A New Science of the Soul
A precise methodology that resolves emotional wounds, karmic patterns, and life-long blocks at their true source, developed over thirty years and thousands of client sessions.
What It Is
Every emotional wound has a source. Every recurring pattern in relationships, career, health, or behavior was set in motion by a specific event or events, a moment where something happened, was felt, and was never fully resolved. The pattern has been running ever since.
Causation Therapy adds one further premise: the root cause of most persistent emotional patterns does not lie in this lifetime. It lies in the soul's history across lifetimes, in experiences so charged, so unresolved, that they continue to shape behavior, emotion, and perception long after the life in which they occurred has ended.
The method finds that source. Working in full waking consciousness, no hypnosis, no trance, the client is guided to the originating event. Once there, the emotional energy holding the pattern in place is fully re-experienced and discharged. The pattern lifts. Where an issue rests on one event, the shift is generally experienced as immediate. More often it rests on a thread of related events, and each session that clears a layer leaves a lightness the client notices. The results endure.
Why the tense matters. Working awake is the first half of the method. The second half is grammatical, and it is less obvious. A client here does not describe the originating event from the outside in the past tense. They speak from inside it, in the first person and the present tense. Not he was walking toward the house, but I am walking toward the house. Standing in the event while fully awake, rather than recalling it from a distance, is where the discharge happens. It is also where residue hides: words that were thought or spoken during the original event and never said again in the first person can stay active until they are found and moved through.
Belief in past lives is not required. What is required is openness, a willingness to follow the process where it leads. The work is precise, methodical, and highly effective.
Where this method sits. Causation Therapy is the clinical method. It belongs to a wider system Dr. Richards has developed over four decades, Realization Psychology, which is built on the continuity of consciousness across lifetimes. Causation Therapy addresses the causal layer, where wounds are held and cleared. The system extends further, into the ground those wounds obscure: what remains when the pattern is gone, and what becomes available to a person who is ready to look. Most clients never need to go beyond the clearing. For those who do, there is further to go.
Book a Private Session"Every recurring pattern has a first cause. That cause can be found. When it is found and resolved, the pattern ends."
— Dr. Charles Richards
In Practice
Watch Dr. Richards explain and demonstrate Causation Therapy in his own words.
The Foundation
Causation Therapy rests on three propositions; each supported by evidence gathered over thirty years of practice.
Consciousness does not end at death. The soul carries its history across lifetimes; its experiences, its unresolved emotional charges, and the karmic patterns set in motion by actions taken in prior lives. What we call a "personality" is a current expression of a much longer story.
Karma is not punishment. It is a law of cause and effect operating at the level of the soul. Every thought, word, and deed of significance leaves an imprint or charge, positive or negative; that persists until it is met, understood, and resolved. This is what drives recurring patterns.
The charge can be found. When a client, in full waking consciousness, encounters the originating event, re-experiences the emotion, understands the dynamic, and releases the charge, the karmic pattern is resolved. Not managed. Resolved.
"Whether this was creative fantasy or an actual past life did not matter to me as a psychiatrist. What mattered was the result. I came skeptical. I left changed."— Darla, M.D. · Psychiatrist
Why It Works
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While developing this work, Dr. Richards used traditional methods with many clients and would sometimes spend months or years on an issue with mixed results. With the new approach, he more consistently saw complete resolution in just a few sessions.
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It goes beyond surface symptoms to uncover the true origins of emotional wounds, often rooted in past lives, prenatal experiences, or between-life agreements.
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Unlike hypnotic regression, this process happens in full consciousness. You stay fully present, empowered, and in control throughout your journey.
The Shift
When the charge is released, the pattern no longer has a foundation. It simply ends.
Is This For You?
People often come to this work when they sense that the visible story is not the whole story.
This work is well suited for those experiencing:
It has also served those who are:
Karma is like gravity: it doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not.
Openness is the only prerequisite.
Book a SessionQuestions
Sessions are private pay, and Dr. Richards is not contracted with any insurance plan. On request he provides a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Before booking, it is worth calling the number on your insurance card and asking about your out-of-network outpatient mental health benefit. Full detail is on the sessions page.
No. The method does not require a particular belief system. What is needed is openness, a willingness to follow the process where it leads. Many of Dr. Richards's most transformative sessions have been with clinicians, scientists and others who came explicitly skeptical. The result was the same. Whether what surfaces is considered "real" or "symbolic" is less important than what happens when the emotional charge releases.
No. This is one of the most important distinctions of Causation Therapy. The client remains in full waking consciousness throughout the session. There is no trance induction and no suggestions. The client is completely aware, experiencing, feeling, and understanding everything that arises. This full consciousness is what allows the discharge to be complete.
It varies. In some cases, a single Soul Journeys session often produces profound and lasting results on the specific pattern it addresses. Typically, clients return for additional sessions targeting one or more issues tied to a limited string of past lives. There is no prescribed sequence, the work is tailored entirely to what the individual client brings and what their consciousness reveals.
Clients frequently describe the experience as unlike anything else they have done. The process involves periods of deep inward attention, emotional intensity as the source material surfaces, a release that is often physically felt, and then a profound clarity and lightness afterward. Many describe it as the most significant experience of their lives.
Yes. Dr. Richards also conducts sessions with clients worldwide via video. The depth and effectiveness of the work is not diminished by distance. What matters is the quality of the connection between therapist and client, and the willingness of the client to go inward.
Yes. Many clients work with Causation Therapy alongside conventional psychotherapy, which may provide ongoing support or possible behavioral tools as needed. The two are not in conflict.
Still Have Questions?
If you're wondering whether Causation Therapy is right for you, our AI virtual assistant can help you think it through and point you toward the right next step.
The Next Step
A private session of Soul Journeys™ with Dr. Richards is where this work begins. Sessions of about an hour and three quarters of focused, transformative work, targeting the root of what you bring to it.