How Jaimie got here
I was working on cruise ships as a photographer when something in me started quietly refusing.
The hours were relentless, the work felt hollow, and I could feel the distance between the life I was living and the one I actually wanted.
So I left — without a clear plan, just a pull toward something more honest. I ended up volunteering in a mountain village in Thailand, and it was there, sitting in a conscious community at sunset with a tarot deck that had no guidebook, that something opened.
I did readings for the other volunteers that evening and pulled accurate, specific things I had no logical way of knowing. I remember the feeling afterward — less like discovery, more like recognition. Like something I'd been quietly carrying had finally been named. I came back to South Africa and started building the practice.
What I kept noticing, though, was the limit of insight alone. People would leave a reading with clarity and still not change anything. Energy work alone stayed surface-level. Neither felt like enough on its own. So I began weaving in somatic work — guiding clients to locate sensation in the body, stay with it, and let it move — while I worked energetically at the same time.
That combination changed everything. It reaches a layer that talking and receiving can't get to separately.
I also work with depth psychology, and that's shaped how I understand what I'm seeing. The patterns I encounter — shame, people-pleasing, suppressed anger, inherited grief — aren't random. They have architecture. Understanding that architecture helps me guide people through it rather than just witnessing it.
I'm still in my own process. I work on my internal landscape the same way I work with clients — through the body, with honesty, without pretending I've arrived somewhere. That's important to me. The people I work with aren't looking for someone who has all the answers. They're looking for someone who can hold steady while they find their own.