Shelley Harrison
your guide
to healing and purpose
I'm an energy healer, certified Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, and guide for 'reluctant priestesses' (I see you in there).
I’m here to guide you deeper than talking to truly transform and heal the physical and emotional hurt that hasn’t been resolved by other approaches.
But first, let's get a few things out of the way...
I’m not a miracle worker or “gifted” healer.
I have no magic wand to wave your problems away.
I'm just a misfit, theater geek girl next door who heard a calling at age 19, and decided to follow it rather than the path of convention. 33 years later (I'm 52), the result has been a magical journey…to my true nature.
I’d like to take you on the same journey.
As a kid, I was kind of a ‘good girl’ I was smart, so at school they gave me and the other 'smart kids' test after test, ranging from math quizzes and evaluations, to 'gifted assessments' and traditional IQ tests.
This landed me in the “Gifted” programs. The only problem was that these tests didn’t identify what I was really gifted at, which was EQ (Emotional Intelligence)! In other words, I was tuned into things in another way. You probably are too whether you call that being ‘sensitive’, ‘empathic’ or ‘intuitive’.
At age 19, I saw a poster on the wall for Reiki classes and signed up. It opened my eyes to the world of energy. Suddenly it all made sense! I got my hands on the book Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan and finally, there were words for what I was sensing, and experiencing.
The rest, as they say, is herstory.
I followed my longing
I spent the next 33 years gathering knowledge and experience in all-things energy healing, trauma resolution, and personal transformation.
I spent 4 years training at the prestigious Barbara Brennan School of Healing in the U.S.A. I attended from age 24-28 and started my healing practice upon graduation. I learned to read and work with your energy field on 5 different levels.
Throughout the last 27 years, I’ve taken Craniosacral therapy training courses from the Upledger Institute and learned how energy healing I’ve learned is grounded in the body through our elegant whole-body network of connective tissue or fascia. I’m trained to work with your body.
I attended 2 years of Plant Spirit Medicine training with traditionally initiated elder Eliot Cowan. I learned Classical Chinese 5-element theory (think acupuncture), and how to do shamanic healing work with local plants. I keep a keen eye on your emotional balance and stuck emotions.
Studying Plant Spirit Medicine with an initiated elder and a group of fun-loving soul friends, led to finding my spiritual community, the Sacred Fire Community. I have spent many profound and joyful nights sitting around the fire listening to bad jokes, eating chocolate, and hearing elders of diverse indigenous traditions share their wisdom. My perspective on your life journey is rooted in indigenous wisdom perspectives.
I entered into a 7 year pilgrimage process in Mexico, under one of my elders and guides from the Sacred Fire Community, Don David Wiley. This put me in a direct and humbling relationship with a sacred site dedicated to the Goddess and the proper ritual protocols to engage with the site. I agree with author and activist Lynn Twist, I think the divine feminine is the answer to all of the problems we face on our planet right now.
A heartbreaking and chaotic relationship with a partner who I later recognized had PTSD from severe childhood trauma, led me to train over 4 years in Dr. Peter Levine’s groundbreaking Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution work. This key unlocked my healing work with you at an even deeper level.
I added to my trauma resolution skills by studying Family Constellations work for transgenerational trauma. I help you heal the blocks in your family pain-body that masquerade as your personal challenges. We can work deeper than just personal stress and trauma.
When you love something enough to do it a lot – you get really good at it. And that’s exactly what I’ve done.
Working with Shelley online was very special! I was looking for help with grounding and purpose. I was experiencing an overwhelming sense of sadness and I had trouble finding my own inner strength and support. Shelley guided me with simple exercises and was able to help me as if I was with her in person. She helped me to concentrate on my senses, my sight, the feeling in my body. I was able to zero in on the energy she guided me to work on.
Afterwards, I can rest and take in the treatment without having to navigate traffic. Treatments from home and online have really changed my understanding of my journey. I am taking a more active role in my own treatment and it feels more meaningful.
S.C
Interior Designer | Ottawa, Ontario
I believe
You don’t have to be “gifted” or anointed in order to sense your own energy fields and connect with the truth of who you really are beneath the wounds. You simply need a guide you can trust. Someone who can really see you.
If you’re like most of the people I’ve worked with, you’ve tried conventional therapy & counseling to heal past trauma, reliving moments over and over again, but not feeling better.
You may have even tried Reiki or other forms of energy healing, seen a Naturopathic Doctor, or started your own yoga or meditation rituals in an attempt to stop the relentless feelings of stress, overwhelm, anxiety and physical or emotional pain.
The reason you’re still spinning your wheels in pain is because no one has given you the right map to move from PAIN to PURPOSE. If you’re ready and willing to do the soul work, it would be my honor to serve as your guide.
When you work with me, you will learn how to.
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Tenderly attend to the stress, feelings of overwhelm and trauma being held within you.
