Shamanic
Forest Healing
Shamanic Counseling helps you strengthen your inner resources and develop your innate ability to work directly with helping spirits — seeking guidance, healing and solutions to life’s challenges through your own experience.
Shamanic Forest Bathing, grounded in forest ecology and Shinrin-yoku, invites a deeper relationship with the living world and its restorative qualities. Offered in a secluded old-growth forest nestled in the Hockley Valley, or in a green space close to you, this work creates space to explore personal questions, deepen connection and discover different ways of listening, knowing and being.
The Wild Heart
The natural world has always offered another way of knowing — one found through attention, experience and relationship. Shamanic Forest Healing creates space to slow down, listen more deeply and explore your own connection with nature, spirit and self. Here, the forest is not simply a setting for the work; it is part of the experience.
Ways to Work Together
Harner Shamanic Counseling
A client-led process that helps you develop your own relationship with helping spirits. Using the Harner Shamanic Counceling method I teach and counsel you in proven methods of shamanic journeying so you can seek guidance and help directly through your own experience. You do the journeying; my role is to help you learn and develop the practice.
Forest Bathing
Guided, unhurried immersion in a secluded, private old-growth forest hidden in the Hockley Valley. Through sensory awareness, stillness, gentle walking and practices drawn from the science of forest therapy and Shinrin-yoku, we slow down and deepen our relationship with the living forest — opening ourselves to its restorative qualities, its rhythms, and all that it may have to share with us.
The Practitioner
My relationship with the natural world began in childhood in the Canadian North and has continued through decades of wilderness travel, teaching, spiritual practice and professional work helping people explore their connection with themselves and the world around them. I am trained in Harner Shamanic Counseling and a certified Forest Therapist, with a personal shamanic practice reaching back more than three decades. My approach is also informed by my degree in Environmental Studies, with a focus on Deep Ecology; a lifetime spent in wild places; years as a wilderness educator and expedition guide; and decades of experience as a facilitator and certified coach. Shamanic Forest Healing brings these paths together in one place.
Express Interest
Visions in the Old-Growth
A few glimpses of the old-growth forest where much of this work takes place — a living space for slowing down, listening more deeply, strengthening our connection with the natural world, and exploring some of life’s questions in a different way.
