Hi, I’m Owen Smithyman. My mission is to help people achieve their fullest potential by removing barriers to optimal consciousness, using cutting-edge techniques.
I believe that true success and fulfillment comes from a state of optimal awareness and clarity, and I'm committed to providing personalized healing and coaching to help clients attain this state.
About Me
Shortly after I finished university, my mother died from cancer. I had always been an optimist, believing that life would work out for the best, but her death annihilated this belief. Without her, I became increasingly anxious and depressed.
Over the next 15 years, I tried every therapy, self-improvement workshop, healing ceremony, and coaching program that seemed promising, as well as several psychiatric medications. While most of these interventions were beneficial and educational, I still felt fundamentally damaged. My career in technology became increasingly unsatisfying, and I developed chronic health conditions due to stress.
As many people do when they become desperate, I started trying things that I would normally dismiss. I call this "divine desperation", because a chain of serendipitous events led me to Peak States Therapy, which helped me start truly healing. I found it powerful and simple enough that I decided to get trained in it, and now I offer it to you.
I look forward to supporting you on your journey.
Peak States Therapy
Peak States Therapy is a cutting-edge healing modality that has been researched and developed over the last 30 years by a small worldwide team. It uses a powerful, sophisticated model of consciousness that allows practitioners to precisely target the root cause of a wide variety of issues and heal them directly, sometimes in a matter of hours, in person or over zoom. Many issues can be resolved in 3-5 sessions.
Types of issues I work with:
Recovering from difficult life events (death, accidents, abuse, neglect, grief)
Personal challenges (critical inner voices, intense emotions, negative beliefs, difficulty achieving goals)
Business challenges (interpersonal issues, difficulty making business decisions, )
Romantic relationships (triggers, resentments, communication issues, conflicts)
Spiritual/energetic issues (kundalini awakenings, energetic blockages, unusual experiences)
Chronic pain (back, neck, head, etc.)
Types of Healing
Compensatory healing involves developing skills and routines to counteract negative feelings and beliefs and create positive momentum. Many coaching and therapeutic approaches employ this method. For instance, if you struggle with impostor syndrome, you might learn to reframe negative thoughts as "inner criticism," practice daily affirmations, and keep a journal of accomplishments to boost confidence. Coaches may also help you set achievable goals that provide external validation upon completion. Gradually, with consistent support and effort, you can reshape your self-perception and enhance your effectiveness. However, relying on coping skills and external validation means setbacks are possible, particularly if something triggers the negative feelings strongly enough, or if you fall out of your routine. Similar to pumping up a leaky tire, if you stop pumping, the air leaks out.
Direct healing involves finding and eliminating the root cause of negative feelings or beliefs. This is the type of healing that I use. For instance, if you struggle with imposter syndrome, directly healing this issue will eliminate the trauma that is causing you to doubt your intelligence or competence, freeing you from its influence permanently. With the issue resolved, you'll not only realize that there was never any reason to doubt yourself, but you’ll also instinctively know the limits of your capabilities, enabling you to naturally choose situations suited to your strengths. Unlike compensatory healing, direct healing ensures you won't be shaken by triggers, because the feelings that were being triggered are now gone. Furthermore, it doesn't require ongoing willpower or support since there's no internal struggle. This is equivalent to patching a leaky tire: once it’s fixed, you don’t have to think about it anymore.
Trauma
No one wants to hear that they have trauma. The word conjures up images of war, abuse, broken childhoods, and intolerable emotional experiences. But the reality is that everyone has some amount of trauma, and it's nothing to be afraid of when you have the tools to deal with it.
The definition of trauma I use is any negative experience that still affects you in the present -- things that happened in the past, but that still affect you today. Trauma is the source of most of the negative feelings we experience in life, as well as our perceived limitations. In the example from the section above, trauma is what causes the feeling of not being smart or competent. Trauma negatively shapes our view of what's possible, our interpretation of life events, and our experience of ourselves. It's the single biggest factor in how a person's life plays out.
Most coaching avoids the subject of trauma but is essentially helping people identify and compensate for trauma in order to achieve goals. I help my clients address and heal trauma directly, removing the obstacles to achieving goals, as well as making goals feel more achievable. The feeling of relief, well-being, and increased capability that follows the healing of trauma is more than worth the effort.
In some cases, healing trauma results in a peak experience that continues indefinitely. This is known as a peak state of consciousness. It varies by person, but it often involves feelings of love, sacredness, peace, clarity, or connectedness that are beyond what you would consider normal. While this isn't the goal of healing, it's certainly very nice when it happens. Consider it a bonus for all your hard work.
Pay-per-Session
For people who want to explore a general issue, or who prefer the familiarity and flexibility of the traditional pay-per-session model. Payment is due at the end of each session.
Pay-for-Results
For people who have a specific goal and want the security of paying a flat fee for guaranteed results. Sessions are unlimited until the agreed-upon results are achieved and remain stable.
More about Pay-for-Results
The Pay-for-Results model was created to address a conflict of interest that arises when charging an hourly rate: if a client isn’t making progress, it can be difficult for a practitioner to tell them to find someone else who can help them. This is how practitioners can become "paid friends", with their clients rehashing the same issues over and over.
But with Pay-for-Results, everyone wins. Practitioners are incentivized to maximize their performance, delivering the most healing in the least amount of time. Clients benefit by having results delivered quickly, guaranteed -- if the result is not achieved, there is no fee. While this may sound like a radical and even perilous departure from the norm, modern healing has advanced to the point of reliability, and most people are honest when they get what they came for.
Pay-for-Results is most suitable when the client has a specific, measurable goal. For example, many clients want to stop being triggered by a painful memory or to stop falling into a familiar pattern of behavior. A contract is written to include measures that indicate whether the issue is resolved, with provisions for partial resolution if desired. Once the measures are achieved, the issue is considered tentatively resolved. From there, two more sessions are scheduled to ensure that the issue does not reappear. If the client remains stable, the issue is considered fully resolved, and payment is collected.
Optimizing Consciousness
Optimizing consciousness is the step-by-step work of freeing yourself from fear, doubt, and pain, so that your mind, heart, and body can function as they should. Your consciousness is a vast collection of discrete interconnected structures, and each trauma that is healed improves and optimizes something different. In some cases, you may heal things that radically alter your understanding, perceptions, and capabilities.
The more optimized your consciousness is, the more joy, freedom, power, and capability you experience, and the less you are constrained by scarcity, mistrust, and perceived limitations. Many global problems stem from humanity being in an essentially dysfunctional state of consciousness, leading to conflicts over resources and ideologies instead of cooperation for the greater good.
Addressing the dysfunctionality of your own consciousness is the single most powerful way to make a difference in the world. Every thought and action from an optimized state of consciousness creates a transformative ripple effect, positively impacting your life and the lives of those around you, who will in turn affect others.
Helping people heal is my passion. If something has been causing you pain or holding you back, let’s talk.