Return
You’re not broken. You’re just burnt out on trying to be someone you’re not.
Return is the podcast for conscious entrepreneurs, sensitive visionaries, and healers who’ve checked all the boxes—and are still wondering, “Why doesn’t this feel right?”
Hosted by Caitlan Siegenthaler, former therapist turned business energy strategist blending Human Design, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and soulful strategy.
Return isn’t about forcing yourself into someone else’s blueprint. It’s about coming home to your own.
This isn’t hustle hype or spiritual bypassing disguised as business advice. It’s honest, nuanced, often irreverent conversations for the biz owner who’s outgrown performative success and wants to build something that actually feels good.
✨ Tune in for solo episodes and guest convos that help you:
- Navigate seasons of change (without losing yourself)
- Reclaim your energy and decision-making power
- Build a business that honors your gifts and nervous system
- Explore who you really are—beneath the shoulds
Whether you’re in the midst of a pivot, healing from burnout, or finally ready to trust your intuition again,Return is your reminder that you’re not lost. You’re just on your way home.
Let’s begin.
Return
IFS, Intuition & Reclaiming the Therapist’s Intuitive Edge with Natalie Deering
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Episode 111: IFS, Intuition & Reclaiming the Therapist’s Intuitive Edge with Natalie Deering
What happens when therapists stop treating intuition like something “woo” and start recognizing it as information?
In this episode, Caitlan sits down with therapist, consultant, and host of the Intuitive Self Podcast, Natalie Dearing, for a conversation about Internal Family Systems (IFS), intuitive gifts, Theta Healing, creativity, and what happens when we stop forcing ourselves to fit inside the “blank slate therapist” mold.
Natalie shares how parts work unexpectedly became a pathway into deep intuitive development, why she started trusting the images and sensations she received in sessions, and how weaving spirituality into therapy transformed both her clinical work and her relationship with herself.
Together, Caitlan and Natalie explore:
- the overlap between intuition and parts work
- how therapists disconnect from their own knowing
- what happens when we stop ignoring intuitive information
- creativity as a portal back to Self energy
- Theta Healing + IFS
- the role of mentors in intuitive development
- why pottery might secretly be therapy
This episode is for the therapists, helpers, highly sensitive humans, and intuitive people who’ve felt something deeper happening in the room and are ready to trust themselves a little more.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How Natalie discovered therapy was her path
- The connection between IFS and intuitive development
- What “self-energy” actually feels like
- How intuition can show up through images, sensations, and inner knowing
- Why many therapists suppress their intuitive gifts
- How Natalie uses intuition ethically in therapy sessions
- What Theta Healing is and how it overlaps with IFS
- The importance of mentorship in intuitive work
- Why creativity and art can reconnect us to ourselves
Chapters:
00:00 – “I Am Light” & self-energy as a song
03:30 – Natalie’s journey into becoming a therapist
08:00 – Human Design, generators & following what lights you up
11:30 – Therapy, intuition & evolving clinical work
15:00 – Discovering intuitive gifts through IFS & Theta Healing
20:00 – Practicing intuitive discernment
23:00 – Why mentorship matters in intuitive work
27:00 – Using intuition ethically in therapy sessions
35:00 – What Theta Healing actually is
43:00 – Creativity, spirituality & weaving modalities together
45:00 – The parts Natalie is holding close right now
46:30 – Pottery, presence & returning to yourself
Links & Resources:
- Connect with Natalie on her website & instagram
- Listen to the Intuitive Self Podcast
- Learn more about Caitlan’s work: Caitlan Siegenthaler Website
Produced by Caitlan Siegenthaler
Cover Art by Kiara Opara
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That is a beautiful energetic exchange for Caitlan creating the show.