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Soul retrieval · Spirit releasement · Shamanic healing
Come home to the parts of yourself you had to leave behind.
I'm Nettie. I hold quiet, unhurried sessions for people carrying something heavy — a grief that won't lift, a season that took more than it gave, the sense that a piece of you got left somewhere back there and never quite caught up.
Twenty minutes, no cost, no pressure to book anything.
[Add a warm, well-lit photo of Nettie here — looking at the camera, not away from it. Faces build more trust than symbols.]
No belief requiredYou can be completely skeptical and still be welcome here.
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Years holding this work
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People sat with, one at a time
20 min
Free call before you decide anything
Zero
Religious requirements, ever
Why people come
Most people who write to me can't quite name what's wrong.
They're functioning. They go to work. They answer texts. And underneath that, something feels muted — like they're watching their own life through a window. They've tried the obvious things. Some have been in therapy for years and found it genuinely helpful, and still there's a piece that hasn't moved.
That's the room I hold. Not instead of anything else you're doing. Alongside it.
You don't have to arrive with the right words.
Sessions
Four ways in — starting with one that costs nothing
Every session is one-to-one, unhurried, and shaped around what you actually bring. Prices are listed up front because you shouldn't have to ask.
Core work
Soul Retrieval
$[XXX][90] minutes
What this actually isCore work
Spirit Releasement
$[XXX][90] minutes
What this actually isAfterward
Integration
$[XXX][60] minutes
Ask about thisOn money: if cost is the only thing standing between you and this work, say so on the call. [Describe your sliding-scale or payment-plan policy here, or delete this line.]
The honest version
I'm not going to tell you this is clinically proven. Here's what is.
Plenty of people in my field will imply that research backs up exactly what they do. It mostly doesn't — and you deserve better than a vague gesture at "studies." So here are six findings that are real, replicated, and directly relevant to what happens in my room.
The relationship does more work than the technique
Across more than 300 studies, the quality of the bond between a practitioner and the person in front of them is one of the most reliable predictors of whether that person improves — and it holds up regardless of which specific method is being used. Feeling genuinely heard is not the soft part of the work. It may be the active part.
Flückiger, Del Re, Wampold & Horvath (2018) — "The alliance in adult psychotherapy: a meta-analytic synthesis," Psychotherapy, 55(4).Slow breathing is physiology, not metaphor
Breathing at roughly six breaths a minute — far slower than most of us default to — measurably increases heart rate variability and vagal tone, both markers of the body shifting out of threat response. This is one of the most reliably reproduced findings in the whole field. It's also the first thing we do together.
Lehrer & Gevirtz (2014), Frontiers in Psychology, 5:756 · Zaccaro et al. (2018), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:353.Ritual lowers anxiety — even in people who think it's nonsense
In controlled experiments, people who performed a structured ritual before a stressful task reported less anxiety and showed lower physiological arousal than those who didn't. The effect appeared even among participants who were explicitly told, and believed, that the ritual was arbitrary. Structure itself seems to do something.
Brooks et al. (2016) — "Don't stop believing: rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 137 · Norton & Gino (2014), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1).A warm practitioner changes outcomes measurably
Harvard researchers split patients into three groups: no treatment, a ritual alone, and the same ritual delivered by a warm, attentive practitioner. The third group did significantly better than the second. In later work, benefits persisted even when patients were openly told they were receiving a placebo. Context and care aren't the packaging. They're an ingredient.
Kaptchuk et al. (2008), BMJ, 336:999 · Kaptchuk et al. (2010), PLoS ONE, 5(12) · Kaptchuk & Miller (2015), New England Journal of Medicine, 373.Saying it out loud turns the volume down
Putting a feeling into words — researchers call it affect labelling — is associated with reduced activity in the brain's threat-detection circuitry and a measurable drop in distress. It's part of why "just talking about it" works better than it has any right to. A large part of a session is simply you, saying it, to someone who isn't flinching.
Lieberman et al. (2007) — "Putting feelings into words," Psychological Science, 18(5) · Torre & Lieberman (2018), Emotion Review, 10(2).Awe makes the self smaller, in a way that helps
Experiences of awe — the feeling of encountering something vast — are associated with reduced self-focused rumination, higher life satisfaction, more generosity toward others, and in one study, lower levels of an inflammatory marker. That quiet, slightly unmoored feeling people describe after a session has a research literature behind it.
