
About
Francine Bonjour-Carter

My Approach & Values:
I am an artist, writer, somatic awareness educator, and facilitator guiding people through life transitions using creative, reflective, and embodied practices.
I work with individuals navigating periods of personal change — including identity shifts, career transitions, relationship changes, midlife transitions, creative awakening, grief, and shifts in the body.
These threshold seasons ask for embodied awareness, symbolic reflection, groundedness, and space to listen inwardly.
My work integrates:
- Mixed-media art and visual journaling
- Somatic awareness and nervous system-informed practices
- Reflective exercises for personal insights
- Symbolic and imaginal exploration
Together, these support clarity, integration, and meaningful personal growth.
My training and clinical practice as a somatic practitioner, along with my longstanding interest in Jungian psychology, symbolism, creativity, and the process of individuation, and my cultural background, allow me to appreciate the deeper meanings of life and recognize that we are made up of many interconnected layers.
I am especially interested in the places where body, psyche, and meaning intersect — where an image, a sensation, or a subtle shift in the body can be explored to reveal new understanding.
This work is a creative, embodied approach to navigating life with depth and presence.
If you are curious about whether this work is a good fit for you, please reach out to schedule an
exploratory 15-minute call:
info@francinebonjour.com // (267) 225-8681
I work in-person in the Main Line and Greater Philadelphia areas.

What Has Shaped Me:
My approach has been shaped by over two decades of study, professional experience, and depth-oriented personal practice. I am trained in the Feldenkrais Method®, with a focus on traumatic experiences, and my clinical experience informs how I support nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and sustainable personal change.
- Mixed media art practice for meaning-making and personal growth (2015–present)
- Ongoing study in Jungian psychology and depth psychology (including personal analysis)
- Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification, The Embodied Lab (2025)
- Student in The Visionary Artist with Kim Krans (Winter 2024-2025)
- Somatic awareness teacher for women recovering from the trauma of sexual trafficking (Philadelphia, 2023-present)
- Study with The Dark Goddess Project: rites of passage and integration of life transitions with Lara Vesta (Dec.2021-Jan.2023) - Private practice as a Feldenkrais practitioner specialized in chronic pain and neurological issues (2014-2021)
- Professional training in the Feldenkrais Method® (Baltimore, 2012-2016)
- Earth Medicine School with Pixie Lighthorse (2012-2019)
- Practice of the Indonesian martial art White Crane Silat (2003-2013)
- Student in the somatic education system of The Feldenkrais Method® (France, 2003-2006. USA, 2007-present)
- Personal lived experience of ancestral healing, and living with a scoliotic spine