Heal the transgenerational trauma you carry, so it ends with you, and these patterns of disruption stop sabotaging your life, health and success.
Understand who you really are from the expanded perspective of your energy reality and spirit.
Move from pain to purpose by seeing the story of your deepest wounds as the initiatory journey into your expanded Life Purpose.
My Training.
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My work as a Sun in Aquarius is to be different than average and take you into the realms of Energy Healing and energy/consciousness. Breakthroughs like the electric sparks of Uranus are part of what unfolds!
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My work as a Virgo ascendent is to be very practical and grounded about this work. #thegroundedhealer. I don’t view energy healing as ‘far out’. To me it is a very practical map of how we are really built and how we work.
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My moon is in Scorpio. I can guide you deep into your emotional realms and wounds for transformation. I’m not a weekend course taker. When I decide to learn something or obtain a skill…I go deep! Pluto helps us go down into what is held unconsciously in your body, energy field, and family system to encounter it and transform it
Here’s what I’ve been up to for the last 24 years…
Energy Healing
1995-1999
Barbara Brennan School of Healing
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4 year professional healer training at the BBSH ages 24-28.
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1000 hours in class training.
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24 years in private practice.
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I am trained to work in 5 different dimensions of the Human Energy Consciousness system (7 levels of the Aura + Chakras, Hara, Core Star, Void).
February + April 2024
Relational Cord Healing advanced training
Barbara Brennan School of Healing
Working with Soul Cords, Genetic Relational Cords, Parental Relational cords, Traditional Ancestral Root Cords, Past-Life Cords
Craniosacral Therapy
1995-current
Craniosacral Therapist
Upledger Institute
CST is gentle bodywork to help you unwind stress, trauma and injuries in your body and untangle how you hold your ‘issues in your tissues’. It is also a kind place to rest deeply and replenish.
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See my profile on the Upledger Institute ‘Find a Therapist page’.
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Craniosacral Therapy 1 (1993, 32 hours)
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Craniosacral Therapy 2 (1996, 32 hours)
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Somato Emotional Release 1 (2000, 32 hours)
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Somato Emotional Release 2 (2012, 32 hours)
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CST for Pediatrics 1 (2015, 32 hours)
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CST Applications for Conception, Pregnancy and Birth 1 (2005, 32 hours)
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CST for Cranial Nerves 1 (2019, 32 hours)
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Advanced CST 1 (2020, 40 hours)
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Teaching assistant for Upledger Institute for CST 1 & CST 2
Plant Spirit Medicine
2004-2005
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2 years training under traditional acupuncturist, elder and healer Eliot Cowan–Mara’kame in the Huichol/Wixarika tradition of Mexico. (200 hours of in class training).
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Eliot is the author of the book titled Plant Spirit Medicine.
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He was my elder and attending “shaman” for 17 years until his death in 2022.
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This work is not psychedelic plant work. I work with the spirits of local plants to bring physical, emotional and spiritual balance and reconnection.
Somatic Experiencing
2018-2021
Somatic Experiencing International
SE Ottawa
Dr. Peter Levine’s work through his institute Somatic Experiencing International (SEI)
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Beginner 1, 2, 3 (100 hours)
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Intermediate 1, 2, 3 (100 hours)
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Advanced 1, 2 (80 hours)
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30 Hours of case consultations and supervision to qualify for SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner)
Family Constellations facilitator
2020-2021
2020--current
December 2023
June 2024--current
June-Nov 2024
Johanna Lynn (student of Mark Wolynn and Suzi Tucker)
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8 modules of 12 hours each (96 hours).
Sarah Peyton
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8 Circuits of Emotion (16 hours)
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Neuroscience series (Addiction, ADHD, Anxiety, Complex PTSD, Depression)
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In the Shadow of the Mother (2025)
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Sexuality series 8 classes (16 hours)
Suzi Tucker
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Money Matters 2 day workshop (16 hours)
Anni Mukkala-Stinn
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Working with childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and incest.
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2 day group, Winter 2023.
Marina Toledo
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2 day in-person workshop, June 1-2, 2024 (16 hours)
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‘Healing the Father Wound’ facilitator training, January 2025 (18 hours)
Tanja Meyburgh, African Constellations
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Supervision ”Sage Circle” 2024 (12 hours)
Here's how I can help you
One-on-One Healing
Are you ready to BREAKTHOUGH instead of continually BREAKDOWN?
It’s time to clear out what talk therapy couldn’t. During our 1:1 virtual or in-person sessions, you will literally feel personal trauma, stress, and feelings of overwhelm flush out of your body and energy field. Then move closer to understanding your life purpose.
Group Healing
Family Constellations. A monthly group of 10-15 peers.
Tap into the power of community to heal inherited family trauma, difficult emotions, and blocks in your energy fields.
Intergenerational trauma is the hidden source of your biggest personal and relationship blocks. Together, we’ll resolve core issues at their root.
