, the practitioner quiets their mind and becomes deeply attuned, allowing intuitive and energetic awareness to guide the process. The energy itself flows where it’s needed, supporting healing on emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual levels.

Trance healing isn’t a replacement for counselling or medical treatment; it’s a complementary approach that honours the body and mind’s natural ability to heal when given the right conditions.

Finding the Link Between Energy and Emotion

Last weekend, I immersed myself in a trance healing course, and it was a truly powerful experience. As a counsellor, I’m always drawn to learning that helps me understand people – and energy – in new ways. The weekend reminded me how important it is to stay open, curious, and connected to both intuition and presence.

At first glance, trance healing and counselling might seem like different worlds – one rooted in energy and spirit, the other in psychology and evidence-based practice. But at their core, both share the same intention: to bring understanding, balance, and healing where there has been pain or disconnection.

How Trance Healing Informs My Counselling Practice

As a counsellor, I can’t – and wouldn’t – go into a trance state or practise hands-on healing during sessions. My role is to offer a safe, grounded space where clients can explore their thoughts and emotions.

However, the principles of trance healing still inform how I work. When I sit quietly, breathe, and allow intuition to take its place alongside skill and theory, I find that a natural attunement happens. I enter a calm, receptive space where I’m more able to sense what’s unfolding beneath the surface – emotionally and energetically.

This isn’t about altered states or “doing healing” for the client. It’s about being present enough that intuition and empathy can lead the way. From that place, the right words, silences, or questions often arise naturally. Clients feel met not only in what they say, but in how they are felt and understood.

Sitting With Emotion – The Heart of Healing

In counselling, healing often begins when we allow ourselves to sit with emotion rather than avoid it. When a client feels safe enough to experience what they’ve long held inside, those emotions can rise to the surface and begin to release.

That moment – when someone lets themselves feel rather than flee – is where transformation happens. By being fully present, both emotionally and intuitively, I can help create a space where clients feel safe to explore what hurts and, over time, find understanding and peace.

Counselling as a Healing Art

To me, counselling is healing in its own right. Talking is healing. Feeling is healing. Even silence can be deeply healing.
Trance work simply deepens that understanding – helping me to stay grounded, centred, and open to the subtler layers of the human experience.

It’s not about blending modalities, but about allowing all aspects of who we are – mind, body, emotion, and energy – to be held and honoured within the therapeutic space.

The Ongoing Journey of Learning and Trust

As practitioners, we never truly stop learning. Every course, every client, and every reflective moment adds another layer to our understanding. Developing intuition doesn’t take us away from professionalism – it brings us closer to authenticity.

When we bring together knowledge, intuition, and compassion, we create the conditions where genuine transformation can unfold – for our clients, and for ourselves.

Healing is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about creating space for what is whole to re-emerge.