Piff et al. (2015), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108(6) · Stellar et al. (2015), Emotion, 15(2).Now the part most practitioners skip
None of those studies are about shamanism. Not one of them tested soul retrieval or spirit releasement, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What they describe are the conditions my sessions are built out of — slow breath, structured ritual, sustained attention, being fully heard by someone who isn't rushing you, and the occasional encounter with something larger than your own worry.
The rest is my own practice and my own belief, and I'll always be clear with you about which is which. I can't promise you an outcome, and anyone who does should worry you. What I can tell you is that the ingredients are not nothing, and that the room is real.
You are allowed to be completely skeptical about the framework and still walk out feeling better. That happens here more often than you'd think.
Every study above is listed in full, with links, on the research page.
[A second photo — ideally you in your actual space, mid-work rather than posed. It answers "where am I going?" before anyone has to ask.]
Meet your guide
Hi, I'm Nettie.
I'm a shamanic healer. My work is built around soul retrieval and spirit releasement — two practices I'll explain plainly rather than mystify, because I'd rather you understood what you were walking into.
I came to this work [describe how — the moment, the loss, the teacher, the year. Specificity is what makes a story credible. Two or three sentences here will do more for a reader's trust than any credential.]
I've been practising for [X] years, trained with [name your teachers, lineages, or programs], and I've sat with [X] people. Some of them arrived certain. Most arrived unsure. Nobody has ever been asked to believe anything to be welcome here.
I just believe in love.
NettieWhat I am not, and won't pretend to be
I'm not a doctor, a therapist, a psychiatrist, or a licensed mental-health clinician, and I don't diagnose or treat any condition. I won't tell you to stop a medication or skip an appointment — if anyone in this field ever does, leave.
I don't do curse removals, and I won't tell you something dark is attached to you in order to sell you a package to fix it. That's a well-known pattern in this industry and it's predatory. If I don't think I can help you, I'll tell you on the free call and I'll try to point you toward someone who can.
What happens
A session, minute by minute
Uncertainty is the main reason people hover over the booking button and then close the tab. So here is the entire thing, in order, with nothing left vague.
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Before · 20 minutes · free
We talk first
A call, phone or video, your choice. You say as much or as little as you want. I ask a few questions, explain what I'd suggest, and give you a straight answer about whether I think this is a good fit. Nobody books anything on this call.
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First 15 minutes
Arriving, and slowing down
You sit. We talk for a bit — not an interrogation, just landing. Then we breathe together, slowly, for a few minutes. This isn't a warm-up; it's the part with the most research behind it. Your nervous system needs a moment to believe it's safe before anything else is possible.
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Middle 45 minutes
The work itself
This is where the soul retrieval or releasement work happens. Mostly you'll be lying or sitting comfortably with your eyes closed while I work. You don't have to perform, visualise correctly, or feel anything in particular. Some people cry. Some fall asleep. Some feel nothing until three days later. All of it is normal.
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Last 20 minutes
Coming back, and making sense of it
We sit with tea and I tell you what I experienced, in plain language. You tell me what you experienced. Where those two things don't match, we say so — I'm not interested in convincing you that you felt something you didn't.
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Afterward
The week that follows
You'll get a short written note from me within a couple of days — what came up, and a few small things to try. Then I leave you alone. No sequence of upsell emails, no manufactured urgency about booking again. If you want to come back, you know where I am.
Setting expectations
What this is, and what it definitely isn't
Being clear about the second column is how you can trust the first one.
What this is
- A quiet, structured hour and a half of complete attention on you
- A complementary practice that sits alongside medical and mental-health care
- Entirely consent-based — you can stop, ask questions, or leave at any point
- Open to anyone, of any faith or none at all
- Priced transparently, with the cost visible before you ever contact me
- Something you can try once and never repeat, with no follow-up pressure
What this isn't
- Medical treatment, psychotherapy, or a diagnosis of anything
- A reason to stop or change medication — please don't, talk to your prescriber
- A cure, a guarantee, or a promise of any particular outcome
- Religious, or attached to any church or doctrine
- Crisis care — if you're in danger right now, the numbers are below
- A place where you'll be told you're cursed and sold the cure
Try it right now
Three minutes of the thing with the most evidence behind it
This is a four-count box breath — in for four, hold four, out four, hold four. It works out to about 3.75 breaths a minute, which sits in the range associated with increased heart rate variability. It costs nothing and you never have to book anything to use it.
If you feel light-headed, stop and breathe normally. Slow breathing isn't right for everyone — check with your doctor first if you have a respiratory or cardiac condition.
