Louise Devlin, MSc, PgDp
Psychotherapist,
Reiki Master & Shamanic Practitioner in Paisley

 

My journey with Immrama Therapies began with simple intentions: to provide a bridge between clinical mental health support and deep spiritual restoration for the mind, body, and spirit. To honour the old ways with the new, and weave together non-ordinary with ordinary.

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Hearing the Call 
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Ever since I was a child, I felt a connection to spirit. I was sensitive, I would cry easily, and would pray without being taught how to. Spirit communicated with me through the clairs, in my dreams and through premonitions. I spoke with my own spirit guide as naturally as I spoke with friends.​ Free spirited, stubborn, and creative, I felt very guided as a young child to the astral planes, to stars in the sky, and drawn to animals (who I believe are apt at reading human energy and vibration). I was also very in tune with the trees, sounds, and reading people's energy.

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When I closed my eyes I could see space and travel there and connect with galaxies. I felt very connected to Source and to my own soul. I must have been an old soul when I was a little girl, as though I had been here before. And I knew it, instinctively. I looked at the palms of my hands and knew there was energy from Source residing there. I could see auras, especially in rooms, and I could communicate with a few children from other eras who had passed over.
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Heeding the Call
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Yet there came a point where this was dismissed, disregarded, and drummed out of me. The culture I grew up in was not animistic, the old ways lost, and any spiritual leanings I knew of in my community were stemmed from dogma, division, and organised religion. I often felt misunderstood, I masked my intuition, and now I look back and realise I have been neurodivergent my entire life.

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I also see a lot of my generation as the grown-up indigo children, who have rejected much of the traditional, conventional teachings which have been authoritarian in nature because there was trauma in ancestral lines due to wars, power imbalances, and disconnection from nature.

 

In my teen years I inadvertently dabbled with Oujia boards, much to my own detriment as I had no human guides nor mentors nor knowledge on how to open sacred protected space, leaving me open to energy vampires and lurking energy predators. I also experienced years of Déjà Vu, and everyday life was tinged with seeing it from another person's point of view. 
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Initiating the Quest

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It was in my early 20s when I left Scotland for India that my spiritual journey changed course, but the clearing and purge in this direction began years earlier in high school. I remember the worst headaches looking at posters of Hindu deities in religious education; their colours and shapes seemed to jump into my body and pierce the space between my eyebrows.

 

My guides were prompting me to clear unwanted energies, to be in touch with my own chakra system and recall astral projection, yet as a teenager, my mental health drastically plummeted due to unresolved and ongoing trauma. When I finally reached India, it felt like a homecoming, a reunion with higher energies. Navigating that intense dark and light is exactly why I now bridge the gap between spiritual depth and grounded mental wellbeing. It is why I now work as a self-employed youth counsellor in the third sector to provide the compassionate, stigma-free guidance I once sought.
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Being in the World

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In India, I was baptised with the Holy Spirit, mesmerised by the Pentecost Novena and the face of the Mother Goddess found in Mary, while simultaneously embracing Shaktism in Hindu temples. It was a new way of experiencing the world: temples were multifaceted, flowers from Mother Earth adorned altars, and the incense smoke of Father Sky carried the voices of Source in diverse tongues.

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Rather than trying to fit into a rigid religious box, I found a path of simple offerings and a deep connection to the miscellaneous nature of existence. I finally understood that we are simply spiritual beings having a human experience.

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Do you relate to this?

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The Art of Living

​A dark night of the soul in my late 30s called me back to my childhood self. I reclaimed the artist archetype, the ritual of theatre, and the power of storytelling through my first shamanic teacher, after paying attention to the calls of spirit to perceive my mental health as a spiritual emergency, rather than from a pathologised lens. I spent two years in a Shamanic initiation, living somewhat as a hermit, being in nature, connecting to trees as portals, visiting healing waterfalls for purification, and learning to open sacred space safely. I finally experienced healing in a way that has shaped me for who I am today.

Since then, I have worked with many different spiritual and clinical tutors and teachers. I have trained and/ or qualified in: 

 

• Shamanic soul retrieval and extraction

• Shamanic journeying  & altered trance states

• Curse unravelling

• Mediumship, psychometry & channelling 

• Compassionate depossession 

• Vision dance

• Constellation work

• Workshop Facilitation and Circle Holding

• Yoga Nidra

• Continued professional development in complicated & prolonged grief, baby loss, working with sexual trauma, addiction awareness, alcohol brief intervention, suicide prevention, self-harm awareness, working with risk & vulnerable adults and children, trauma informed and trauma skilled practice

• Masters of Science (MSc) in Psychology

• Post Graduate Diploma PgDp SCQF Level 10 Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy

• COSCA Counselling Skills Certificate 

• SCQF Level 5 Introduction to Counselling

• 40 hours of personal therapy as part of my clinical training

• SACC & COSCA Certificate in Counselling Towards Behavioural Change

• ASIST Suicide Prevention 2-day training

• Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society

• Registered member of British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists

• Over 300 hours of supervised clinical counselling for clients

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My astrological stellium in Libra honours balance. To me, science and spirituality are two sides of the same coin. I do not pretend to have all the answers, I do not have a guru, and I am wary of one-size-fits-all healing.

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What I offer is my presence, my compassion, and a scientific and spiritually attuned map for the exploration of this journey we call life. I will never stop learning, exploring, and understanding the depths of the human condition.

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Will you join me on the voyage?​​​​​​​​​​​​​