Tom Kirkham - MA in Psychology, Spirituality, and Integrative Health
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I help people cultivate lasting well-being and authentic, connected relationships. My work brings together humanistic and transpersonal psychology, somatic awareness, breathwork, meditation, and contemplative practices - supporting healing on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual levels. I help people develop resilience, clarity, and deeper self-connection so they can experience greater ease, purpose, and emotional freedom in their lives.
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I’ve supported people through a wide spectrum of life experiences, including anxiety, trauma, depression, chronic stress, neurodiversity, relationship struggles, altered or expanded states, and major life transitions. I believe that healing is not about “fixing what’s broken,” but about reconnecting with what is whole, wise, and unconditioned within each of us.
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Today, I serve in two complementary roles. As a Clinical Psychology Intern at Pau Hana Counseling in Hilo, I work with people of all ages - youth, adults, couples, and families - supporting emotional well-being, integration, and healthier relationships.
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In my private practice, I offer transpersonal coaching, breathwork, meditation support, and Emergence Care - a gentle, in-person healing art that helps the nervous system unwind old stress patterns and access its natural capacity for restoration. While each modality stands on its own, they all share the same intention: to awaken your innate intelligence and support a more whole, embodied, and connected way of being.
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My work is rooted in a simple but hard-earned truth: healing is not about fixing what’s “wrong,” but about remembering what is whole, wise, and unconditioned within us.
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I didn’t come to this understanding through theory. In my teens and early adulthood I struggled with anxiety, depression, addiction, and periods of non-ordinary awareness that I didn’t know how to navigate.
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I saw my first therapist at 17 in Austin, and that began a long search for relief and meaning that eventually brought me to Prescott College.
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There, by grace and synchronicity, I met a transpersonal mentor who deeply witnessed me through a dark night of the soul. With their guidance - and through modalities like Vipassana, holotropic breathwork, and time in spiritual community - I learned firsthand that real healing is possible.
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After college, I worked in addiction recovery, youth programs, and psychiatric settings. I cared about the people, but I became disillusioned by systems that pathologized symptoms while ignoring the soul.
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Life brought its own initiations as well - losses, relationship challenges, and later a long battle with Lyme disease in my family. Those years humbled me, broke me open, and eventually clarified my purpose: to support people in healing at the level where psychology, spirituality, and embodiment meet.
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Today, I walk alongside people, couples, and families navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, chronic stress, neurodiversity, relationships, spiritual emergence, and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
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My approach integrates psychology, contemplative practices, somatic awareness, and the transformative potential of expanded states. My ongoing study of Emergence Care has become a meaningful part of that work, offering a gentle way for the nervous system to unwind and return to its natural intelligence.
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At the center of everything I offer is the conviction that healing is a process of remembering and returning -again and again - like the breath in meditation.
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We are not problems to be solved, but beings learning to reconnect with what we already are: connected, capable, compassionate, and whole.
