Every Therapist Needs a Therapist Sometimes

Copyright 2023 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • November 7, 2023

Paula is a social worker in the social work department of a downtown Boston hospital.   

She had been working with me on the goal of getting happily married, and we were making good progress clearing dysfunctional family system patterns so she wouldn’t reproduce them in her relationships. One day she came in complaining that she had been feeling lethargic and depressed for the last month and she had no idea why.  Further inquiry revealed that six weeks prior, she had helped a woman who came to the Emergency room after being beaten by her husband.  Paula arranged for safe housing and a restraining order against the husband.  Although Paula had done everything she could to keep the woman safe, the woman returned to her husband, and he killed her.  The woman arrived at the Emergency room dead. Paula had to do the paperwork and hadn’t felt right since. 


I was surprised that Paula didn’t recognize that she had been traumatized.  I said, “Do you think you are not human?  You put on your professional social worker uniform when you go into work and that makes you impervious to tragedy, frustration and disappointment?  Professional social workers don’t have feelings?  Inside the costume you are human, and someone you tried to help got herself killed despite your best efforts.  Of course you are traumatized.” 


So, we treated Paula for the trauma, and she felt immediately better.  


Frank is a very experienced Licensed Psychologist and practitioner of Energy Psychology. 

Although he had done a lot of work on himself, he was still experiencing mysterious physical and emotional symptoms of burnout.  He came to me to help him find the missing piece.  Sure enough, he had a series of traumas that were blocked to conscious access, which is why he hadn’t been able to find them.   


I showed him the structure, we followed the HBLU™ protocol to clear it, and his symptoms went away. 


Claira is an emergency room nurse who showed up valiantly every day during Covid.

After a year, she started drinking too much, became depressed and prone to outbursts of anger, and could no longer tolerate social interactions.  Her partner threatened to leave her. Claira, who had never had any kind of therapy and thought that as a nurse, she could just tough it out, realized she had a serious problem that wasn’t going away by itself.  Claira found me through a wholistic nurse who had seen me present at a conference.  I explained to Claira how the unconscious mind and body held emotional patterns that influenced behavior and reactions and even caused physical symptoms.


Although skeptical at first, Claira eventually came to understand that there was more going on inside than she was consciously aware of and stepped up to do the work.   


In the last year, Clara has recovered from burnout and repaired her relationship with her partner. 


We all need a little help sometimes.

At the most fundamental level, we are all multi-level beings with a conscious mind, an unconscious mind, a body and a soul. Despite the roles we play in everyday life, and the skills and abilities we have accumulated as mental and physical health-care providers we all have blind spots about what is running our reactions, behaviors, and maps of reality. Nobody knows everything. We all need help sometimes. 


Healing from the Body Level Up™ methodology (HBLU™) is designed to find hidden patterns of suffering, patterns that no one else can find or even knows where to look.  Even for experienced mental health professionals or people who have been in therapy for years, HBLU is designed to help clear what you haven’t yet been able to find. My mission is to support helping professionals be fully in service so that together we make the world a better place. 


If you or anyone you know has problems you haven’t yet been able to heal, HBLU™ methodology can help you. Especially for healing professionals, if you would like to protect yourself from absorbing negativity from your clients, we recommend you start by watching HBLU™: Heal The Top Five Patterns That Cause You To Absorb Other People’s Problems, Illnesses, And Symptoms

To learn more or schedule an appointment, please call 781-444-6940, email [email protected], or gohere

  

Blessings, Judith   


Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU™) is an innovative, rapid, and powerful new mind/body/spirit healing methodology developed by Judith A. Swack, Ph.D., a Biochemist/Immunologist, Master NLP Practitioner, Mind/Body Healer, and leader in the field of Energy Psychology.  HBLU integrates biomedical science, psychology, hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, applied kinesiology, spirituality and Energy Psychology techniques with original research on the structure of complex damage patterns. 


HBLU™ is so effective because: 

  1. The client's deepest wisdom guides the healing, 
  2. It has menus of well characterized patterns and effective healing techniques, 
  3. It clears blocks to success at the conscious, unconscious, body, and soul levels. 

  

HBLU™ helps people rapidly achieve the results they want to live full, happy, healthy, and satisfying lives. Maybe it can help you, too. Dr. Swack and her associates work with people in person or by phone. Healing from the Body Level Up, Inc. is located in Needham, MA.  Call 781-444-6940 to book an appointment, order a free information package, and order CDs and DVDs.Visit our website.  

