Spirit Release Therapy (SRT)

Spirit Release Therapy: What Twenty Years Have Taught Me

Hello, I’m Andy Porter. For over twenty years I’ve been working with people who feel that something just isn’t right. They sense an influence around them, or even within them, that doesn’t feel like their own. I’ve worked with people from all walks of life in that time, and I’d like to share what I’ve learned in plain, honest language.

Spirit Release Therapy (SRT) is the work I’m best known for. It’s a calm, compassionate and clinical alternative to religious exorcism and traditional shamanic practice. There’s no drama and no fear in the way I work. My aim is simple: to help you feel like yourself again, and to help any spirit that has attached itself to you move on to where it truly belongs.

What Is Spirit Attachment?

Spirit attachment, sometimes called entity attachment, is when a discarnate spirit becomes connected to a living person. In my experience, most of the spirits I meet aren’t evil at all. They’re usually people who have died and, for one reason or another, haven’t made the journey on to the spirit realms. In SRT we call them earthbound spirits, or EBs. Many of them are lost, confused or frightened, and they’ve drifted towards someone whose energy felt familiar or safe.

How Do Spirits Attach to People?

Over the years I’ve seen the same patterns again and again. Spirits tend to attach when there’s a resonance, a kind of energetic match, between the spirit and the person. The most common openings I come across are:

Grief and emotional trauma: Loss, shock and unresolved pain can leave us open, and a spirit carrying similar pain may be drawn in.
Alcohol, drugs and addiction: These weaken your natural spiritual defences. I’ve seen many clients whose cravings eased once an attachment was released.
Exhaustion and low energy: When you’re run down, your energy field is simply less able to keep interference out.
Spiritual practice without protection: Opening up to spirit communication without grounding and shielding is something I see far too often, especially with people who are new to this.
Places with heavy energy: Hospitals, battlefields, graveyards and places where trauma has happened can all hold earthbound spirits looking for a way to connect.

The Signs I Look For

Many of the people who come to me have spent years being told their experiences are all in their head. These are some of the signs that make me suspect a spirit attachment may be involved:

Sudden mood swings or personality changes: Feeling like a different person at times, or flashes of anger and sadness that seem to come from nowhere.
Intrusive thoughts and hearing voices: Thoughts or voices that don’t feel like your own, or urges to do things that are completely out of character.
Constant anxiety or feeling watched: A persistent sense of being followed or influenced by something outside of you.
Heaviness and low mood: A deep sadness that doesn’t seem connected to anything happening in your life.
Fatigue and brain fog: Feeling drained, struggling to focus and having memory lapses.
Disturbed sleep: Nightmares, waking up exhausted, seeing shadows or sensing a presence in the room.
Sudden cravings: New urges for alcohol, drugs or destructive habits.
Darker thoughts growing louder: Some attachments amplify negative emotions and can make difficult thoughts feel much stronger.

An Honest Word From Me

Not every mental health struggle is caused by a spirit, and I would never suggest otherwise. Spirit release works best alongside good medical care, not instead of it. Please keep working with your GP or mental health team, and never stop any medication without their advice.

If you’re having thoughts of harming yourself, please reach out for help straight away. In the UK you can call Samaritans free on 116 123, day or night, or call 999 in an emergency.

How I Work

My sessions are calm, respectful and carried out remotely, so it doesn’t matter where in the world you are. Working with my spirit guide Chen, I connect with whatever is influencing you and find out who or what it is, and why it’s there. Earthbound spirits are treated just like clients. With patience and compassion, I help them understand what has happened to them and guide them home to the light.

Not every attachment is the spirit of someone who has passed. Over the years I’ve also worked with:

Dark force entities (DFEs): The more destructive and malevolent forms of spirit. Because SRT is a clinical, non religious approach, we don’t call them devils or demons, but they do need to be handled with experience and care.
Connections with the living: Strong emotional ties with a family member, a former partner or even an old enemy can create what we call a sympathetic resonance. Sometimes these ties reach right back into past lives.
Self created thought forms: Powerful thoughts and emotions can sometimes take on a life of their own. These are known as autogenic entities, and they can end up turning against the very person who created them.

Why Doctors Don’t Talk About This

Spirit Release Therapy is still largely unknown in mainstream medicine and psychiatry. Materialist science doesn’t recognise a spirit world, so doctors simply aren’t trained in it. Symptoms like hearing voices are understood as psychosis or dissociative identity disorder (DID), and medication is used to manage them.

I have a great deal of respect for the medical profession, and I believe the two approaches can sit comfortably side by side. When spirit influence is part of the picture, Spirit Release Therapy gives us a way to address the cause as well as the symptoms.

None of this is new, either. Every culture and faith throughout history has had its own understanding of spirit possession and its own ways of releasing spirits. Christianity has its angels and demons, Islam has its Jinn, and Hinduism describes many kinds of spirits. SRT itself has its roots in the work of pioneering doctors and psychiatrists going back to the 19th century.

Research and Teaching

In 2011, Chen and I began a long research programme with Dr Terence Palmer PhD, exploring consciousness, spirit influence, possession and telepathic hypnosis. That work shaped so much of how I practise today, and I’m very grateful to Terence for everything he has given to this field. You can read more about it in Chen, Telepathic Hypnosis and the Origins of Spirit Release Research.

Together with Jonno Webster, I set up The Spirit Release Academy so this work can be taught safely and ethically to the next generation of practitioners.

Looking After Your Own Energy

Whether or not you’re dealing with an attachment, these are the things I encourage everyone to make part of their life:

Grounding and protection meditations: Strengthening your energy field and your sense of being sovereign in your own body.
Checking your sovereignty: Learning to notice when a thought or feeling doesn’t seem like yours.
Clearing your home: Smudging, sound cleansing and setting clear spiritual boundaries in your space.
Healing old wounds: The inner work that closes the doors attachments come through in the first place.

If you’d like to start today, have a look at my 7 psychic protection techniques. I also run regular spiritual protection courses where I teach these skills in much more depth.

You Don’t Have to Work This Out Alone

If anything here sounds familiar, I’d be glad to help. After twenty years there’s very little I haven’t come across, and I’ll always be honest with you about whether I think spirit release is right for you. If you have questions first, drop me a message, or when you’re ready you can book a spiritual health check.

With warmth and light,
Andy