I strongly believe that every person has an inner wisdom that needs a safe and loving container to explore and find solutions to their personal, interpersonal and transpersonal conflicts. My commitment to you is to lovingly foster the necessary environment to encourage you to self discovery, healing and personal growth. Together we will uncover your unconscious and create a path towards consciousness, wholeness, self-empowerment and spiritual growth.
My passion is finding the love and the wisdom that resides within you so that you can create your life full of meaning, potential and possibilities. It also is to create change through consciousness.
My work evolved from a combination of approaches based on various traditions and supported by her natural healing gifts. I had also been heavily influenced by my life experiences as a mother of five, a farmer, a teacher and an artist. Some of my gifts are: a strong intuition, an ability to communicate with the unconscious, a keen perception of energies in the physical /emotional / spiritual bodies, healing hands, a sharp clarity on relationships dynamics and her ability to be a safe container for people’s inner growth.
I am quite connected to the Earth which helps me to embody an earthy presence. and being deeply grounded enables me to meet, support and lovingly encompass each person’s energies, however needy or challenging they might be. My love for the Earth and the Divine Mystery permeate my gentle yet strong leadership in Sweat-lodge Ceremonies.
I had established my private practice in Toronto in 1995. Had co-founded the Institute for Shamanic Psychotherapy (1996- 2001). And was the founder and director of The Shamanic Psychotherapy School -2005- 2011. Now closed. I am a Register Psychotherapist by CRPO since 2015.
In the past few years, since 2016, I have been working 6 months in Northumberland area and Toronto, ON, and 6 months in Caxambu and Aiuruoca area, MG, Brazil where I had co-founded the Sacred Mountains Sanctuary.
Background training and Experience
Movement as a way of healing and integrating emotional blocks. Experiential training in Biodanza (4 years) – 1984 – Brazil
Group Facilitator in Bio-dance for 4 years, 1993-1996 Canada
Studies in Bioenergetics 2000/2001. Brazil 1984, and Canada()
Color therapy and chakra energy alignment (4 years practitioner) – Brazil 1980-84
Iridology and naturopathy and Bach Flowers Medicine (1 year Course) 2 year practitioner- Brazil 1989-1991
Nutrition 2 years at the Brasilia University – Brazil (1989-91)
Expressive Arts Therapy – Cresça -School of Integrated Arts – Brazil 1989-1990 Course and Practicum.
Expressive Arts Therapist at Muki Baum Association Toronto,1999-2001
Basics of Chinese Medicine, Tai chi and Chi Gong (6 months course) – Toronto 1994
Transpersonal Therapy – (Gestalt, Holotropic Breathwork, Shamanism, and other modalities) at The Transpersonal Therapy Center – Toronto, 1994-95
Shamanic Psychotherapy – Individual Apprenticeship, with Don Evans and Robin Noya, Toronto, 1995-96
Sweat lodge Master – Training and Initiation with Robin Noya – 1997
Sandplay Therapy – Training at CAST Toronto, 2000-2004 Certification pending
Holodynamics – Certified Facilitator. Aurora, ON 2000-2001 Instructed by Chris Vlasaty and Vernon Wolf.
Sound Therapy Course. (2 levels) With Gary Diggings, Toronto, 2000-2001
Reconnective Healing and Personal Reconnection – Certified Practitioner – 2002, L.A. CA instructed by the founder Dr. Eric Pearl.
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy – certified Hypnotherapist by The Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Institute of Toronto, 2003.
Past Life Regression Therapy – certification at the Hypno-Healing Institute – 2003
Spirit Releasement Therapy – Basic Intensive Course certification at the Institute for Human Relations – Dr. William and Rev Judith Baldwin – Orlando FL. – Sep. 2003
Spirit Releasement Therapy – 7 days intensive Intermediate course – Rev. Judith Baldwin – Orlando, FL – Sep. 2005
Spirit Releasement Therapy – 7 days intensive Advanced course – Rev. Judith Baldwin – Orlando, FL – Oct. 2006
Soul Retrieval – Four Winds Society – teaching of Alberto Villoldo – BC Canada , April 2006
Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher – Dec 2006
Apprenticeship with Peruvian Shaman Don Cezar Augustine Rivas – Viejo – 2007 – 2009
Joanna Macy’s intensive 2009 and 2011
Apprenticeship in Africa with Mandaza 2011
Other workshops with Mandaza – 2010, 2011, 2012
Chi Nei Tsang Foundation I with Kadro Aug 2012
Amazon Flower Essence weekend workshop July 2012 in NY with Maria Alice Campos Freire
Amazon Flower Essences Basic 2 and advanced cycles of life with Maria Alice Campos Freire – May 2013 in Ceu do Mapia, Amazon forest in Brazil
Grief Ritual with Sobunfu Some – June 2011
Rituals, studies and initiations with Malidoma Patrice Some:
- Aug 2011 Fire Ritual,
- Nov 2013 Beyi the taste of the name
- Elements, 7 day intensive at the East Coast Village July 2014
- Gate ways 2014
- Eldership initiate 2015, Bokara (elder in training)
- Ancestralization at ECV lead by Robert Walker
- Predator and protection at ECV Sep 2015
- Grief Ritual assistant July 2016, Ontario
- Grief Ritual assistant Sep 2016, Orlando FL
- Beyi Ritual assistant Oct 2016, NC
- Certified Cowry Shell divination practitioner with Elder Malidoma Some 2018
- Elder initiation completion Nov 2018 with Elder Malidoma Some
ISP – Integrated Somatic Psychology practitioner Completed training with Raja Selvam – April 2019
ISP PROVIDER 2021
ISP – Pre and peri Natal trauma Workshop on line with Raja Selvam – 2020
ISP – Trauma , Development & Attachment Workshop with Raja Selvam – 2020
SE – Somatic Experience Beginners 1 Sao Paulo, Brazil with Cornelia Rossi – Feb 2019
SE – Somatic Experience Beginners 2 Salvador, Brasil with Liana Netto – nov 2019
SE – Somatic Experience Beginners 3 Salvador, Brasil with Liana Netto – Jan 2020
SE – Somatic Experience Intermediate 1 Brasilia, Brasil with Marilia de Castro Reis, Feb 2020
SE – Somatic Experience Intermediate 2 – Toronto with Berns Galloway , May 22 -25 2020
SE – Intermediate 3 – online with Liana Netto Oct 2020
SE Advanced 1 – on line with Liana Netto April 2021
SE Advanced 2 – with Liana Netto Oct 2021
Certified SEP 2022
Yoga and meditation practitioner for more then 50 years
Heloisa is member of:
The steering committee of SHCN – The Spirituality in Health Care Network
CAPT – Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapies
CRPO – College of Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario
Heloisa has offered seminars in places such as:
Centennial College- “Shamanism: a practical tool for daily living”, 1998
Community Building International Conference – “Body Consciousness through movement”, Guelph, 2001
Therapeutic Touch Event – Exploring Shamanism , May 2002
SHCN – Healing Souls – Spirit Attachment and Spirit Releasement Therapy – June 2004
Wonder Works – 2003, 2004 and 2005 : lecture and workshops
Eternal Moment book store: Spirit Attachment and Spirit Releasement Therapy – May 2005
At SHCN – Experiential workshop – Using nature beings as your own oracle and guide June 2017
In Sao Paulo Brasil – Lectures about ancestralization and after life processes – Nov 2018; Feb and March 2019