My work blends social-work insight with intuitive healing to support women who feel stuck, depleted, or disconnected after difficult experiences.
My Approach
I work from a trauma-aware, somatic, and non-pathologizing framework. That means I don't see you as broken or in need of fixing--I see you as a woman with an innate capacity for wholeness who may need a skilled, attuned guide to help her find her way back. I work intuitively, following what your body and energy field are ready to work with in each session. I bring my full presence, my social work ethics, and my genuine belief in your resilience into every room we share--whether that room is in Victoria or a virtual space. Every session is paced with care. You will never be pushed further than you are ready to go.
Awaken the fire that has always been yours---Rumi
Training & Credentials
-
Bachelor of Social Work, University of Victoria
-
Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner II, currently enrolled in Master Practitioner Certification with the Center for EFT Studies
-
Certified Reiki II Practitioner
-
Certified LifeForce Energy Healer, Master in Training IV, The Deborah King Center
-
Certified Mindfulness Training with Eckhart Tolle
-
Certified Trauma-Aware
About Me
I didn't arrive at energy healing through a straight path. This journey of alternative healing took many paths. I studied numerous healing modalities, and the experience was quietly transformative--and I think that's exactly why this work feels so true and is so important to me.
Before this work found me I spent nearly 40 years in social work, sitting along people in their most vulernable and difficult moments. I saw firsthand how much people carry--in their bodies and in their nervous systems. I learned to hold space with care and without judgement. But I also learned something else: that the most profound shifts don't always happen through words alone. This foundation shaped everything about how I practice today.
My own childhood experiences of abuse and neglect coupled with more significant trauma experiences as an adult led me down some tumultuous paths that eventually steered me to seek traditional talk therapy. The talk therapy helped but it did not reach me at the level I intuitively knew I needed to go to heal these parts of me. I needed to go deeper. My own path to energy healing began during a period when I was carrying more than I had words for. As I stated previously, talk therapy helped but there were layers that words could not reach. EFT/Tapping and energy healing changed all that for me. It's been a true journey of self discovery and even though there have been many lows and significant struggles I wouldn't change any of it because it has brought me to where I am today. In my healing journey I felt things I had held for years begin to soften and move. I felt my body exhale in ways I didn't know it had been bracing. And slowly, session by session, I found my way back to myself, it felt amazing, and it felt good to be home again mind, body, and spirit.
The experience of returning--coming home to myself--is what I named this practice after. Internal Shifts are the ones that matter most: quiet, cellure, real. That is why I founded Internal Shifts--to offer women a space where healing is not about being fixed, but instead it's about exploring and returning to oneself. I believe every women carries within her an innate capacity for wholeness. My role is simply to help her find her way back. My name is Sheila Bell, and I am a trauma-aware EFT Practitioner and Energy Healer based in Victoria, BC. I stay with this journey because it contines to provide me with greater awareness and enlightenment.