ABOUT INTENTIONAL-HEALING
A grounded, embodied approach to interrupting patterned emotional and relational responses when insight alone has not been enough.
Orientation
This work is for people who are self-aware, reflective, and tired of repeating the same emotional or relational patterns, even though they understand where those patterns come from.
Many people who arrive here have done therapy, read extensively, practiced mindfulness, or explored spiritual paths. They are not confused, unmotivated, or resistant. Yet despite their insight, they continue to react in ways they do not consciously choose.
This does not mean something is wrong with them. It means understanding alone has not reached where the pattern lives.
Why This work Exists
Most people do not struggle because they lack awareness.
They struggle because their nervous system learned how to respond long before conscious choice was available.
When pressure, intimacy, conflict, or uncertainty arises, the body defaults to what it knows, even when the mind understands something different. These responses are not decisions. They are conditioned adaptations.
Intentional-Healing exists to work at that level: where responses form, activate, and repeat, not to explain them, but to reorganize them through direct, present-moment engagement.
What Makes This Work Different
Intentional-Healing is embodied emotional and spiritually grounded work.
It is not talk therapy.
It is not coaching.
It is not inspirational or content based.
The focus is on working directly with internal responses as they arise in the body, in real time, so they can be interrupted, reorganized, and integrated rather than analyzed or overridden.
This work does not aim to improve self-concept or reinforce identity. It supports the capacity to stay present with what is actually happening and respond from choice rather than conditioning.
The Role of the Practitioner
Intentional-Healing is founded and facilitated by Iris Rivera.
Her role is not to fix, advise, or define who clients should become.
She supports individuals in learning how to recognize conditioned internal responses and interrupt them as they occur, particularly in relationships, transitions, and moments that carry emotional weight.
Agency remains with the client at all times. The work emphasizes responsibility, discernment, and nervous-system safety rather than dependence or direction.
Why Iris Can Guide This Work
This work did not emerge from theory alone.
It developed through the recognition that insight, spiritual understanding, and years of personal development do not automatically translate into embodied change.
What shifted everything was learning how to work directly with internal responses in the body, in real time, rather than attempting to resolve them through understanding or effort.
Intentional-Healing emerged from that integration: a way of working that respects both awareness and the physiology of adaptation, without bypassing either.
Training & Professional Formation
Shamanic Practitioner Training - Rising Fire
Training in Robbins - Madanes Strategic Intervention
The Neurobiology of Trauma - The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine - NICABM
Scope, Ethics, and Professional Clarity
Intentional-Healing operates within clearly defined boundaries.
This work does not diagnose, treat, or cure mental or physical conditions.
It does not replace psychotherapy, psychiatry, or medical care.
It may complement other forms of support when appropriate.
Clients remain fully responsible for their participation and choices.
The containers are designed to support integration and self-regulation, not dependency or escalation.
Client Reflections
The First Step
For those who feel oriented to this work, the first step is a contained entry designed to clarify what is actually occurring and what form of support, if any, is appropriate.
This initial container establishes pacing, safety, and direction before any deeper work begins.
There is no requirement to commit beyond that first step, only a willingness to be present with what is already happening.