About Sarah Anne Shockley
Master NLP Practitioner

Since 2010, Sarah has helped her clients move beyond painful limits and negative patterning, drawing on her skills with NLP and shamanism, augmented by a highly developed intuitive faculty. She is known for her emotional warmth, compassion, and down-to-earth pragmatism.​
Sarah studied NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) with Carl Buchheit and Michelle Masters of NLP Marin and received her Master NLP Practitioner certification in 2010. She received certification as a Family Constellation Facilitator in 2011.

She has an MBA in International Marketing and taught undergraduate marketing, international business strategies, business communications, and management excellence. She is also an award winning documentary filmmaker and published author.
She spent more than a decade training with Crow, Cherokee, Navajo, and Nordic shamans and medicine teachers in trance journeying, soul retrieval, self-mastery, and shamanic approaches to trauma recovery and physical and emotional healing.

Her combined backgrounds in NLP, shamanism, and the business world give Sarah a unique ability to recognize and understand client needs on multiple levels and offer a depth of skill, compassion, and presence that is uniquely powerful and effective.

Sarah's Statement

In 2007, I was severely injured on the job and forced to leave work. Virtually overnight, the life I was used to and depended upon screeched to an abrupt halt.

In substantial pain, with limited physical and financial resources and with a young son to care for, my ability to trust myself and life was deeply challenged. Not only was my body not working, but my whole life - career, social, creative - was suddenly out of reach.

This gave me  the unwelcome but extremely powerful opportunity to face my own limiting patterns in all areas of my inner and outer worlds.
Some call this period the Dark Night of the Soul - when life loses its vitality and it seems like you're groping around in the shadows of your personal underworld, trying to find your out. Many others have been there before me, and some of you may be in the midst of this journey as you read this.

During the Dark Night, you face just about every inner fear, anxiety, unresolved trauma, broken relationship, and past regret you've ever had and never quite put to rest. For some, it's what breaks them, and for others, it becomes a spiritual initiation, a kind of walking through a kind of spiritual fire that burns off all the parts of you that aren't real.
I did my NLP training while traversing the underworld of the self - not something I recommend, as it was incredibly challenging, but it made me able to hold space for clients with almost any kind of distress or personal challenge you can imagine. Through a combination of NLP, shamanism, spirituality, and pure determination, I eventually found my way up and out of the Dark Night. I also subsequently healed what was diagnosed as an untreatable physical condition, and recreated my life.

You can too.

I am here for you if you need a light on the path. For more than a dozen years, I have dedicated myself to helping my clients clear painful patterns, find a route through their own inner shadows, and create a way to wholeness.
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