With hindsight, my first major contact with shamanism was a near-death experience when I was around 12 years old. This started a process of discovery in me, leading me to study anthropology at university, where I ended up studying different shamanic cultures. I then spent my 20’s and early 30’s studying many forms of psychotherapy, body-work and meditation practices which I now know to be shamanic in origin, although I only had inklings of this at the time. Shamanism consciously re-entered my life in a major way some years ago (through another near-death experience), and has since become the central and unifying principle of not only my work, but of my whole life. It is the basis of how I work and who of I am, and is what I spend my life teaching and practicing now.

I draw mainly from the person-centered, process-orientated and body-centered approaches. As well as seeing clients for nearly 30 years, I’ve also worked as a counselling and psychotherapy trainer and supervisor.