The Witch’s Therapist, a holistic psychotherapy clinic in London Ontario devoted to guiding people through deep inner transformation using ritual, shadow work, and integrative modalities, is proud to announce the release of a new publication, titled “Embracing the Messiness of Healing: the ‘Goo’ Phase”.

This deeply reflective piece examines the often unacknowledged, chaotic, and uncomfortable middle territory in healing, which they call the “goo phase”. In this phase, transformation is neither neatly beginning nor fully resolved.

Healing is often portrayed as tidy, sequential, and objective. However, experiential research and many therapeutic traditions show healing to be cyclical, messy, embodied, and deeply personal. “Goo” is the messy, liminal stuff that often precedes insight, repair, or transformation. Recognizing it may shift how people in counselling are supported.

In a culture that prizes clean transitions, immediate results, and polished narratives, many people feel pressure to skip over or suppress the “in-between” parts of healing. The messy emotional turmoil, the contradictions, the uncertainty, the regression, and the unexpected insights. The “goo phase” of healing embraces these liminal spaces as not just necessary but deeply potent. It invites readers to honour the vulnerabilities, discomforts, and rawness that come with real growth, as well as the beauty and strength that arise out of them.

The Witch’s Therapist intends this publication as both encouragement and guide for those walking this middle ground, whether in personal psychological work, ritual or spiritual practice, relational healing, or creative expression.

The publication highlights how healing rarely follows linear paths. Moments of clarity often alternate with doubt. The “goo phase” is a place of confusion, where meaning is not yet formed, old parts emerge, and we may feel stuck. What was previously buried comes to light, but hasn’t yet been addressed.

Tools such as journaling, ritual, internal family systems, somatic experiencing, dream work, and other introspective practices are explored as methods for navigating the goo. The piece emphasizes that emotional and spiritual integration often requires ritualized acknowledgment of pain, longing, loss, and love.

Many people feel ashamed or discouraged by the messiness of healing, believing they’re “doing it wrong” when they don’t see clear, linear progress. However, The Witch’s Therapist seeks to reframe that mess as part of the process. It’s a space where creativity, resilience, and deeper integration are born. It’s especially resonant for individuals engaged in spiritual work, trauma recovery, identity exploration, going through difficult transitions, or seeking a holistic approach to depression.

By naming the “goo phase,” The Witch’s Therapist aims to dismantle harmful narratives of perfection in healing. This release offers permission to be messy, to retreat, to iterate, to feel, and to grow.

Based in London, Ontario, The Witch’s Therapist blends ritual, somatic practice, shadow work, and intuitive psychotherapy. The services are offered to individuals, groups, and through online formats, focusing on conscious healing through acknowledgment of the unseen, the uncomfortable, and the transformative. The Witch’s Therapist works to foster healing that is honest, embodied, and whole, celebrating all phases of the journey, especially those we’re taught to hide.

The new publication is available for free on The Witch’s Therapist’s website. Those interested in learning more are encouraged to contact the clinic.

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