Principles of Healing: A Discussion

[Diana]

What I mean is a therapeutic or maybe shamanic approach. (I am NOT talking about psychoanalysis, which many think about when talking about therapy).
In short, this requires ultimately getting to the very root of the issue, distortion or how you want to name it.
You are going back to the very situation the issue developed.
In the case of lets say sexual abuse in childhood, you are re-experiencing (it takes quite some time to get there) the very situation when this happened in your early life.
But this time you are experiencing it consciously with support from a therapist or shaman.

I know a little about shamanic work—soul retrieval for instance, and inner child work. I'm wondering, from your experienced point of view, is this something that must be done in person with the shaman/therapist or can it be done long distance? And, if a person does this inner work by one's self, do you know of ways to get to the blocked-off trauma and support one's self when actually re-experiencing the trauma?