This research assesses what may be contributed to counselling through developing practice which is centred on a feminist psychospiritual model. This is a qualitative study which analyses a series of in depth, semi-structured interviews, as I discuss transpersonal and psychospiritual forms of practice with each of the research participants. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is selected to analyse the data collected. After conducting the IPA study, the findings and discussion address the potential for transpersonal approaches within a new approach which is provided as a stepped model of guidelines for relevant cases. The study concludes that Collaborative Pluralistic counselling could include a focus on spirituality for relevant clients and within this approach, a psychospiritual model may be offered within collaborative pluralistic therapy.

This paper explores the possibilities for creating sacred spaces in pluralistic therapy. It examines how the counsellor can achieve client transformation using shamanic methodologies within a flexible Collaborative Pluralistic framework of counselling and psychotherapy. It addresses gender issues in relation to therapy and spirituality, by examining feminist forms of therapy and female constructs of spirituality. The results of practitioner research undertaken in the UK by a pluralistic counsellor and psychotherapist are presented, exploring relationships between shamanic methodology and the Psychological Spiritual paradigm in therapy. The paper explores how spiritual experiences may be constructed through a qualitative inquiry involving fieldwork and interviewing. It concludes that Collaborative Pluralism’s emphasis on providing a humanistic and collaborative experience of therapy allows clients a constructivist experience of counselling and psychotherapy. This epistemological position offers possibilities for creating sacred space in therapy, by supporting a broad interpretation of female constructs of spirituality.