Ruth-Helen Camden registered psychologist (PSY0001241154) IST practitioner.
I have been an IST practitioner since 1990, and a registered psychologist since 2006. I still love it. I find people endlessly fascinating – each of us is a mystery to understand, each of us has an inner light to find, a true self to liberate, to love and live from. So I confess that when I’m helping you work through your issues, I have a secret agenda: to reveal the inner treasure that is you, and bring this to life.
Why IST? Because it goes way beyond talk therapy and gets quickly to the bottom of things. Like all IST practitioners I have done years of IST myself and have seen first-hand what it can do.
Before becoming a psychologist I was a qualified naturopath and homeopath. Although I don’t practise these things now, I continue to use the solid foundation of knowledge to understand the many aspects of a person – physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual – and how they make us who we are.
One of the great things about IST is that you are always looking for the source of things. You are not satisfied with quick-fix bandaids, you want real solutions, inner shifts. This takes you to resolutions that are real, tangible, and lasting.
My IST training has included many hundreds (probably thousands) of hours of IST and related meditative practices in the courses and retreats of the Clairvision School. This means my skills are grounded in a vast store of practical experience, and are powered by the depth and clarity I have gained in myself. I know this stuff works. I have seen it for myself.
“In my twenties I rode big motorcycles and went skydiving on weekends. I loved the speed and exhilaration but even so, I was always left wanting more. What would it be like to feel that awake and alive all the time?“
“When I began to do IST and to meditate regularly it all started to change for me. As my insecurities fell away I saw how much I had been limiting myself. The world became so much more fascinating. Life had meaning and depth. And best of all, the sense of awakening I had once snatched in fleeting moments of speed or freefall, was emerging as something permanently available. Only now it was coming from within.“
So if you were to ask me why I do what I do, I would say it’s all about awakening. Beyond therapy, what I hope for you is to find this sense of awakening in you. The sense of aliveness that says yes to life. The part of you that says, “I can,” “I will,” and even “I am.”