Unlocking Freedom: How Energy Healing Moves Beyond Traditional Therapy
She Lost Her Mom at 6. Spent Years in Therapy. And Still Something Wasn’t Healed.
That’s where Part 2 of my conversation with Rima Desai begins.
In Part 1, we went into the story — the childhood grief, the spiritual gifts that showed up early, and a soul-redirecting season in Tanzania that ended when her daughter’s soul called her elsewhere. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, go back. Right now. It’s worth it.
Part 2 is the work.
What Traditional Therapy Can — and Can’t — Do
Rima did the work. Years of it. She pursued a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and made a conscious decision that if she was going to help others heal, she had to go through rigorous therapy herself. For two and a half years, she used her pocket money to see one of her professors — a therapist she describes as truly excellent at his work.
And it helped. It transformed her understanding of herself. But it didn’t go far enough.
“Therapy did not do enough, but it did help me transform.”
That distinction matters. Rima isn’t dismissing therapy — she’s pointing to something most of us don’t talk about openly: there are layers of pain that verbal processing alone cannot reach. Not because therapy failed, but because some wounds aren’t just cognitive. They’re energetic. They’re ancestral. They’ve been passed down through generations without anyone ever naming them.
That’s where energy healing enters.
How Inherited Trauma Lives in the Body
One of the most powerful moments in this conversation was when Rima explained what Advanced Family Tree and Lineage Work actually is — and why it goes deeper than anything she’d encountered before.
“Imagine 10 people smoking in a room with the windows and doors shut. That smoke doesn’t just vanish. It sits. And the family tree that needs to flourish starts falling because the roots are dying.”
That’s inherited trauma. It’s not something someone did to you consciously. It’s the unresolved grief of your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents — sitting in your body, in your cells, in your DNA — until someone decides to do something about it.
Rima calls Spiritual Response Therapy the foundation of this work. She describes it as 100 levels of Reiki together — not a casual comparison. It goes into the soul’s patterns across lifetimes and asks a simple but radical question: why is this person suffering? And where are the roots?
“If you’re not seeing the results in three months, you need to either talk to me or change who you’re working with.”
I appreciated that directness. As someone who sought a grief counselor specifically after losing my sister, and who now works with a relationship counselor, I know the difference it makes when you seek someone who is truly specialized in what you’re dealing with. Rima says the same thing — and adds that titles don’t always reflect depth. Ask what work the practitioner has done on themselves. That matters more than credentials alone.
What ‘Going Beyond’ Actually Looks Like
Rima’s tagline is Go Beyond and Make Miracles Possible. I asked her what that means in practice — not spiritually in theory, but in the everyday decisions a woman makes.
Her answer was grounding.
She started her career at 37, newly divorced, with $0 in the bank, a six-year-old daughter, and no family support in the United States. Today she owns a home. And she doesn’t see that as the finish line.
“I’m gonna say, what is my next step to grow individually, internally, and for her?”
Going beyond, in Rima’s world, isn’t a destination. It’s a commitment to consistent effort, an open mind, and a willingness to explore what feels unfamiliar or even scary. It’s not about greed or ambition. It’s about refusing to accept that this — whatever pain, whatever limitation, whatever inherited story — is all there is.
The Rapid Round
We closed with a few quick questions. Here’s what Rima said:
Healing is not — optional.
The version of me at 6 needed — a mother. And my best friend gave it to me through his mother.
I go beyond when — I came to Arizona, United States, and hated being here and said my life is over. It wasn’t.
The version of me today knows — there is so much more truth than what I can logically make sense of. And I don’t need to figure it out today.
This Is the Kind of Conversation You Pass On
Across two sessions, Rima gave this audience something rare — the wound and the wisdom. The story and the work. She trusted this space with both, and I don’t take that lightly.
Her work is for the woman who is done surviving and ready to go beyond.
Connect with Rima at the link below. And if this conversation touched something in you — share it. Pass it to a sister, a friend, a daughter, a woman you know who is still carrying something she’s never named.
She deserves language for what she’s holding.
— Deneen 🖤
