Caroline Shahbaz is a colleague, mentor and friend who I am so happy to talk to today. She is a meta psychotherapist, who is deeply experienced and who has trained in many different therapeutic modalities. She is a Clinical Psychologist, has a masters degree in Depth Psychology, is trained in Family Constellations work, is a certified in providing psilocybin assisted therapy and has trained in many wisdom traditions and modalities. Caroline is also a member of the kink community and she trains other therapists how to work with Kink and BDSM.
We talk about how relationships are crucibles for our transformation and growth throughout our lifetime. They trigger our core wounds so that we may heal and burn away who we think we are. We learn how to be in relationships through our family system and internalise much of this from our parents and caregivers, but we are born into a cultural narrative or story that shaped you and often our growth is about reclaiming part of that or alternatively it may be about letting go what we no longer need.
You will also hear:
Understanding the midlife narrative through the Jungian Lens. We also apply an astrological frame to it (Neptune square Neptune),
How our hormones and the changing hormonal cocktail we have facilitates changes through our lifetime,
Understanding the deeper architecture that drives the general level of dissatisfaction in midlife many of us experience,
The Hero and Heroines Journey and how they are an archetypal framework for the many initiations we face in our lifetime,
The concept of the Shadow and how it plays out in our relational life,
The different alchemical stages of relationship transformation.
Caroline runs a program called Transforming Relationships that is for couples and individuals who want to explore themselves deeply in a group container.
You can find Caroline at Transformingrelationships.com.au or metapsychotherapy.com