Shamanic Healer Sacred Shadow Work and Energy Healing Ottawa

A Grounded, Intuitive, Shamanic Approach to Healing

My name is Jennifer Malisauskas.

I offer shamanic healing and energy work for people who know something in their life is asking for attention—whether they’re feeling overwhelmed, caught in repeating patterns, disconnected from themselves, or simply sensing that there is more beneath what they’re experiencing.

My work is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and the understanding that our struggles often have a larger story.

Healing Isn’t About Fixing You

I don’t believe healing begins with the assumption that something is wrong with you.

The ways we adapt, protect ourselves, hold back, care for others, or try to belong often have a story behind them. They may have helped us navigate relationships, experiences, expectations, or difficult times in our lives.

But sometimes the things that once helped us can also become the things that hold us back.

That’s when curiosity becomes important.

What shaped this?
What is keeping it in place?
What is asking for attention now?

My work creates space to explore those questions—not by forcing change, but by listening to what is present and working with the deeper layers that may be contributing to what you’re experiencing.

Because I don’t believe healing is about going backwards to become who you once were.

Healing can also be about discovering who you are becoming.

Who I Work With

I often work with people who:

  • feel emotionally or energetically overwhelmed
  • are deeply affected by other people, relationships, or environments
  • find themselves returning to the same patterns despite wanting something to change
  • are carrying experiences they haven’t been able to fully let go of
  • feel disconnected from themselves, their intuition, or what they truly want
  • have already done inner work but sense there is another layer asking for attention
  • are navigating change and wondering who they are becoming
  • want greater clarity, self-trust, meaning, and freedom in how they move forward

Often, they aren’t looking for another way to analyze what’s happening.

They’re looking for a different way to explore and work with it.

How I Work

My approach brings together the practical and the intuitive.

We begin with conversation and what you’re experiencing right now. From there, we can explore the larger landscape surrounding an issue—what may be contributing to it, where it may have begun, what remains unresolved, and what is ready to change.

Depending on what emerges, I may draw from shamanic healing and journeying, energy medicine, Reiki, Medicine Wheel and Medicine Sphere work, shadow work, intuitive guidance, and other healing practices.

Some of what we discover may be connected to your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, body, relationships, or life experiences. Other aspects may feel ancestral, energetic, unconscious, symbolic, or spiritual.

I don’t follow a fixed formula.

I listen—to you, to what is present, and to what emerges along the way.

A Respectful, Steady Approach

Some sessions are quiet and restorative. Others may bring insight, emotion, movement, or a deeper exploration of something you’ve been carrying.

Wherever the work takes us, you remain an active participant.

You can ask questions, pause, change direction, or tell me when something doesn’t feel right. I won’t push you toward an experience simply because I think you “should” go there.

We work with what is present, what you are ready for, and what feels meaningful to explore.

Depth doesn’t have to come through force.

A Personal Note

I understand what it’s like to feel stuck in patterns,
to carry things that don’t fully make sense,
and to want change without knowing how to access it.

There was a time when I could see what was happening on the surface —
but the deeper layers felt harder to reach or shift.

That experience led me to explore work that goes beyond talking
and into the body, energy, and inner world.

Over time, I began to understand how much of what we carry
lives beneath awareness —
and how gently bringing that into view
can begin to change things in a real way.

This work grew from that understanding,
and from a deep respect for how protective and complex we are as humans.

You don’t need to arrive here with clarity.

You can arrive exactly as you are.

Training & Continued Growth

I’ve been studying healing, energy work, spirituality, and the relationship between our inner and outer worlds for more than twenty years.

My background includes extensive training in shamanic healing and Medicine Work, Reiki and energy healing, Celtic shamanic practices, trauma-informed approaches, yoga, meditation, and coaching.

I continue to deepen and expand my practice through advanced Sacred Alchemy and Medicine Work training with Pete Miskwa Kimiwan of The 8th Fire School, alongside ongoing studies in Celtic Shamanic practices with Meri Fowler of the Greenwood Celtic Shamanic Wiccan Tradition.

This continued learning is part of my own growth and expansion, both personally and as a practitioner, and continues to deepen the work I’m able to bring to others.