Do you do soul retrievals?

Soul-retrieval techniques are one of the classic methods a shaman may use. Anyone who has had a trauma, from a shamanic point of view, may have had some loss of their spiritual essence / energy, and the shaman may have to retrieve it so that the person can feel whole again. Another major technique in shamanic healing work is known as extraction. Extraction involves removing a spiritual intrusion. The shaman can also work as a ‘psychopomp’ to help  the deceased in their transition. Those are all ‘techniques’, among others, that the shaman may need to use and know how to practice. However, I personally never presume what a person needs, for instance that a person would have ‘lost’ her soul (or part of it). The way I work, I agree with clients about the intention(s) for the journey and what the person wants to ask; I always add to the intention that the person receive exactly what they need at this point of their life. Once the intention has been formulated aloud and released, I make sure that I get out of the way, in order to allow Spirits to do the work. In the journey space, I follow what Spirits show me to do, not what I may think the person needs, and usually there is a lot, and more often than not it leads me to places and situations that I could never have thought of myself. Each person, each story is unique, and this is what I love about this work: to respond to that uniqueness and serve it at best.