Giggling Gurus offers coaching, teaching, and embodied pathways toward wholeness for those who are tired of trying to fix themselves—or others.
Depth-oriented coaching and teaching for integration, recovery, and wholeness—rooted in lived experience, not self-fixing.
This work invites a return to intuitive inner wisdom: the part of us that knows when to soften, when to listen, and when a quiet smile or gentle laugh is not avoidance, but insight.
The “giggle” is not spiritual bypassing or denial.
It’s the moment awareness meets the unconscious without force—the recognition that healing, growth, and integration don’t always emerge through effort, but through presence, attunement, and right relationship with what is already here.
I create a grounded, integrated space for individuals navigating personal growth, anxiety, addiction recovery, attachment patterns, grief, and significant life transitions. This work supports those who may feel stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly searching for meaning, stability, and a more authentic way of being.
From this place, growth becomes less about self-improvement and more about integration—less about becoming someone new and more about remembering what has always been intact within you, and allowing that to emerge through lived experience.
This approach integrates contemplative psychology, embodied awareness, and lived experience rather than technique alone.
Who I Am
My name is Spencer. I’m an Empowerment Coach and PhD Student in East–West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. My work is informed by depth psychology and contemplative wisdom traditions, from Carl Jung’s work with the shadow, archetypes, dreams, the collective unconscious, to Buddhist and Daoist approaches with suffering, balance, inner harmony, Hindu philosophy and Integral Yoga as articulated by Sri Aurobindo, and mythic frameworks, transformative human experiences, and rituals for connection and healing, shaped by Joseph Campbell.
Alongside psychological and philosophical study, I work with sound, symbol, and presence — drawing from dhvani (the resonance beneath words), quantum listening, and shamanic and ancestral healing traditions that understand transformation as relational, embodied, and transpersonal. These lineages inform how I listen, how I speak, and how I accompany others through change.
I have been called to this work as someone who experienced a profound inner transformation after years of addiction, crippling anxiety, tragic loss, a disconnection from authenticity, and discovered that meaning, wholeness, relationship, and empowerment emerge not by fixing what is broken, but by turning toward what has been exiled, unheard, or forgotten.
Lineage & Perspective
I carry both European and Indigenous ancestry, and this informs how I understand healing — not as an individual achievement, but as something relational, communal, and intergenerational.
In Indigenous traditions, healing is inseparable from land, community, and belonging. In Western psychology, healing often centers the individual mind. My work lives in the conversation between these worlds.
How I Work
My approach is grounded, trauma-aware, and relational. I don’t rush insight, bypass pain, or spiritualize suffering.
Instead, we work with what is present — in the body, in relationship, and in daily life.
Awareness before change
Compassion paired with conscious action
Nervous-system-aware pacing
Practical integration into everyday life
Whether we’re working with addiction, relationships, identity shifts, or grief, the focus is always on what can be met — here and now.
Who This Is For
Letting go of substance use or compulsive coping
Navigating or recovering from abusive or enmeshed relationships
Moving through grief, loss, or major life transitions
Seeking a grounded spiritual life without bypassing your humanity
Supporting Indigenous youth or communities in healing and empowerment
This work may be supportive if you are:
You don’t need to see yourself in every line. If something here resonates, that’s enough.
There is no expectation that you arrive clear, ready, or fixed.
Curiosity is enough.