A little something extra
A sound you can feel
Slow, low-tempo music has been associated in controlled studies with reduced cortisol and lower self-reported anxiety before stressful procedures. Mostly, though, it's just nice. Turn it up, or leave it off — the player in the corner is yours to control.
Nothing plays until you press it. It pauses automatically if you leave the page, and your volume is remembered next time.
In their words
What people have said afterward
Shared with permission, first name and initial only. Nothing here is edited beyond trimming for length.
[Real testimonial goes here. Ask for these by email a week after a session — that's when people can articulate what shifted. Specific beats glowing: "I slept through the night for the first time in eight months" builds more trust than "life-changing experience."]
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[Second testimonial. If you can get one from someone who describes themselves as having been skeptical, lead with it — skeptic testimonials are disproportionately persuasive to the people still deciding.]
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[Third testimonial. A measured one is fine — even good. A wall of ecstatic five-star praise reads as less believable than a mix that includes "it wasn't what I expected, but."]
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Every quote on this page comes from a real client who gave written permission. Experiences differ from person to person, and nothing here should be read as a promise of results.
Please read this before you book
This work is supportive, not clinical. There are times when it isn't the right thing, and I'd rather tell you that here than take your money.
- If you're in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, this is not the right first step. Please use one of the numbers below, or go to your nearest emergency department.
- If you're currently experiencing psychosis, mania, or dissociation, please talk to your clinician before booking. Deep inner work can be destabilising, and I want you steady.
- If you're being treated for a mental-health condition, you're very welcome — I'd just ask that you keep your care team in the loop. This sits alongside their work, never instead of it.
- Never stop or change a medication because of anything that happens in a session or anything I say. I'm not qualified to advise on that, and I won't.
If you need help right now: in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or text HOME to 741741. In the UK and Ireland, call 116 123 (Samaritans). Elsewhere, findahelpline.com lists services by country. If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.
Questions
The things people actually want to ask
Including the awkward ones. Especially the awkward ones.
No — and I'd rather you were honest about it than polite. Belief isn't a prerequisite and it isn't a performance requirement. The research on ritual is quite clear that its calming effects show up even in people who expect nothing from it, and plenty of people who come here describe themselves as agnostic about the framework and still glad they came. You don't owe me your worldview. You just have to show up.
Not in the way that phrase is normally used, and I won't claim it is. There are no randomised controlled trials of soul retrieval. What does have a solid evidence base are the components — slow breathing, ritual structure, sustained attention, affect labelling, and the practitioner relationship itself. I've set all of that out honestly, with citations, on the research page, including where the evidence stops.
No. That tactic — manufacturing a frightening diagnosis and then selling the cure — is common in this industry and it is straightforwardly predatory. I don't do curse work, I don't escalate, and I don't create urgency. If you ever feel frightened into buying something by anyone in this field, that's your signal to walk away.
No, and please don't treat it as though it could. I'm not a licensed clinician and I don't diagnose or treat anything. Many of the people I see are also in therapy, and that combination tends to work well. Keep your care team, keep your prescriptions, and think of this as something that sits alongside them.
There is no church here, no doctrine, and nothing you're asked to sign up to. People come to me Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, pagan, atheist and entirely undecided, and none of it changes how a session goes. If it helps, you're welcome to read the whole thing as metaphor — I genuinely don't mind.
That's a normal outcome, not a failure — yours or mine. Some people feel something immediately, some notice a change days later, and some don't notice anything at all. I won't tell you that you secretly felt something. If a session didn't do much for you, I'd genuinely rather hear that, and I won't push you to book another.
[Both — in person in [City, State], and remotely by video for everyone else. Describe your setup here, including what a remote session needs from the client: a quiet room, headphones, somewhere to lie down, roughly two undisturbed hours.]
Every price is listed in the sessions section above — you'll never have to email to find out what something costs. [Add your cancellation policy here: how much notice you need, whether deposits are refundable, and what happens if someone has to reschedule at short notice for a genuine reason.]
It stays between us. I don't share client details, I don't post about sessions, and I never use anything you've told me as an example — even anonymised — without asking you first in writing. [Add a line here about how you store notes and contact details, and link your privacy policy.]
Use the form below, or phone or email me directly — whichever feels easier. Almost everyone starts with the free 20-minute call, and I'd gently suggest you do too. I usually reply within [one working day].
Get in touch
Your next step doesn't have to be a big one.
It can be a question. It can be three sentences you're not sure make sense yet. There's no wrong way to start this, and nothing you say here commits you to anything.
- Based in[City, State] — and available remotely
- Email[your@email.com]
- Phone[your phone number]
- Response timeUsually within [one working day]