About Kelley S. Kelley Harrell, C.Ht. I'm an author, columnist, and shamanic teacher and student living in North Carolina. My first book is Gift of the Dreamtime: Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma . Ongoing writing projects include the syndicated column Intentional Insights: Questions and Answers from Within, News Editor for the "Ifs, Ands or Buts" column for If... a Journal of Spiritual Exploration, and a regular book reviewer for SageWoman. I am an Ascension and Usui Ryoho Reiki and Master and Teacher, and a Reconnective Healing Practitioner™. I'm also a Certified and Registered Hypnotherapist , and I incorporate the use of flower essences into my work. I have worked as a technical writer of software and systems manuals for 16 years. I am a founder and Co-President for The Saferoom Project, a non-profit support network for sexual assault survivors, and their partners, family and friends. My shamanic practice is Soul Intent Arts, and I am vigorously involved with the worlds in and around me.

Education B.A. in English with a concentration in Language Writing and Editing. Minor in Social Work. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. Certified and Registered Hypnotherapist, American Board of Hypnotherapy Certified Reconnective Healing Practitioner™ Fourth Degree Usui Ryoho Reiki Master and Teacher Seventh Degree Ascension Reiki Master and Teacher Professional Affiliations Member, Flower Essence Society, Nevada City, CA Member, Society for Shamanic Practitioners Circle Member, The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Mill Valley, CA. Ovate Year, IDO, the Invisible Druid Order, Anoka, MN American Board of Hypnotherapy Publications Full Publications listing. Shamanic Practice I was visited by souls of the dead as far back as when I slept in a crib. As I grew older, the dead gave me their death experiences, and lingered for me to help them move on. Not understanding this, I pulled the covers over my head, terrified, and waited for the sun to come up. Apart from visits with the dead, I was also fully aware of sending away soul aspects of myself and bringing them back at a very young age. I often saw the souls of the living apart from their bodies, which was most disconcerting. I thought if I could see the soul of a living person, that must mean they’re near death. Sometimes those “living” souls did die around the time that I saw them. Most of the time they didn’t. My belief system just didn't allow me to understand the nature of souls, their ability to travel from the body and return, or the capacity of a departed soul to reach out to one of the living. I didn't know how significant those youthful experiences were, that there were names for them, or that other people had them, as well. When I learned of shamanism at the age of seventeen, I began independently studying various cultures of shamanic technique. At twenty-six I felt a strong need for shamanic work in my own life and healing, and began working with a local shaman. Shortly into my work with her, I realized with the help of my spirit guides that my early experiences with souls indicated a natural insight into shamanic work, and began training as such. I live in North Carolina, and my intuitive path and practice is one of intertribal shamanism, primarily influenced by Irish Celtic shamanism and Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime, as well as facets of Hawaiian Huna, Native North and South American energy work, and Egyptian mysticism. This combination has led me to weave various approaches in etheric and spiritual healing, which I describe as a 'celestial shamanic path'. Along with the beautiful earthly devas and elemental allies, my practice co-creates space for connecting with Multiversal forces, and the Genuine Self. To that end, my studies continue in that I am currently in the Bardic year of the Invisible Druid Order, and am engaged learning various ways to raise and hold awareness on our planet. I am an incest survivor, so much of my shamanic healing and practice stems from working with traumatic past situations, releasing the karmic patterns of trauma, and manifesting Dreaming into Being. I do a great deal of work with survivors of sexual assault, and am continuously working with my guides to find better ways of bringing light to the arena of survivor healing. In my experience as a survivor and co-creator of my own Life, and in working with other survivors for almost fourteen years, I've learned that your Dream can be your Life, moreover, it already is. Let yourself know it. My shamanic work is quite diverse. Private sessions help clients restore their power with soul retrieval, extraction, chakra and etheric body clearing, retrieving spirit guides and power animals. Teaching includes dynamic approaches in ecstatic journeying, such as connection with celestial and ancestral allies, life progression/regression and transpersonal chakra work. I often use Reiki, Reconnective Healing™, and hypnotherapy to enhance my shamanic soul work. Given my early experiences with the dead, I often act as a psychopomp, that is, a deathwalker to help souls move to Spirit. In my shamanic work and personal spiritual path I have most recently been led to work in the spiritual realms of other planets, where it's possible to learn a soul's celestial origins, and how those beginnings apply to the current life and role on Earth. In that work more than any other, I find a natural opportunity to reconnect with the Divine Feminine. By holding that connection a great deal of etheric clearing can be done in one's Natural form. These kinds of Life approaches can help you learn your life purpose and inherent abilities, clear karmic imbalances, meet your guides, your Soul, and High Self, release illness... All of that said, I am a healer only of myself. Of Life, I'm an enthusiastic student. Of the souls around me, I'm an observer, and good listener. Talk to me about what's going on in your life, and I will help you find a way for you to make your life better. I do distance work, including soul readings and energy balancing, though I only do soul retrievals in person. I do Reiki treatments, as well as hypnotherapy, and Reconnective Healing™ sessions. Contact me for rate information. I also host workshops on basic ecstatic journeying and other specific shamanic and energetic healing techniques. If you are interested in shamanism, hosting a workshop or class, or in private shamanic or energy work with me, please contact me.