Monday, August 18, 2025

Free eBook and video teaching - Holding the Inner Child


Holding the Inner Child: Tending the Orphans of Psyche and Soma in Liminal Times

free eBook and video teaching with Matt Licata

Somewhere inside, there is a doorway… and just on the other side waits a child you once were - with all their wonder, vulnerability, and fierce longing to belong.

This free Holding the Inner Child video + eBook is an invitation to open that door, sit beside them, and listen.

A small doorway into a larger world...

Learn more/ register at no cost here 


In times of uncertainty, transition, and unknowing, a unique doorway appears for inner work. There are feelings, experiences, visions, symbols, and images which are simply not available in times when things are clear and the status quo is intact.

There is a group of inner soul travelers within us that I sometimes refer to as the orphans of psyche and soma, who carry the unlived life on our behalf. They dwell in the psychic underworld, in an area within the spectrum of consciousness known as the shadow, the somatic unconscious, or in our neural networks, in subcortical and bodily circuitry.

It is from here, in a partly frozen and crystallized state, that they reach out to us – not to harm or take us down, or as an obstacle on our path, but as the very path itself. They long to find us and to return Home, to disclose their essence, and to help us find our way into the embodied felt experience of wholeness, connection, and Unity with all that is.

In times of liminality and in-between, there can be a unique opportunity to reconnect with these ones, to illuminate and hold them, and to enter into communion with them, which unveils a natural aliveness within us, the capacity to truly feel, to imagine, to dream, and fully participate in the reality of the sacred world.

Relationship with them removes the veil.

In this video and eBook, we’ll explore:

  • How times of liminality and transition offer a unique opportunity to accelerate individuation and healing
  • Reconnecting with inner pieces of soul who have become lost, frozen, and crystallized by way of trauma and emotional wounding
  • The reality of a group of internal companions unique to each of us – the “orphans of psyche and soma”
  • A short practice you can do each day to reconnect, reimagine, and revision your experience
  • How the soul is always speaking to us and pulling us into a felt sense of Wholeness and meaning




Tuesday, August 12, 2025

From trigger to touch - the emissary of integration


Perhaps we might begin to question our use of the word “trigger” when describing the emergence of emotional or somatic material. In a world already overwhelmed by violence, perhaps we can do better than rely on metaphors rooted in weaponry to describe the tender unfolding of the human heart.

What if, instead of being triggered, we are being touched - by the ghosts of unfelt feeling, by shards of dissociated joy, by fragments of forgotten grief, by the body’s secret longing to be known?

What if these eruptions are not enemies to be managed, but visitors to be tended - messengers bearing news from a deeper realm, asking not to be silenced, but seen?

In this way, we begin to imagine a more sensitive language - one that mirrors the subtlety of psyche and the dignity of the nervous system.

To be touched, stirred, summoned, activated…

Not as pathology, but as portal.

A call into radical friendship with the inner figures we’ve cast out - the wrathful ones, the broken ones, the overwhelmed ones - each an emissary of integration, each a necessary piece of our wholeness.




More information soon on Matt's 6-Week Autumn Online Immersion - Reclaiming the Self


Join the waitlist/ learn more about the next opening of A Healing Space: Matt's Inner Work Group and Community 

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Matt's Spirituality & Healing group re-opening in August



A Healing Space – Companionship on the Healing Path

Explore a contemporary path of embodied spirituality and healing with psychotherapist and author Matt Licata this Fall, starting in August.

Quarterly enrollment – 9 live sessions including guided therapeutic and contemplative practice, conversations about healing and spiritual realization, and time for questions and connection.

>>Learn more about the group and community here

It’s no secret that we are living in unprecedented times. It can feel as if the center has fallen away, as the pace of life accelerates beyond what our nervous systems were ever designed to bear.

For many of us, it’s as though a slow, steady drip of collective stress – cortisol, adrenaline, ambient grief – is entering our tender bodies and hearts, leaving us raw, anxious, or just overwhelmed and unsure about the future.

The high levels of arousal moving through the collective right now are not just “out there” – they take up residence in psyche and soma, and especially in our relationships with one another. There’s a longing that many are feeling: for connection, for safety, for solid ground beneath our feet.

For a healing and spiritual path that honors the role of the body and our emotional lives, our relationships, and the importance of shadow and psychotherapeutic work.

As open, sensitive human beings, we are wired to connect, to love and be loved, to heal and make the journey together.

I want to welcome you to A Healing Space, a unique group and community – and supportive holding environment – for inner work and spiritual companionship. A sanctuary for the heart to be held and unfold.

If you feel drawn to join us in the exploration of an embodied, relational path of healing and spiritual inquiry – that honors the wisdom streams of depth psychotherapy and the world’s great contemplative traditions – I invite you and welcome you here.