Welcome to the website of Oakenleaf
My name is Brian Anderson, a shamanic practitioner based near Perth in my ancestors home of Scotland.
Since 2006 I have been exploring shamanism as a spiritual companion for our world both for myself as well as sharing this work with others for healing, guidance, creativity, personal meaning and exploration. All offerings are available both in person or online.
I trained initially with Nick Levitt who introduced me to Shamanic ways then with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the Sacred Trust professional training in Shamanism as a practitioner.
As a way to deepen and learn more over these years, I also have worked with among others Sandra Ingermann, Johnathon Horowitz, Shenoah Taylor, and a number of Indigenous peoples from the Americas and my ancestors and hearts home Ireland. I am currently under taking a 5-year Apprentiship with Carole Guyett in Ireland.
From the moment I met shamanism I felt a real connection; some ancestral remembering was awoken in me – I really liked shamanism and shamanism seemed to like me.
Shamanism has become my way to navigate life, connecting me with my awareness for natures rhythms both within myself and with the land I live with it is a process that is ever leading me to be with the nature that I am.
I work with and have been initiated with the drum and also rattle, movement and my voice as a way to change consciousness into what is known as a shamanic state of consciousness to bring guidance, healing direction and insight into my life and the clients I accompany.
I have a background in Counselling graduating from the University of West of England in 2006 after a 4-year training and subsequently worked in a variety of settings, including alongside the NHS, in Restorative Justice and education with our young people also with adults in therapeutic communities both residential and in community settings.
I have been initiated within the Tarot and now use this as more of a therapeutic relationship with it rather than a divinatory one and am developing a deepening with this using shamanic methods.
Shamanism has offered me a way to make sense of a world that often does not, leading me ever deeper into a journey of easing into a love of myself through the nature of the life I am here to express and letting this ripple out across the wider community.
Experiences in my life of trauma with a commitment to my own healing journey have lost their power and hold over me and a space has been created to respond from a different more authentic place within.
A more natural way that gently invites me to take my place within the circle of life and we all have a place within this circle. I have dedicated myself to my spiritual journey through shamanism and follow where it is inviting me.
Part of this is to share these ways with those that feel called to work with me. With my background in counselling and the therapeutic holding this brings, I feel I can offer a grounded and authentic space to accompany you in your own journey for a time as needed and you wish.
At times I do work with people as talking therapist or counsellor and in all my work although I choose not to be a member, I do uphold the ethics of my profession through the BACP code of ethics and my training at University of West of England was accredited in this.
You are very welcome to read my sharing on these pages and if you have any questions or wish to book a session or sessions please get in touch.
I offer a free 30min video call for those wishing to meet me first to help you decide if you wish to go ahead and work with me.