Words That Heal The World
- carolan903
- Jun 2
- 5 min read
June Edition
Feature by Carolan Dickinson
We Are The Same
There are so many mediums who are also counselors, healers, first responders, and psychotherapists. I believe that when working with people, the most important element is healing. And, as the healers that navigate both worlds, it can be challenging to work in the Muggle world.
Most of my Medium friends call me Carolan, but my legal name is Carol. It's not that I necessarily wanted a "stage name," but I had to differentiate between the two worlds, at least on paper. Carolan is a nickname that I adopted for my mediumship. When I graduated from college and started working, I was compelled to be honest with my prospective employer about the fact that I was a medium. I didn’t want to feel like I was hiding anything, and that information was already public. I was a little terrified that someone would find out. When I told my prospective employer, I was promptly uninvited to work there.
I understand how being a Medium in a job like counseling might make some people uncomfortable. Today, I feel that it's a bit like announcing that you're Catholic, Christian, Spiritualist, or Buddhist. It really shouldn't come up in therapy at all because we are not discussing my beliefs, but my clients. However, I wanted to make sure that I was being ethically correct and had an ethics consultation with the American Counseling Association. In that conversation, we discussed dual relationships (such as an accountant and a counselor not being able to serve both roles with the same client) and the importance of keeping those two things separate. In that same conversation, we discussed how, as counselors, we cannot do anything that would bring shame to our profession. I'm not certain, but it did feel like a little shade was thrown in my direction.
I keep those things to myself and have created some privacy on social media to avoid appearing to have a "dual relationship." From time to time, it happens that my clients make the discovery, and I inform them that, ethically, I cannot do both. If they are my client, I am unable to do mediumship with them, and I refer them to some wonderful friends who are mediums.
There has been a shift within the counseling profession to address "attuning to your client," which is another term for blending—and being "intuitive and attending" to what you are feeling in the room with your client. There is one well-known trauma therapist who, during her lectures, openly shares her intuitive experiences with the participants.
It does happen from time to time that mediumship slips out in normal conversations, often during activities like giving examples: "Say you're in a red car and you get hit and bump your head." My client then responds with, "That happened to me in a red car. I still have the mark, see." Then I will say something profound, like "Wow, you do have a mark."
I don't think you can be a therapist and not be intuitive. There are also times when I think the work (blending, attending, and attuning) opens the door for therapists to begin realizing their blossoming mediumship. There are many conversations I have with interns and new counselors about how they are overwhelmed by the experiences they are having in their counseling sessions due to their sensitivity. It took me a while to realize that by not blocking it (more like ignoring it), I did much better and felt more like myself by allowing that power to work through me in all situations. There is no way to separate a medium from their mediumship. We are the same.
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"Focus and Feel" is an opportunity to honor yourself with the gift of soul-nourishing play and self-devotion while improving your photography skills and resting in the support of a community of kindred spirits. This course is to introduce you to my photographic play and inspire you to enhance your creative expression. Specially created with beginners in mind, though more advanced photographers can also benefit.
This course is not so much about technique or being "a good photographer," but rather, it's about bringing in the joy of the moment when beauty is captured. Though your skills as a photographer will be greatly enhanced. It's about a full-body felt sense of being in nature, aligned with your core self and Divinity, with a camera in hand. It's about the transformational power of presence.
Mary Lucille has a practice called Many Roads Photos and Wellbeing... many roads to the self... many roads to the source.
Her background includes being a psychotherapist, social worker, massage and energetics therapist, certified focusing coach, intuitive spiritual medium, inspirational process writer, nature lover, mother, walker of a Scottish Deerhound, and passionate play iPhone photographer. https://www.facebook.com/mary.glynn.16
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