What is Holistic Therapy?

Holistic therapy addresses the mind, body, emotional and spirit to support health and healing.

It’s very similar to general therapy or counselling but often draws on complementary and alternative practices that the therapist may also have in their toolbox.

It involves “bringing all layers and aspects of our clients into the therapy and mental health space. In other words, it’s combining mental and emotional health with physical and spiritual aspects of experience.

The goal of a holistic therapy is to balance all the different aspects of the person, so the entire person is addressed in treatment and not just one aspect of the person. For instance, in the traditional Western medical approach, someone with arthritis would be treated by a specialist who would address their arthritis with medicines and other interventions. Using holistic therapy, instead of just treating someone’s arthritis, the person’s emotional aspects, attitudes and beliefs (mental), relationships and how they are affected by their illness, and spiritual aspects (deeper rooted meanings about one’s existence and future) would all be addressed in the treatment process.

The origins of holistic therapy and its growing popularity today

Holistic therapy may be a buzzword in the mental health space today, but it has existed for centuries.

Credits ancient Greek philosopher Hippocrates as one historical figure who laid the foundations for holistic therapy. Different forms of holistic therapy also existed in traditional medicine systems, such as Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Bringing the body and spirituality into healing was “deemed, wrong, barbaric, or less-than by colonizers, and so for a long time, mainstream health has neglected this necessary integration,”

“The pandemic has played a huge role in everyone’s self-awareness around overall health.” It’s increased the “understanding that your health is more than just physical or mental, but an inclusion of all layers of self.”

Though the practice of holistic therapy has existed for centuries, it’s only recently that practitioners in the Western hemisphere have begun integrating it into their practices.

Types of Holistic Therapies

• Cranium Sacral Technique
• Acupuncture
• Biomagnetism
• Reiki
• Massage
• Breathing & Relaxation
• Yoga
• Body Talk
• Emotion Code & Body Code
• Tai-Chi
• Meditation

Benefits of Holistic Therapies

Evidence, rather than anecdotes, has helped bring credibility to using holistic therapy in the mental health space.

There’s an emerging and growing body of research around the benefits of holistic therapy.

Peer-reviewed research suggests that holistic therapy can help improve overall mental well-being and may offer benefits for:

• depression
• anxiety
• stress
• cognitive function
• family communication
• addiction
• trauma
• chronic pain

Where to find a therapist

My name is Marcela Solis, a Biomagnetism therapist.  I work with magnets in negative and positive polarities.  I apply them on the body.  Their mission is to balance the bioelectrical flow of the body and in doing that; the pH of the targeted organs gets restored, causing that the pathogens get eliminated.  Therefore, the body start recovering its wellbeing.  This is a very powerful therapy.