About Julia Kyambi

Intuitive Guide I Medical doctor I Hakomi-trained somatic therapist

Intuitive Somatic Soul Work for Inner Freedom & Wellbeing

Hi, I’m Julia

My path led me out of clinical medicine and into a long journey of inner transformation over 20 years ago.

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

I don’t work as a doctor or therapist: I’m a companion in depth and a steady field-holder. I help you untangle patterns, clear what is not yours — emotionally, energetically or ancestrally — and reconnect with the deeper intelligence moving through you in a grounded embodied way.

My work is highly customised, deeply trauma-informed and draws on everything I have learned, from my lived experience and extensive background.

I like to call this kind of work sacred, because truly that is what it feels like to me, when I have the honour of witnessing people connecting to their hearts and finding themselves in the quiet places within.

My story

For a long time, I lived with the quiet pain of not fully embracing who I truly was, feeling disconnected from my deepest desires — my heart and soul longing for more.

From early on, I learned how to adapt — to navigate different systems, expectations, and social codes — and to hide parts of myself, even from myself, in order to belong across the different worlds I moved between. 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 decades-long journey home.

It lives at the meeting point of deep listening, intuition, embodied awareness, energy work and nervous-system attunement.

My particular strength

Much of my work happens in the space where we step out of old meanings. We slow down the impulse to analyse or fix and stay with what is actually happening — sensation, contraction, images, energy, memory. We listen for what is forming beneath familiar stories, releasing emotional, energetic and ancestral entanglements along the way.

I help you unlayer and follow the knowing that is emerging in your experience — tracking subtle shifts in your nervous system, energy field and emotional undercurrents as they arise.

The Intuitive Thread

Intuitive and energetic perception are not occasional additions to my work — they are part of how I listen. I feel into the deeper ‘energetic & feeling landscapes’ you are bringing, and often receive downloads that help navigate the process and point towards what might help you release and change, and shift perspectives. I may sense shifts in your field, see energy, feel ancestral layers, relational imprints, or subtle movements beneath what is being spoken.

Nothing is imposed; everything is brought into collaborative dialogue and we only go with what resonates for you — and always integrate it through the body.

My Qualifications and Explorations

My background spans medicine, mindfulness-based body-centred psychotherapy,
trauma- and nervous-system-informed work, parts work,
ancestral healing, trance work, conscious movement,
sound healing, shamanic and alchemical practices, alongside a deep interest in
pre- and perinatal psychology.

Some of these pathways are formal qualifications.
Others were long-term immersions and lived integration.
All are deeply embodied and inform the intuitive depth work I do today.

Below is a more detailed overview of the trainings and pathways
that have shaped my work over the years.

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

“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

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.

You’ve probably done a lot of inner work but somehow you seem to fall back into the old patterns
just as you’re ready to move forward — the over-achieving, procrastination, emotional loops,
exhaustion, tension, self-doubt, critical inner voices, brainfog, rumination and
a quiet feeling of being disconnected from what you really want — even though you thought you knew,
and you’re so ready to root in something new.

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

I’d be honoured meet you there and walk a part of the way with you

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 — long after my body had already known that my natural way of sensing, thinking and perceiving had been shaped by systems that asked me to think and function differently. I 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.

Naming this later in life was deeply liberating. It helped me stop making these ways of being, processing and perceiving wrong — and instead truly embrace my gifts of deep feeling, pattern-seeing, and subtle sensing. This recognition continues to refine how I attune, listen, and hold space.

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 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

Thank you for being here, you’re warmly invited…

You're warmly invited to connect with me, explore my free offerings or my monthly 1:1 &group pathways — spaces for deep listening, soul guidance, and nervous system support, shaped around what wants to evolve for you.