Winding Path Counseling, LLC

12/21/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Christine Kotlarski — a therapist, energy worker, and the founder of High Note Counseling — whose work blends metaphysical practices with mental health therapy to help people reclaim the lost and silenced parts of themselves.

Christine specializes in Reclamation work, guiding clients to release shame, heal generational wounds, and reconnect with their authentic voice.

In this episode, we talk about:
💫 What it means to truly reclaim yourself
💫 Healing shame and unworthiness rooted in generations of conditioning
💫 Blending spirituality, intuition, and therapy
💫 Using Reiki and energy work to shift old patterns
💫 The magic of EVOX bio-energetic feedback for ancestral healing
💫 Christine’s joyful world of orchids, belly dance, crystals, tarot, and dirty chai

Christine also shares her moon-guided women’s circles in Sarasota, FL and her upcoming course Lovenotes to Self, arriving in 2026.

This conversation is an invitation to return to truth, release inherited stories, and reclaim your power.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

12/14/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Liz Hides, a Wholistic Grief and Loss Specialist, Certified Thanatologist, Meditation Teacher, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master whose work brings compassion, depth, and sacredness to the grieving process.

Liz approaches grief as an energetic experience — something that moves through the mind, body, spirit, and environment. She helps clients understand their emotions as the body’s response to loss, and supports them in clearing the heavy or stuck energy around their grief stories.

In this conversation, we explore:
💫 Grief as a mind-body-spirit process
💫 How to shift and release the energetic weight of loss
💫 The power of mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and reiki in grief healing
💫 Navigating sudden or traumatic loss with compassion
💫 The resilience and transformation that become possible when we honor grief

Liz also shares her offerings:
✨ Surviving Guilt After a Loss
✨ Caring for Your Grief Through the Holiday Season

Liz’s wisdom is a reminder that grief is not something to “get over” — it’s something we learn to move with, honor, and integrate as part of our human experience.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

🌐 Learn more or register for her classes: www.healthy-directions.ca

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Amber Bowers, a Holistic Mental Health Counselor, Wellness Coach, and Certified NET Practitioner whose work weaves together the subconscious, the nervous system, the body, and the energy field to create deep, whole-person healing.

Amber supports clients worldwide in healing the emotional roots of physical symptoms, breaking unconscious patterns, and reconnecting with their body’s innate ability to heal.

In this episode, we talk about:
💫 How trauma and stress lodge in the body
💫 Why subconscious healing is essential for lasting change
💫 The power of Neuro Emotional Technique and holistic modalities
💫 Amber’s powerful personal story of chronic fatigue, misdiagnosis, and reclaiming her own healing
💫 What happens when we finally connect the dots across mind, body, emotions, and spirit

Amber also shares how her own healing journey inspired the creation of Bowers Counseling and Wellness, where she now helps clients release patterns they’ve carried for years and step into greater clarity and alignment.

This episode is an invitation to listen to your body, trust your intuition, and explore healing in a way that honors your whole self.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

11/24/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Brandi Rahim, a Somatic Therapist and Intuitive Healer who specializes in helping people heal trauma from the inside out.

Brandi supports men and women in releasing trauma at the cellular level, rewiring subconscious patterns, and breaking free from the old narratives that keep us stuck.

We explore:
💫 What trauma healing looks like through the lens of the body
💫 How subconscious rewiring shifts patterns that haven’t budged for years
💫 The power of somatic therapy, reiki, and intuitive guidance
💫 What happens when mind, body, and soul finally come back into alignment

Brandi also shares her own journey into this work — along with her love of yoga, karaoke, line dancing, beach days, and café adventures.

This is an episode for anyone ready to reconnect with their body, reclaim their truth, and release what no longer belongs.

Connect with Brandi at www.healyouwholeyou.com or on fb/ig at heal_you_whole_you

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

11/16/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Victoria Gore, CEO of Holistic Recovery Services and Licensed Master Addiction Counselor, to explore a truly holistic path to recovery — one that heals mind, body, and spirit.

Victoria’s work is rooted in the belief that true healing comes from releasing attachments, restoring balance, and reconnecting with who we really are beneath the patterns of addiction. Through energy healing techniques and integrative practices, she helps people find freedom, peace, and self-trust again.

We also talk about:
💫 How energy and emotion play into the recovery process
💫 The importance of mind-body-spirit integration
💫 Victoria’s program Mental Fitness for Therapists in Burnout — supporting healers in finding renewal and balance
💫 Her love of astrology, human design, and living in harmony with nature 🌿

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts (link in bio)

11/16/2025

Join us this month as we incorporate a gratitude circle, blessing and burn ceremony.

Bring two items that symbolize your grief journey (personal item, photo, etc), and then something that might represent where you envision yourself in your future healing (crystals, journal, goals, etc).

11/09/2025

New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Emma Donovan, a therapist, spiritual counselor, and functional nutritionist who’s helping people heal at the root cause — mind, body, and spirit.

Emma is the founder of The Holistic & Functional Psychology Institute and a practitioner at Alternative Therapy STL , where she helps clients and clinicians bridge the gap between science and spirituality.

In this conversation, we talk about:
💫 How nutrition, lifestyle, and mindset shape emotional well-being
💫 The art of blending psychology with spirituality in therapy
💫 What true root-cause healing looks like — and why it matters

This episode is an invitation to look deeper — beyond symptoms, beyond quick fixes — and begin reconnecting with the innate wisdom of your body and spirit.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

10/27/2025

✨ New Episode Alert! ✨

This week on The Alchemical Path, I sit down with Dr. Heidi Dalzell, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, author, and lifelong seeker who’s bridging the worlds of science, soul, and psychedelic healing.

With over 30 years of experience, Heidi has been at the forefront of integrating psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy into trauma and eating disorder recovery. She’s certified in Ketamine- and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, MAPS-trained in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy, and mentors other therapists through Journey Clinical as they begin their own psychedelic integration work.

In this conversation, we explore:
💫 The role of psychedelics and plant medicines in embodiment and recovery
💫 How psychospiritual counseling bridges the gap between science and the sacred
💫 The importance of integration — bringing insights from ceremony into daily life
💫 Heidi’s own journey as both clinician and seeker, and her upcoming move to Sedona 🌄

Heidi’s wisdom reminds us that healing is not just about symptom relief — it’s about remembering who we truly are, reclaiming our wholeness, and walking our path with intention.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

🌐 Learn more about Heidi’s work at:
www.talktogrow.com

and
www.soulfulconnectionscoaching.com

10/19/2025

🌿 Empowerment. Connection. Strength. 🌿

We’re excited to partner with Crossfit Una Stamus for this year’s Women’s Wine & WOD! 🍷💪

Join us for an evening of community, movement, and mindfulness. Between workouts and wine, stop by the Winding Path Counseling booth to learn how mental wellness and physical strength go hand in hand.

✨ Explore ways to care for your mind while you challenge your body
✨ Grab an affirmation stone and learn a quick mindfulness tip
✨ Enter to win our self-care giveaway!

Whether you’re lifting weights, lifting spirits, or just lifting your glass—come say hi and connect with us!