My healing practices expand from my training as a Licensed Psychotherapist. People come to me with a need for counseling, spiritual guidance, or a desire for one of the other healing modalities I offer. I feel we live in a time when we can access new ways to heal our body, heart, and soul. I have chosen healing modalities that connect to and work with the entire person, including the intuitive self. The more awareness we have of our whole being, the more peace we bring to ourselves and the world.

With the founding of the nonprofit One Heart, Inc. in 2009, my practice now includes facilitating events, workshops, and classes to heal the collective soul around social justice issues of racial inequity, peace, and nonviolence. To partner with One Heart, Inc., or to learn more, please get in touch with me at CaSandraMay3@gmail.com

May we be free from suffering,

May we be in peace.

CaSandra May, MS, LCSW, Rev.

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What is my training and experience?

Wayfarer of the Endless Road.     (Salik a fi sabili ilah)

I consciously began my spiritual journey in the late 1980’s. I had begun my profession as a psychotherapist and was introduced to my first spiritual mentor, who was a teacher of Psychosynthesis. Dr. Roberto Assagioli, a pioneer of humanistic and transpersonal psychology, founded Psychosynthesis in the early 1900s. He believed that humans long for a more authentic sense of self, including personal and transpersonal ones. I joined a 2-year program to study and experience the practices of Psychosynthesis. Assagioli was also interested in consciousness, Eastern philosophy, and theosophy. He co-founded the School of Esoteric Studies grounded in the Ageless Wisdom teachings. I became a student of this school long enough to develop a serious curiosity to investigate a variety of major world religions to know more about their shared core of truth and mystical experience.

In the decade between 1990 and 2000, participating in the many opportunities for spiritual exploration and experience became a priority in my life. In the early 1990s, I became a student of Zen meditation, appreciating its structure and discipline. In the later years of 1990, I was introduced to the Inner Focus School for Soul-Directed Energy Healing. The school offered 4-year courses to become an energy healer and a ministerial program working toward a Bachelor in Ministry degree. During these years of study, I found myself interested in Christ Consciousness, having developed a deep connection with the wisdom teachings of Jesus and mystical Christianity. I graduated as a certified energy healer and was ordained by the Inner Focus Church as an Interfaith (Interspiritual ) minister in 2002.

I had been introduced to Sufism as part of the teachings in Inner Focus. I fell in love with this universalist path that embraced diverse world religions devoted to self-realization, one’s soul, and the true nature of one’s being. I became a mureed of the Chisti order (Inayati) in 2003, and in 2004 attended Suluk Academy, a 4-year school founded by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. The ultimate purpose of this contemplative training was to support the natural unfoldment of the soul in life, culminating in the deepened realization and the experience of awakening to the reality of the unity of being.

In 2005, I opened my psychospiritual center, combining a psychotherapy practice and a spiritual guidance program. During the years spent at Suluk Academy, I was introduced to the Diamond Approach work founded by Hameed Ali. After I graduated from Suluk in 2008, as a representative, I was also initiated into the Sufi Healing Order. I developed a 3-year spiritual development program that interwove the various teachings and practices I had learned and experienced since the onset of my spiritual journey. The teachings of Sufism and Hameed Ali naturally dovetailed for me. In 2011, I  became a student of the Diamond Approach. I continue to study and participate in this work as a member of the Midwest group.

For more information, contact casandramay3@gmail.com.