Described as groundbreaking, transformative, innovative, and pioneering with great integrative reach, the heart of Self-Meaning Based Therapy (SMBT) is the uncovering of one's core negative Self-Meaning (SM), which lies deeply within the unconscious. SMBT is an approach to psychotherapy based firmly on the understanding that we are all inherently relational, meaning-making beings, and that difficult to traumatic events shape our primary experiences of connection within ourselves, with others, and with the world. SMBT has the capacity to awaken within us our mainspring of creativity, and inherent tendency to actualize, insofar as it effectively removes the encumbrances that shroud this potential, in the form of negative self-meanings, inciting the process by which we become free to develop a greater understanding of ourselves beyond what has happened to us. SMBT powerfully potentiates an uninhibited, truth-based evolutionary discovery process of awareness of our true identity. As such, at its best, it can become a gateway to higher states of awareness.