This was a question that a person on Quora asked and one that I do believe everyone should know the answer to because it is inherant on those seeking therapy to understand why it is important of one who is going to be employed to do therapy on others to go through their own therapuetic process.
I would have to say that the most competent therapists (healers) are those who have done their own healing processes. Because it is really impossible to understand what your patients are dealing with in that sort of relationship till you have found your way through it yourself.
The problem with too many mental heatlh providers is the fact that they have yet to heal their own issues, bringing them into the therapy with their patients to have truly damaging breaks in boundaries, personalizing things that are not personal, being triggered by the issues their patient raise, projecting their issues onto their patients, or creating very sick co-dependent relationships believing that they are only worthy to the degree that they are needed by their patients for their help.
Look, I have been in this game for nearly 30 years and the best healers are those that are willing to do their own work first – before deciding that they have the right to invade another person’s thinking processes. Because one can’t help another till one helps themselves and even then this work is for a minority of people given the traumas and situations that our clients bring to us to be healed.
So, the best healer is a healed healer. There are others who feel differently – but if you were to ask their patients about the care that was given you would hear the critiques such a the ones I listed above by their patients – because that is how their patient became my client.
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About Suzanne
Suzanne Kellner-Zinck founded Dawning Visions Hypnosis in 2002, She has become an innovator in the use of hypnotism and neuro-linguistic programming in the areas of obsessive compulsive disorders such as: eating disorders, sexual addiction and substance abuse as well as working with those with anxiety and mood disorders.
Her clients have come to work with her from across the United States and as far away as Africa to help them to finally be freed from these emotional issues that once ruled their lives. Today she is in the process of bringing her work to many more in the form of ebooks and other downloadable formats.
She is a member of American Holistic Medical Association and the American College for Advancement in Medicine.
Prior to founding Dawning Visions Hypnosis, Kellner-Zinck worked within vendor programs for the mentally ill working to help them to live up to their fullest potential. Many of her previous clients were able to move out on their own and find fulfilling work.
Kellner-Zinck is a Certified Trainer of Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic programing through Tad James Company, Inc. and a Master Hypnotist and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming through Advanced Neuro Dynamics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education and political studies from Curry College.
Dawning Visions Hypnosis is teaching people that they can indeed leave their unwanted behaviors behind as they move forward to living fulfilling and joy filled lives.