• True Healing Unites the Body, Mind, and Spirit

    I weave psychological insights with spiritual understanding and practices to help you connect to your authentic inner voice. Together we will listen and trace the way you’ve been conditioned to think, feel, and react. I will invite you to practice change, guiding you back to your heart.

  • About Tess Amidan, PhD.

     Arrive • Connect • Transcend

    Tess Amidan
    With over a decade of dedicated practice, I integrate clinical expertise with ancient wisdom and bio-energy principles to offer a holistic and integrative approach to healing. Holding a PhD in Clinical Psychology since 2014, I combine scientific knowledge with intuitive insights, embracing the body's energy system—including thoughts, emotions, and physical symptoms - to guide clients on their personal journeys of awakening.

     

    Trained in Bioenergy Balancing and as a Shamanic Practitioner since 2011, I also graduated from the 13 Moon Mystery School and practice as a Scent Priestess with the Emerald Temple. This diverse background enriches my approach, allowing me to blend scientific and intuitive methods in a way that honors each client's unique healing path.

     

    Passionate about seeing my clients thrive, I value the natural pace of individual healing, and believe deeply in the power of love as a transformative force. By helping clients uncover and accept their true selves, I support their blossoming to the full potential, celebrating them each step of the way.
  • Saying YES to Life

    Weaving the path: what to expect in our sessions

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    Growth

    Personal growth is vital for everyone, regardless of traumatic events or clinical diagnoses. We all face challenges and periods of discomfort, which signal areas for growth. Embracing discomfort as a chance for change, combined with awareness and the energies of love and acceptance, helps us transform and learn.

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    Transformation

    Some life events profoundly transform us, such as trauma, major change, or expanded consciousness. Integration is key to grounding your self and your new awareness in the present moment. This process fosters resilience, growth, and acceptance of your multifaceted nature.

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    Balance

    In our session, we'll explore how your body, mind, and spirit interact as we discuss your life events. This deep dive into your body's energy helps illuminate emotional challenges and reveals how thoughts, emotions, and memories manifest as energy. We’ll also examine how to balance and navigate this energy through physical and emotional cues.

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    Plant Medicine

    The essential oil blends I create reflect my approach to healing, offering subtle yet powerful support. These blends, received as intuitive recipes, use plant wisdom to bring unconscious shadows to light and aid in the integration process. They serve as a gentle invitation to healing when you’re ready.

  • Temple Oils

    Codes Of Light 

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    Essential oils have long fascinated me. As a Scent Priestess, I began receiving intuitive recipes for oil blends, each with a a unique etheric signature and distinct healing potential. These blends, which I continue to receive, serve as Codes of Light that help align us with our Light Body and true selves beyond the ego’s narrative. Ideal for shamanic journeying, spiritual retreats, or daily use, they support ongoing transformation and spiritual growth.

  • Temple Oils Shop

    Oils can be used for deep release and connection to the divine. These anointing oils, called Codes of Light, are blended with specific intentions for deep transformation and healing. They are organic, sustainable and ethically sourced. I trust they'll bring you great joy and healing. Browse the products and see what is resonating with your body's needs!
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  • Testimonials

    CM, California

    “I’ve worked with Tess for several years now. She goes beneath the surface. Tess has helped me come out of my shell and into my wholeness. She holds a safe, clear space to explore within.”

    JC, California

    "Reviving ancient sacred feminine practices, combining her wondrous talents, Tess’ Sacred Anointing Ceremony was a magical, profound, soul-shifting experience for me.

     

    I came away feeling calm, expanded, revitalized and rebalanced in body, mind and spirit. New revelations linking current physical sensations with past emotional trauma are continuing to surface and heal one month out.

     

    There’s a feeling I’m IN my body like never before, with a sense of tremendous ongoing healing on the physical and the subtler planes. A broader clarity has installed itself which feels like I’m often flying with Hawk. What a blessing to be experiencing feelings of freedom and expansion during this time of great change and uncertainty.

     

    Much Gratitude to Tess for sharing this new expression of love with us."

    TS, California

    "In 2018, nearing the age of 50, I found myself in Tess’s office, overwhelmed with the realization that the whole of my life had been undergirded by previously undiagnosed PTSD and an accompanying rage against existence.

     

    Professionally, I’d unwittingly landed myself in a toxic work environment . . . because trauma needs trauma. And personally, I was at the end of my emotional rope with the world at large. I did not see how or why I should continue trying to navigate humanity’s hopeless absurdity, depressing self-centeredness, and dangerous incompetence.

     

    Which is to say, life was looking and feeling pretty grim.

     

    I’d already done decades of self-exploration, recovery and wellness work to get past addiction, codependency and depression for some semblance of a functional adulthood. At 50, I simply could not accept that I might spend another 5-15 years of my life trying to disentangle myself from PTSD. Unlike previous challenges, this beast felt fused into the very bones of my being. I knew I needed an exponential shock to my system, and it was with that mindset that I went in search of the mental health care that led me to Tess.

     

    The deep expertise, empathy and intuition that Tess brings to her holistic healing fundamentally transformed my consciousness and changed my life. She held space for my rage in the beginning. She guided me through journeys to expand and mature my heart, mind and spirit. And she expertly worked with me to integrate transformative insights into my day-to-day life.

     

    My work with Tess has resulted in profoundly positive effects. I have no doubt the 2 years’ of work we’ve done would have taken me 5 or more years without Tess, and even then, I don’t know that I’d be operating with the depth of spirit and connection that I now have with myself, with humanity, and with the universe at large. Rather than perpetually slogging through PTSD, I find myself living in peace, possibility and joy.

     

    If you are in pain, afraid, hopeless, doubtful, enraged, in despair, in trauma, Tess can help you heal. If you are curious, open, willing, in wonder, Tess can help you grow. Work with her seriously, and you’ll never be the same."

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    San Mateo, CA, USA
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