The Founder

Dr. Charles Richards

Licensed Psychotherapist · Founder of Realization Psychology and Causation Therapy · Author · Speaker · Trainer

Dr. Charles Richards

Background

A Lifetime in Service of the Soul

Dr. Charles Richards holds a doctorate in Psychology, is a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT #23150), and has spent more than thirty years at the intersection of traditional psychotherapy and consciousness-based healing. His work has taken him through every major therapeutic tradition, Jungian analysis, behavioral therapy, somatic work, before arriving at a discovery that changed everything: the root cause of most persistent psychological patterns lies not in this lifetime, but in the soul's history across many incarnations.

What emerged from that discovery is Realization Psychology: A New Science of the Soul, a system of psychology and psychotherapy built on the continuity of consciousness across lifetimes, and Causation Therapy, its core clinical method. Causation Therapy is a precise, non-hypnotic approach to accessing past lives in full waking consciousness, discharging the emotional charge that holds karmic patterns in place, and producing lasting resolution in a fraction of the time required by conventional approaches. The wider system extends beyond the causal work into the territory of realization itself.

Alongside his clinical practice, Dr. Richards spent eleven years at the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego as a management and leadership trainer, working with senior executives of Fortune 100 companies, a grounding in rigorous, results-oriented teaching that he carries into every training and workshop he leads today.

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In His Words

"Every recurring pattern has a first cause. That cause can be found. And when it is resolved, the pattern ends."
— Dr. Charles Richards

The Origins

The Work and Its Origins

Dr. Richards' clinical journey was shaped early by his mentor, Dr. Morris Netherton, a pioneering figure in past-life therapy. But what Dr. Richards developed differed from everything that came before it. Where other approaches relied on hypnotic regression or symbolic interpretation, Causation Therapy works in full consciousness, the client remains entirely alert, aware, and in control throughout every session.

The results consistently surprised even long-skeptical clients. Phobias dissolved. Relationship patterns that had persisted for decades lifted. Where an issue was discrete and had a single origin, a targeted session sometimes resolved it outright, though most work unfolded over a series. Physical symptoms with no medical explanation resolved after their past-life source was located and discharged. The method's precision, combined with its lasting results, set it apart from everything in the existing landscape of psychotherapy.

His work has been featured on NBC's The Other Side , Oprah, and numerous radio and television programs here and abroad. His book, Karmic Relationships: Healing Invisible Wounds, has introduced this body of work to readers worldwide.

30+ Years of Practice
1000s Soul Journeys™ Sessions
3 Continents Taught
6 Published Works

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Global Reach

Teaching Around the World

From Los Angeles to Australia and Brazil, Dr. Richards has led Causation Therapy training cohorts across three continents, guiding potential practitioners and serious students through the method in person.

What began as a private practice has grown into a worldwide body of work, taught and practiced by a growing international community. His travels through the sacred sites of the world, from the temples of Angkor to the monasteries of the Himalayas, continue to inform the depth of the method.

Sun setting over the ocean Stone faces of Angkor Himalayan monastery doorway

The Next Step

Work With Dr. Richards

If something here rang true, a private session of Soul Journeys™ is where the work itself begins. An hour and three quarters, focused on the root of whatever you bring to it. If you would rather read first, the booklet is a good place to start.