My name is Joanna-Sue van Poppel.

Touched by Nature — Therapy & Counselling emerged from a personal shift.

A quiet but undeniable realisation that the life once lived no longer aligned. That something essential was missing — not externally, but within.

What followed was not a fixed plan, but a process that flowed naturally: stepping away from routine, expectations, and constant noise, and moving toward something more balanced, more grounded, more authentic.

That flow also led me to guiding people on their path of awareness, healing and transformation. Seeing the individual in their full — holistic.

Later, it also led me to Tanzania.

Not as an escape, but as a place where space still exists. Where nature is not something curated, but something raw and present. Where silence is not empty, but full.

A country where ancestral wisdom is still passed from one generation to the next. And a country where the use of plant medicines is still part of that wisdom.