Clinical Training & Consultation
Bringing Spirituality into Mental Health Care with Integrity and Depth
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Reimagining Mental Healthcare with Spirit at the Center
At IMHU, we believe that optimal wellness comes from integrating body, mind, and spirit — not just treating symptoms, but helping people cultivate purpose, meaning, and a deeper relationship with their own inner guidance.
Dr. Emma Bragdon, PhD — founder of IMHU, and pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence — offers clinical training, supervision, and consultation to healthcare professionals and organizations ready to expand into the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of care. Under her direction IMHU is now forming partnerships with other organizations seeking training for the providers who work for them.
This work isn’t about becoming more religious. It’s about becoming more whole — and bringing that wholeness into your work with others.
Clinical Consulting for Organizations
Dr. Bragdon works directly with mental health clinics, hospitals, wellness centers, and integrative care programs to help them assess and enhance their spiritual competency. Her approach blends clinical credibility with decades of experience in spiritual caregiving, systems change, and education. As a consultant, she can:
Offer strategic guidance for integrating spirituality into your clinical framework
Evaluate your team’s current approach through a body–mind–spirit lens
Provide a written report with clear recommendations and next steps
Assist in developing new spiritually-informed curricula or service lines
Train your staff in identifying and ethically supporting spiritual emergence
Benefits of Working with a Trained Provider
For clinicians, peer specialists, and leaders seeking 1-on-1 consultation, Dr. Bragdon provides:
Guidance on navigating spiritual emergencies in clients
Support for strengthening your own spiritual practice and intuition
Coaching on reducing reliance on psychiatric drugs where appropriate
Referrals to holistic psychiatrists or evidence-based integrative providers
Mentoring in how to support clients through non-ordinary states and mystical experiences
All care is delivered through the lens of wholeness — body, mind, spirit, and community.
Experience That Speaks for Itself
With over 45 years of experience in mental health and spiritual caregiving, Dr. Bragdon brings unparalleled insight to this work. Her background includes:
PhD in Transpersonal Psychology
Licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist since 1988
More than 60 guided trips to Spiritist healing centers in Brazil
Clinical Supervisor, Guide and Workshop Leader for thousands of professionals and seekers worldwide.
Deep study and teaching within Native American, Buddhist, Yogic, and Brazilian Spiritist traditions
Author of 7 books, including the classic Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis
Co-producer of two documentary films on integrative healing
Creator of the Spiritual Emergence Coach® Certification Program
Over a decade of body-oriented training in Neo-Reichian and Breathwork modalities
A Personalized Approach to Spiritual Care
Learn about intuitive gifts of clairsentience (deep empathic sensing) and clairvoyance (clear energetic perception). These are used carefully and ethically to guide individuals and organizations toward a more attuned and holistic way of working.
She has personally experienced and fully integrated the full range of spiritual emergence phenomena. Her work is grounded in compassion, discernment, and the belief that expanded states of consciousness are invitations to growth, not pathology.
Words of Praise for
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“I found Emma to be a person who walks that fine line between holding space for each person to take self-responsibility, and also being there as a loving support as each one’s own unique experience unfolds.”
L. Davidson
Michigan
“Dr. Bragdon is on the leading edge of issues that must be addressed if we are going to realize a transformation in the ways in which healthcare is currently conceptualized and delivered.”
D. Arnold,
St. Augustine, FL
“I reached out to Dr. Emma Bragdon several years ago for support and guidance during a spiritual emergence experience. Her coaching and psychotherapy work entailed psychological and social support, as well as the inclusion of spiritual practices to augment other treatments I was receiving. As a Psychologist, I consider myself to be an excellent judge of the quality of support and guidance Dr. Bragdon offers. Let me emphasize that she is stellar and profound in her knowledge of mental health and spiritual emergence, and the compassion, wisdom and clear direction she brought to the task was instrumental in my moving forward to wellness and recovery. Dr. Bragdon is passionate about her work and educating efforts, about being in service and facilitating vision and value-led change for others. She has increased my spiritual competency as both an individual and a psychologist. I am deeply blessed to have reaped the rewards of her work, care and grace on so many levels. Thank you dearly, Emma. With you, a new journey of personal evolution has begun.”
Darius Soon, Director & Practitioner, Radiant Wellness Centre
Want to Learn More?
Schedule a Consultation
To schedule a consultation or request a quote for organizational training:
1 802-674-2919 (Vermont, USA)
EB@IMHU.org
Learning Objectives
Clinical and organizational training on spiritual emergence
Consulting on reducing or tapering psychiatric medications
Mentorship for clinicians developing intuitive and spiritual skills
Helping families or teams support individuals in spiritual crisis
Cross-cultural and Spiritist approaches to mental wellness
Integration of experiences with healers or alternative traditions
Not a Crisis CenterBut a Wise Ally
Dr. Bragdon does not provide acute crisis intervention services. All work is collaborative and best used as part of a coordinated care team.
She supports transformation, not stabilization alone, and provides grounded guidance for long-term healing.
A Message from Dr. Bragdon:
“I’ve lived this path. I’ve moved through spiritual emergency, loss, psychic openings, and the challenge of bridging worlds. I know how overwhelming it can feel — and I know how powerful it can become. This is why I teach. This is why I guide. We are meant to evolve, and we need systems that honor that.”
— Emma Bragdon, PhD