Claire Marie

Claire Marie is a clinical psychologist, shaman, researcher, and author. She is trained in the field of ethnopsychiatry and has worked for 20 years in the United Kingdom in areas as diverse as addiction, psychiatry, occupational psychology, chronic pain, and hospital settings. In 2006 an initiation into traditional Aztec medicine transformed her life and her work.
Her first book, Comment Je Suis Devenue Chamane, Initiation d’une Psychologue (Fayard, 2016), republished in 2017 by Livres de Poche, is an autobiographical account of her confrontation with the invisible and how she then went on to find a means of integrating the principles of shamanic medicine with Western talking therapies.
The book sold 9000 copies and received feedback that was both lively and profound. This generous response from her readers was the catalyst that gave Claire Marie the courage to answer the calling from the Spirit of Illness. Her book, The Spirit of Illness is the result of 6 years of research founded on the conviction that the invisible has a vital message for humankind.
Today Claire Marie is working free-lance between France and the United Kingdom. While continuing her work in hospital settings, she has adapted her shamanic practice to serve a new society that seeks to honour and sanctify the rituals of exchange that unite us and make us who we are.
Her book, The Spirit of Illness, forms part of this movement.