About Julia Kyambi

Intuitive Somatic Depth & Soul Work

For your journey of Inner Homecoming

Hi, I’m Julia

I support deep-feeling, soulful people on their journey of inner homecoming.

My path led me out of clinical medicine over 20 years ago. What began as a search for deeper professional meaning became a long journey of inner transformation.

I turned to somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness-based trauma healing, spiritual and shamanic healing, consciousness work, ancestral healing, movement, and energy work — first to heal and transform my own life, and over time developed the extensive background that now informs my work.

I don’t work as a doctor or therapist: I’m your companion in depth and a steady field-holder — here in service of helping you deepen the connection with yourself, your inner wisdom, sacred guidance and the quiet places within, underneath the stories, the conditioned thoughts and beliefs.

My story

I was born into German-Kenyan lineages. I grew up in different systems and countries, and moved between them from an early age. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that I actually lived more in the spaces in between.

From early on, I learned how to adapt — to navigate between different systems, expectations, and social codes — and to hide parts of myself, even from myself, in order to belong across the different worlds. I became skilled at functioning and performing, yet somewhere along the way I lost connection to myself and didn’t know how to find my way home, even though I was trying.

My work today emerged from my own long journey home. I now like to call it sacred growth on a journey of Inner Homecoming because that is what it has felt like to me and those I have walked beside — when we become present to ourselves, root in the wisdom of the body, connect deeply our feeling hearts and embrace our whole selves.

“As someone who has been in the field a long time, I can easily recognize Julia’s work as stellar. She works with clients in a sensitive, attuned, and respectful way, helping them to self reflect and heal from an embodied location. She combines felt-level experiencing with descriptive reflection and relational support in a way that creates an organic feeling of ‘being home’ in the fullness of ones body. I recommend her work to anyone who is on the embodied path.”

Christine Caldwell, PhD, LPC, BC-DMTAuthor, Body-Centered Psychotherapist, and Developer of the Moving Cycle

My particular strengths

I root in presence and hold space for complexity without rushing it — to help you unlayer what is in the way, so you can listen for what is taking shape beneath words, stories, and familiar patterns.

I can feel into the deeper ‘energetic patterns & feeling landscapes’ and often receive intuitive images and 'downloads' that arrive during our sessions — clients consistently describe these as turning points that unlock something they couldn't have accessed on their own.
These aren't planned — they arise from tuning into what's trying to emerge through you.

Over time, this way of working allows patterns to loosen and your own inner guidance to take a more central role in how you live and move through the world, organically.

My Qualifications and Explorations

My formal background spans medicine, mindfulness-based body-centred psychotherapy,
trauma- and nervous-system-informed work.

I’ve also explored parts work, ancestral healing, trance work, conscious movement,
sound healing, shamanic and alchemical practices, and have a deep interest in
pre- and perinatal psychology.

Formal Training
⟡ Conventional Medicine (Heidelberg, Germany)
⟡ Hakomi Therapist — Mindfulness-based body psychotherapy (Ron Kurtz Institute); Assisted in Processing Workshops with various teachers
⟡ Moving Cycle Practitioner — Body psychotherapy & conscious movement (Christine Caldwell); Assisted in the practitioner training programme
⟡ Systems and Family Constellations — Gestalt-based with Dr. Victor Chu (ongoing)
⟡ Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) — Basic year
⟡ Hakomi Somatic Trauma Therapy (Manuela Mischke-Reeds)
⟡ From Trauma to Dharma — Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Part 1
Workshops & Short Courses
⟡ Brainspotting - 3 day online workshop with David Grande
⟡ Safe and Sound Protocol™ Certification & Training — SSP Provider
⟡ Rest and Restore Protocol™ Certification & Training — RRP Provider
⟡ Core Shamanism — European Foundation of Shamanic Studies (ongoing)
⟡ Trance Speaking workshop— With Andrej Djordjevitch
⟡ Spiritual Life Coach — With Christiane Völkner
⟡ Inner Child & Parts Work — workshops with different teachers: Janina Fisher, Jochen Peichl, and within Hakomi Training
⟡ Singing Bowl Massage — Peter & Emily Hess
⟡ Mindful Touch Thai Yoga Massage — Krishnataki, Sunshine House
⟡ Relaxation Trainer — Trance journeying with Singing Bowls (Emily Hess)
⟡ Continuum Movement — Jane Okondo, Divo Müller
⟡ Body-Mind Centering (Cellular)— Jens Johannsen
⟡ Energetic Self-Care — Hartmut Wübbeler (Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy)
⟡ Körperwissen (Body Wisdom) — Hakomi
⟡ Szenisches Hakomi — Blend of Hakomi & PBSP (Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor)
⟡ NARM Introductory Workshop — Laurence Heller
Self-Paced Online Explorations
⟡ The Spirituality of Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz (ongoing)
⟡ Neuroscience & Yoga in the Treatment of Trauma — Mind/Body Interventions for Attachment, Mood & Self-Regulation
⟡ Comprehensive Internal Family Systems Therapy Course — PESI (ongoing)
⟡ Complex Trauma Certification Training Levels 1 & 2 — Janina Fisher, PESI (ongoing)
⟡ Deb Dana’s Polyvagal-Informed Therapy Master Class — with Special Guest Stephen Porges (PESI)
⟡ The Resilient Heart — Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certification (ongoing)
⟡ Energy Healing — Sacred Science
⟡ Shamanic Journeying — Sandra Ingerman
⟡ Various short psychotherapy trainings & masterclasses — NICABM, Confer

