An Open Letter to Witchy Souls Who’ve Been Harmed in Therapy

Dear witchy soul,

If you’ve ever felt like you had to shrink yourself to be understood in therapy, I want to speak to that pain.

Maybe you mentioned your spiritual practice and were met with silence. Maybe your connection to spirit was questioned or explained away. Maybe your grief, your rage, your dreams, your deep knowing, the most sacred parts of you, were treated like problems to fix.

If this has happened to you, it wasn’t okay. And it wasn’t your fault.

I’ve sat with many witchy souls who carry wounds from past therapy. People who went in hoping to be seen and left feeling dismissed and belittled.

Sometimes the harm is subtle: a raised eyebrow at the mention of tarot, a skeptical response when you mention your spirituality. Other times, it’s blatant: misdiagnosis, discrimination or mockery.

Either way, the wound is real.

And I want you to hear this: Your way of healing is not wrong. It’s just not clinical.
It’s ancient.

Traditional therapy wasn’t designed for those of us who walk between worlds. Who track moon phases instead of mood charts. Who receive guidance in dreams and find medicine in earth-based spiritual practice.

Most therapists weren’t trained to hold that. But that doesn’t mean you are unholdable. It just means the container was too small.

You shouldn’t have to dilute your magick to be supported. You shouldn’t have to question your sacred practices just to be taken seriously.

Maybe you softened your words so you wouldn’t sound “too out there.” Maybe you stopped sharing about your connection to spirit. Maybe you started to wonder if the parts of you that feel most alive…were actually broken.

They’re not. They’re sacred.

And protecting them wasn’t weakness. It was wisdom. It was your nervous system choosing safety in an unsafe space. You did what you had to do.

Still, let’s call it what it is: Therapy that shames your magick isn’t therapy. It’s erasure. And you deserve more.

You deserve care that doesn’t just tolerate your witchiness, it honours it. Care that understands trauma and intuition can live in the same body. Care that recognises healing isn’t linear, logical, or always explainable, because soul work rarely is.

And while witch-friendly therapy isn’t the norm, it does exist.

There are spaces where you can safely come out of the broom closet and share about your spiritual gifts, practices or beliefs. Where you don’t have to censor your magick and start every sentence with “You might think this is weird but…”.

There are therapists who will meet you in the mystery. Who won’t flinch at you being a psychic, a mystic, a tarot reader, or a Witch. Who will sit with you, not to fix, advise or save, but to bear witness to your mind, heart and soul.

And if you ever return to therapy, (which I hope you do, because Witches deserve mental health care too), may it be the kind that makes your soul exhale.

With love and solidarity,
Jerry
Therapist, Witch, and firm believer in your Magick