Is There a Difference Between a Sound Therapist and a Sound Healer?

Is there any difference between a therapist and a healer?
There is indeed a difference between a therapist and a healer.

A therapist is a person who is trained in using a method or a set of specific techniques which are applied and can be used to help or assist another person who may have physical, emotional, mental health problems, issues or concerns. A healer is generally accepted to be a person known to have a special gift spiritual or otherwise which has been handed down through a family, gifted from another person or possibly simply born with a special healing gift.

A ‘healer’ is defined as a person who claims to be able to cure a disease or injury using special powers.

A sound healing therapist / practitioner is a person who is trained in the use of sound healing therapy methods and would normally use a holistic approach in order to help restore balance to an individual’s energy field at a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual level.

There is a difference between a sound healer and a sound healing therapist or practitioner from the point of view that some people have the gift of healing and become know as a 'HEALER' whilst another person will train and learn professionally specific techniques and a structure or system of applying those techniques in a therapy session situation.

Everything is made of energy, from the tiniest particle within an atom to the solar system and everything in between including our human body. It is a widely accepted fact that our bodies are comprised of pure energy, and vibration fields of energy and this knowledge is now becoming mainstream science.

The trained sound healing therapist focuses their attention from a holistic viewpoint on the overall human energy field and on particular areas of the body where this life-force energy may have become blocked or stagnant, in an attempt to help bring balance, harmony and a state of homeostasis to the person’s body where there may be sickness, illness, pain, injury or disease.

Some of the most popular instruments used for sound healing include; Tibetan singing bowls, Crystal quartz bowls, Tuning forks, Gongs and voice toning.

The aim of the sound healing therapist / practitioner is not to treat, heal or cure. The aim of the sound healing therapist is that by applying certain learned techniques and applications, the therapist / practitioner attempts to activate and stimulate healthy physiological activity in the body to assist the natural inner healing ability of the body to heal itself.

Sound healing techniques are methods of using sound healing instruments to help the healing process in your own or another person’s body. These are applied using various sound healing instruments such as: