In 1986 I began working as a psychologist and hypnotherapist at one of the first "mind, body, spirit clinics" in N.S.W. (Australia), where spiritual awareness was incorporated as part of psychological healing when this was compatible with the client's belief system. It was at this time that we became the first clinic in Australia to actively participate in the Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN). This is a support network that was instigated in the United States by Christina and Stan Groff to assist "normal" people who were experiencing the psychotic like symptoms that frequently accompanied a spiritual emergence.