About...
Hi, I'm Dr. Kripa Love
I'm a trauma informed, neurodiveristy-affirming, LGBTQ+ allied, grounded, practical, relational practitioner who is wholeheartedly Devoted to Love.
It is not unheard of that my work has been written off as meaningless by people who unironically call it “woo woo”. That makes sense. But that is only because they confuse me for someone who may reach for such terms to fluff up places where there is no substance. I, on the other hand, am reaching for words that more precisely describe the magnitude of the energetic shift happening to the relational field of the collective consciousness, and I easily fall short without using spiritual terms. I am being as literal as I can about experiences that are ineffable. I bring grounded, practical, rigorous, and clear thinking into conversation with spirituality.
I have a PhD in Western Analytic Philosophy (BA 1st Class from Reading, BPhil Oxford University, PhD University of London) where I researched the intra-personal dynamics of spiritual transformation and expounded a model that can be generalised to other transformation processes: in a nutshell, transformation involves a necessary spiralling interaction between cognition, affect, and praxis. This means, what we belief what we feel and how we behave all influence one another and must all change in a significant way for transformation to occur, and to hold. The last 8 years I have put my models into practice with clients, refining my practice based on the results, over many iterations. Now I have simplified, implemented and embodied the process. I have found ways to work at all three levels, combining modalities in a unique way, and bridging these practices (involving belief work, emotional processing, and living on purpose) to support clients to navigate transformation more gracefully.
Photo: Kripa dressed for ritual with Amma (giver of my spiritual name "Kripa" which means "Divine Grace")
I have synthesised the three essential dimensions of transformation multiple times over in my own life (it's giving Phoenix energy!) and my decades of deep inner work exploring this terrain experientially and my own healing through these transformation arcs informs my professional practice where I guide people to evolve with more grace and ease:
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The cognitive dimension: My PhD - my Giftedness has me research incessantly to integrate multiple working models to coherent and holistic frameworks, and with 15 years of teaching philosophy, meeting other minds where they are and supporting learning.
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The affective dimension: My Level 3 certification in Internal Family Systems (IFS), 8 years of full time private therapeutic practice with sensitive clients, my own decades of personal work with therapists and healers, and extensive emotional processing for my own intense and vivid system.
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The dimension of praxis: I have 24 years of experience with energy healing and spiritual practice and aim to engage consciously in relational practices.
I have traversed realms of consciousness from decades of spiritual practice, to ceremonies with most psychedelics and most plant medicines and longer dietas and trainings with a few Master Teachers, all with the intention of healing my own issues and waking up.
I have had thousands of hours of therapy, healing, and mentorship, and thousands of hours of training and 8 years of full time practice since I founded My Healing Space. I am trained in half a dozen energy healing modalities. I learnt the healing modality of Reiki at 18 years old, and level 2 at 19 years old, the same year as my first Vipassana 10 day silent mediation retreat. I also completed training in theta healing, vortex divine energy healing, shamanic healing, internal family systems therapy (L3 certified), IFIO couples therapy, hypnotherapy, natural wisdom leadership, munay-ki initiation, initiation into therapeutic community leadership, group facilitation training.
I learnt the Barbara Brennan Full Spectrum Healing modality from one of her students in a 2 year course where we practiced giving and receiving energy healings while in Ayahuasca ceremonies. I now work pre-dominantly with Vortex Divine Energy Healing and Internal Family Systems therapy since those are currently my most effective healing tools, especially in combination.
While I am still working on consistency, I can reliably access Self energy almost no matter what is happening now - that “warrior training” has conditioned me to be able to find Self presence in any state of consciousness, find the eye of any storm.
For me, one outcome of this is that I have deep gratitude for the challenges I have faced in this life (including a chronically abusive and neglectful childhood) and an innerstanding of the ways to transform these into the alchemical gold of my unique gifts to this world.
Another outcome is that I can be a skilled companion to you while you find your way home to your love, your calling, your presence and your joy.
My sincere desire is to support healing to facilitate the evolution of human consciousness and the awakening happening now on earth. I offer these containers in service of this intention. My central intention is to live as Love.
My dog Santa is a strong teacher when it comes to Love. We live in a cabin, in a community, on a peninsula, and we love walking on the bay, or the beach, or in the woods, we love reading, writing, healing, dancing, making music, making excellent healthy food, and daydreaming.
With love,
Kripa