Julia Mary
Singer-Chesselet
I was raised in South Africa and for many years my home base has been Kommetjie, a coastal village near Cape Town. The close proximity of mountain and ocean have deeply supported parenting three (now grown-up) sons and my own practice.
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As a trauma informed psychotherapist, I’ve held space for women and men who courageously journey into the tapestry of their lives, alchemising pain and learning to trust their own knowing. The beauty and value lying in the meeting, unmasking and releasing holding patterns. ​
In my late twenties I was introduced to the world of Carl Jung, discovering dreams, a plethora of archetypes and the dance between the masculine and feminine within. This grew into a fascination of the interplay between spirituality, embodiment and psychology.
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And through my exploration of wild landscapes, within and without, I have grown to see the psyche as an ecological system. Our essential human nature as inseparable from the natural world.
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I love dancing, wild walking and swimming, gentle yoga and deep listening. I have a thirst for adventure and an endlessly curious mind.
Trainings and inspirations
HPCSA Registered Psychologist (MA degree)
SAAJA (Jung) public program since 1990
CAJS - Centre of Applied Jungian Studies
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Kabat Zinn
Shiatsu certification
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Advait Tantra School
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Sexual Awakening for Women - Shakti Malan
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Integral Somatic Psychology
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Shamanic Family Constellations Certification
Quantum Systemic Constellations Certification
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Animism & Foundational Ancestral Healing - Daniel Foor
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Movement Medicine, Bliss Dance, Dance Awake
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Traditional African Bone Divination Training - Hildegard Keene
Cultivating the Diviner, Apprenticeship - Colin Campbell
Universal Heart
Flat outstretched upon a mound
Of earth I lie; I press my ear
Against its surface and I hear
Far off and deep, the measured sound
Of heart that beats within the ground.
And with it pounds in harmony
The swift, familiar heart in me.
They pulse as one, together swell,
Together fall; I cannot tell
My sound from earth’s, for I am part
Of rhythmic, universal heart.
~ Elizabeth Odell