By Copyright 2025 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. January 31, 2025
James ’s brother, Samuel , sustained severe traumatic brain injury from a car accident. He spent the year going to many doctors for treatment, but could barely function. Samuel complained that not only did standard medical care not help him, but the doctors ignored and mistreated him. Whenever James suggested any complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or HBLU, Samuel immediately came up with excuses as to why going for that kind of treatment was impossible. (Notice that he didn’t claim that that kind of treatment wouldn’t work. He just made it impossible to get there.) James said, “Even though I feel really guilty about it, I’ve stopped trying to help him because he makes everything impossible.” Monica ’s 25-year-old son, Ed , suffers from such severe debilitating Crohn’s disease that he couldn’t finish high school, can’t work, can’t leave the house, and can barely leave his room. Traditional medical care and medication is not helping. Monica and her husband bought him a dog thinking that would cheer him up, but Ed does not interact with it. Monica has suggested and made appointments for many complementary therapies such as nutrition, naturopathy, family therapy, and HBLU, but Ed refuses to go to these appointments. Monica experiences guilt and deep sorrow that her son is so ill, and she and her husband haven’t been able to help him. Valerie ’s partner, Nancy , is 200 pounds overweight, suffers from ADD and severe anxiety, and hates her job. Nancy had been on medication for the ADD and anxiety, but when her psychiatrist retired, never attempted to find another provider and let her medication lapse. When Valerie suggested that Nancy find new doctors and get back on medication to help her mental function and treatment for overweight, Nancy refused to make any follow-up phone calls or emails. Although they had gotten engaged in the Spring, by Fall, Valerie had asked for the ring back. Valerie said, “I don’t think I can live with her if she refuses to take care of herself and won’t let me help her.” What do James, Monica, and Valerie all have in common? They feel deep sorrow, guilt, and frustration that they can’t help someone they care about deeply. But the people who are suffering are also trapped in a pattern that continues to cause them suffering. Both the impotent helpers and the perpetual sufferers are trapped in a seducer strategy called, “I’m impossible.” What is a Seduction Pattern? Seduction patterns are some of the most energy draining, perverse, and frustrating patterns a person can experience. People with seduction patterns get tricked into doing things they don’t want to do. They are unable to leave bad relationships, jobs, family, or other upsetting situations.
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By S.C. LICSW November 20, 2024
It’s that time again, where I get to shout out another amazing woman. Dr. Judith Swack has changed my life! In fact she has changed our family’s life. I found her in summer of 2023 . There was so much unhealed shit and my body was paying for it. I am 46 years old, and I have been in therapy on and off since I was 13. I’ve had some lovely therapists. I’m also a therapist myself. And I can honestly, wholeheartedly say, NOTHING has ever helped with lasting changes as much as Judith. She’s one of the smartest women I’ve ever met - she’s a neuroscientist + an energy healer. And the work she does - what we do in session - cannot even really explain it. It’s weird as f*ck. And it works!! In the past little over a year, I have managed to change a couple of behaviors I have not been able to change in 20 years. no exaggeration, and not for lack of trying. One of my 11 year old sons was paralyzed by fear of spiders - had a phobia, happened to be with me one day when I had an appointment and was going to wait in the waiting room, she said he could come in even though she doesn’t work with kids. I kid you not, she fixed that sh*t. In one session. He still doesn’t like spiders, but he isn’t frozen in fear anymore - he can get a tissue and pick it up and move on. This is unbelievable. And remember last week when I Saturday spotlighted my financial coach and how my husband’s feeling lonely in that part of our marriage is now getting resolved? Well, before I reached out to my financial coach to begin with, my husband and I had a joint session with Dr. Swack, where she helped heal a piece of our relationship which we’ve been stuck, going in circles for years! That clearing gave me the energy and thought to reach out for financial coaching to begin with… And if you need any convincing that this is the person for healing from trauma, I invite you to reach out and speak with my husband himself…. I % believe in all this energy healing etc, but he is a very logical, rational, no bullshit guy. He doesn’t do therapy. Talk therapy never worked for him, and he thinks it’s a complete waste. And I couldn’t explain this to him - how this is different or what it is. Nor did I try. I didn’t even ever suggest he should go… But when he saw our son get cured of the arachnophobia, and our son is very similar to him, no bullshit, rational, logical, and he said it worked, and we saw it worked he decided to try it… He decided to give it sessions… I think to prove to both of us it was all bullshit. He came home from the first session livid. But decided he would go back. He also came back from the second session angry, and told me all about how he yelled at Dr. Swack and told her it was bullshit… AND how she didn’t give a f*ck what he thought …”it doesn’t matter if you believe it or think it’s bullshit, I’m not talking to your rational mind, I’m talking to your subconscious” she’s told him numerous times… And suffice to say, he’s been about 9x now, and he too, is operating fundamentally differently. Our marriage is operating fundamentally differently. Traumas and patterns we have both carried and acted upon for years seem to be being dissolved. It’s really wild. If you are seeking a trauma healer or healing for anything, I can’t recommend Dr. Swack higher. I once asked Dr. Swack how to explain what she does to people, and she said “tell them I work with your subconscious”. I don’t think that really explains it fully… or maybe it does… either way it’s amazing. S.C. LICSW
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