Shelley Harrison
your guide
to healing and purpose
Not all your pain is yours.
I help you resolve the personal and generational trauma that talk therapy couldn't reach — the stress, overwhelm, and pain your body has been holding onto, sometimes for longer than your own lifetime.
I'm a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), certified Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, and Family Constellations facilitator with over 26 years in this work.
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 an outdoorsy, theater geek girl next door who heard a calling at age 19, and decided to follow it rather than the path of convention.
The result has been a long, deliberate education in how the biggest things you struggle with actually live in the body — and how to help them leave.
I'd like to take you on the same journey.
People always ask me...
"How did you become a healer?"
Where to start...
As a kid, I was a "good girl." I was smart, so school ran me through test after test — math quizzes, gifted assessments, IQ tests. It landed me in the Gifted program. I hated it.
The problem was, those tests never measured what I was actually gifted at: EQ. I was tuned into things in another way — whether you'd call that sensitive, empathic, or intuitive, you probably know the feeling.
At 19, I saw a poster for a Reiki class and signed up.
It cracked something open.
I found my calling.
A fellow Reiki student recommended I get my hands on the book Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan.
Barbara had words for things I was feeling with my hands as I practiced energy healing!
Through a series of adventures, I found my way to 4 years of training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. What followed wasn't a leap into some effortless gift.
It was over 26 years of training, one certification and one hard-won skill at a time.
I'm not a 'gifted' healer. I'm a well trained one.
Over 26 years of training, in service of getting this right
I trained for four years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, learning to read and work with the energy field at five different levels.
I've studied Craniosacral Therapy through the Upledger Institute, learning to ground energy work in the body — through the connective tissue and fascia that hold us together like a web.
A difficult relationship with a partner who I later recognized was carrying PTSD from severe childhood trauma led me into four years of training in Dr. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing® — work that gave me a whole new level of skill at resolving trauma in the body, and where my SEP designation comes from.
Studying Plant Spirit Medicine (not psychedelic work) 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 trained in Family Constellations, working with transgenerational trauma directly — and this is the piece that unlocked the deepest layer of what I do now. This is where I help you see that the block you've been calling a personal failing might actually be your family's unfinished pain, showing up in you.
Not all your pain is yours. Some of it is inherited — and it can come to peace with you and within you.
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 need to be "gifted" to sense your own energy and reconnect with who you are beneath the wounds.
You need a guide who can actually see you — someone trained to read what's happening in your energy field, and to recognize the psychodynamic patterns running through it so nothing important gets missed.
If you're like most people I work with, you've already tried conventional therapy: reliving the same moments over and over, without actually getting resolution.
Maybe you've tried Reiki, seen a naturopath, or built your own yoga or meditation practice trying to get some relief from the stress, overwhelm, anxiety, or painful patterns that circle around inside your mind and body.
The reason you're still spinning your wheels isn't that you haven't worked hard enough. It's that no one has given you a map that goes deep enough — into your body, and into what you inherited, not just what happened to you personally.
If you're ready to do that work, I'd be honored to guide you.
When you work with me, you will learn how to.
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Learn how to process stress, anxiety and trauma without it being scary to revisit old memories.
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 ground of initiation into your expanded Life Purpose.
Here's how I can help you
the Untangling
Generational healing: everything in the Unwinding, plus Family Constellations to clear the layers carried on both your mother's and father's lines.
By session 12, you've cleared your most unhealed personal and inherited history. 12 sessions
1.5-hour personal session every 2 weeks + monthly 2-hour group
$833/month CAD