The ‘me’ behind the scenes

A few fun facts

♢ My sentences often dance between between English, German and the non-verbal. You’ll also often find me talking to myself — quite loudly, the older I get — in all three.

♢ I love cooking and baking. Baking has been with me since childhood, and it still begins the same way: with a craving for cookie or cake dough. I bake because I want the dough, not the cake.

♢ I love cold swimming — my soul feels at home in mountain lakes and rivers, with creeks and boulders and that alive, icy water. I also love the ocean, but if I had to choose, my true dream home is with a spacious view, near trees, gorges, and cold mountain lakes & streams.

♢ I’m a hermit at heart. I love connection, circle and community from a place of deep presence and heart — but nothing nourishes me more than my alone time. If at all you find me at a big party, it’ll likely be somewhere on the sideslines, for example decorating the cake or doing the food.

♢ I’m notorious for hoarding empty jars, or really anything made of glass with a lid. My kitchen is filled with grains and pulses in bottles, and I love making things that can live in the smaller ones. Every now and again I have to declutter and be discerning — it’s become a ritual.

♢ I need my coffee and my dream time in the mornings: yes, goggle-eyed, holding on to a huge mug and staring outside (must be at least a window with far view, some sky, and ideally some green). If I don’t do this, my day just doesn’t flow quite right. I even do it when I have to get up hideously early.

And more serious:

I found the language of neurodivergence only in my early 50s. I’m a deep-feeler and have to ‘feel-sense’ in order to think and speak, and I naturally sense patterns behind the patterns, feelings behind the feelings. I’m also highly sensitive.

Not fitting in and not finding my authentic voice were complex, multilayered life themes for me, woven through personal and ancestral layers alike.

I sometimes reflect on how differently my life might have unfolded had this neurodivergence been named and honoured earlier — rather than growing up shaped by environments that required me to speed up, adapt, and hide essential parts of myself in order to fit.
I sense how many of us, in different ways, have learned to do the same.

My current season

This is a quieter, more inward season. Menopause, chronic illness, and the shedding of outdated coping strategies have brought me into even deeper simplicity, listening, and truth.

This season has strengthened the core of my work and distilled my role into its essence: a grounded space-holder and attuned guide who supports your inner work with unwavering presence — and holding complexity without rushing it.

Words from people who have worked with me:

“This work has been precious and profound beyond my expectations… I feel connected to my guiding core — strong and grounded to be me, and connected to a deeper realm of inner guidance. I couldn’t have dreamed of this, because I had no idea I could even feel this way.”
— Judy C., 1:1 monthly mentoring, California
“There’s something so comforting in knowing that my body and system will always find a way. Julia always manages to open up the space for me to enter into that wisdom.
Deep shifts have happened — I can’t really put into words how. It’s deeply experiential. I can highly recommend working with her. Her gentle, sensitive approach, her deep wisdom and fine perception are exceptional.”
— Laura, Finland

Trust your way.

If you’re here, you might be navigating inner transitions, feeling held back without knowing why,
longing to be more of the real you.

You might have poured your heart into creating a life that feels aligned
— be it for your work, your projects, or just your way of living, creating and being.

Whatever your story is and whether you identify as a seeker, achiever, gentle one, deep-feeler, soft sensitive soul,
different, quiet or someone who simply knows a deeper truth is calling you, I’m here for you.