Publications | In search of soul

Forthcoming publication

In Search of Soul: An invitation to the journey of becoming.

Kindle Direct Publishing
Due to be published in early 2025.

Extract from the back cover:

In this book, the author explores the journey of becoming a person, of finding our way home to our deepest, truest self. She calls it the soul journey. She shares with us aspects of her own and others' soul journeys and offers us her own way of making sense of soul and of its journey through life. As a person-centred therapist and spiritual accompanier, she draws primarily on the philosophy and theory that underlies the person-centred approach. At the same time, she draws too on the wisdom to be found in other therapeutic approaches and in the world's major spiritual traditions.

She also introduces us to a new way of thinking about spiritual practice, explores a number of different pathways to the soul and shares with us a range of resources that she and others have found helpful in their journeying. These include self-reflective questions, creative activities and spiritual practices that are designed to enable us to make time for soul in the midst of busy lives and to connect more deeply with our innermost self.

Sacred Space: Embracing the spiritual in person-centred therapy.
Kindle Direct Publishing 2014
Available on Amazon.

Extract from the back cover:

At one level, this book is an impassioned plea for the field of counselling and psychotherapy to take more seriously the spiritual dimension of human existence and to ‘put the soul back in psychotherapy’. At another level, the book constitutes an in–depth exploration of a spiritually oriented person-centred approach which is based on an integrative therapeutic model called the core self model.

The author traces the journey of the self through the stages of life and looks afresh at the process of becoming a person that Carl Rogers first described over fifty years ago. In so doing she draws not only on humanistic person-centred theory and practice, but also on the truths to be found in the world’s major spiritual traditions.

From the foreword by Professor Brian Thorne:

‘It is in the person-centred approach that Kaitlyn has experienced a gate-way into the world of spiritual reality with all its unknowns and challenges. With meticulous care the reader is guided into this terrain with exemplary skill and no little passion. The result is a book which serves as an admirable text for those in training as well as an invaluable resource for seasoned practitioners who are perhaps less familiar with the role of the person-centred therapist as a spiritual companion. Readers will also be inspired by encountering an author who often writes in a style of rare beauty and expresses complex thoughts with exquisite clarity. The pages on ‘soul love’, for example, constitute one of the finest expositions of this compelling subject that I have ever read. To study this book is in itself to undertake a therapeutic and spiritual pilgrimage which may prove transformative.’

Awakening
A Space for Soul publication

Awakening

Awakening was an online magazine published three to four times a year by a UK-based progressive spiritual community known as Space for Soul. For many years, I was the producer, editor and principle writer for Awakening and in that time, I published over seventy articles on a range of topics relating to progressive Christianity, the spiritual journey and spiritual practices.

These articles are no longer available online but I will be including a number of them in future blog series.