Susan James

SUSAN JAMES

Susan’s fascination, expertise and passion remains after more than 30 years of working in this field, in helping people to gain new insights and perspectives, which lead them into greater self-understanding, compassion and Love and bring them greater clarity, peace and meaning in their life and relationships.

While her processes are simple and effortless they are grounded in a sound and profound understanding and practice of Psychotherapy, the healing arts, wisdom traditions of land-based cultures and multi-dimensional states of consciousness.

She offers almost half a lifetime of learning, experience, teaching and healing work with others as a Psychotherapist & counsellor, shamanic and intuitive energy practitioner, meditator and medium.

At the core of all these practices and traditions is the essential element of Stillness. It is Susan’s unique embodiment of this in her work with others that enables them to access and experience this within themselves. In this stillness, truth and wisdom are realised.

She works with individuals, partners (in personal and professional relationships), and communities.

Communities are groups of people who are drawn together in relationship with one another and are motivated to relate well together for personal wellbeing, meaning and fulfilment. Whether that is through work, family, play, interests or aspirations.

My Professional Journey

My work with others today is a synthesis of everything that I have practiced, learnt, experienced, taught and witnessed throughout a thirty year career in helping people know and understand themselves, and find more useful and wise ways of Being, so that they are more content, inspired and loving.

My degree in Psychology opened my mind to the endless ways we as human beings are being continuously influenced in what we believe, how we act and the life we begin to unconsciously create as a means to become what we think will bring us confidence, happiness, acceptance and love.

And what happens to us as we slowly begin to realise that we are living a life that has nothing to do with who we really are in our heart and soul and how differently and profoundly this would influence the way we thought, felt, related and lived, if we were.

Through working with people as a counsellor for many years I began to witness the intelligence of the mind, the body, the heart and the soul or spirit of people which came forward when they felt held in a safe place and every part of them was honoured and respected in their sessions. This initiated a twenty five year exploration of ways of working with the whole person, encompassing, honouring and listening to all aspects of the Self.

It led me into body-centred, person-centred and spiritual centred approaches in counselling and across the whole spectrum of healing states.

Including, the study of death and dying and an exploration of different traditions of healing and states consciousness;
Buddhist philosophy and practices of meditation, mindfulness, impermanence, Big MIND and the experience of openness and insight and endless spaciousness that comes from the state of “being with” and embracing whatever is in the present moment.

The study of relationships and the energetics of personalities of the Self and a deep understanding of how this is constantly operating in relationships and influencing how we act and react.

It also led me to the study of “what we don’t know’ from an intellectual perspective. The writings of traditional spiritual healers working in psychology, counselling and healing in the contemporary world and a spiritual healing journey and awakening while in retreat with one of my teachers in Montana USA.
This was followed by an initiation into shamanic practice through vision questing, sacred ceremony and personal retreat over a period of 8 years.

I experienced the consciousness of both form and the formless, the physical and the spiritual,” heaven and earth”, the known and the mystery, and being energetically “held” in this space of wholeness- the consciousness of Oneness.

I developed a keen interest in energetic states and energy healing, and the transformative power of ceremony and ritual when working with individuals and groups.

My global focus is on collaborating with other healers, leaders and elders to share wisdom and understandings and co-create powerful healing ceremonies for communities throughout the world. Being part of the co-creation of a critical mass of conscious, compassionate intent toward a tipping point into the experience of Oneness for humanity.