Is Spirituality Missing from Therapy?

A Call Back to Our Ancestors with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer

What happens when therapy leaves spirit at the door?

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy challenges the Western clinical model’s detachment from the sacred and calls for a return to spiritually rooted healing. With reverence and clarity, she explores how ancestral practices, ritual, and embodied spirituality are not only valid in the therapy room—but vital.

From Brainspotting as modern soul retrieval to breath as prayer, Tracy shares how therapists and clients alike can reconnect with what many lineages have always known: healing is sacred, not sterile.

This episode is a call back—not just to tradition, but to the sacred memory inside the body.

Journal Prompt Listeners

“What did the women, elders, or spirit-keepers in your life do that brought peace—before they had access to therapy?”

“If you could speak to your lineage today… what would your nervous system ask for?”

What Radical Attunement Looks Like with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer

What if survival isn’t the goal—but the beginning?

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores what it means to move beyond surviving into resonance—where the nervous system feels safe enough to be fully seen. With deep grounding in Brainspotting, somatics, and cultural awareness, Tracy names how trauma teaches us to scan and perform, while true healing invites rest, presence, and radical attunement.

She calls the roll across BIPOC, Jewish, Queer, and historically silenced communities, honoring the survival strategies that have carried generations. Then, she shows how Brainspotting supports the return to resonance—not as a clinical outcome, but as a birthright.

This episode is a call to feel, a reminder that being met with presence is not a luxury—it’s liberation.

Brainspotting isn’t just for private practice or clinical jargon—it belongs in the barbershop, the community clinic, the classroom, community associations, ancient healing circles, on the corner, on the catamaran, the veranda during the storm, the living room, under the tree, and the hood. Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic tool—but unlike many modalities rooted in Western clinical systems, it was designed with indigenous communities in mind, given it’s inherent nature towards the dual attunement frame, relational & neurobiological. And, the uncertainty principle.

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy breaks down how Brainspotting honors the language of the people, culture, and brought to the people it was designed to reach; all people—and, absolutely must serve. Drawing from her lived experience as a clinician, trainer, and cultural translator, Tracy reframes neuroscience as a tool for liberation, not elitism.

This is a conversation about access, embodiment, and reclaiming the nervous system’s power—right where people live.