Gillian Shelley
BEE VENOM THERAPY & APITHERAPY PRACTITIONER
KEEPER OF BEES & THEIR ANCIENT, HEALING MEDICINE
Bee Venom Therapy (BVT) offers powerful, targeted pain relief, inflammation reduction, and immune balancing for people living with chronic pain, Lyme, MS, arthritis, autoimmune, long COVID, and much more.
Apitherapy weaves with all the hive medicines—honey, pollen, propolis, bee bread, royal jelly, bee venom, and hive air—for an Earth-based remedy that actually works.
I had been struggling with pretty severe pain in my low back. From the first sting, I felt relief within just minutes. A day later, I can move better and don’t feel exhausted from being in pain for the first day in a month!
I so highly recommend Gillian and her work with the bees to anyone struggling with chronic pain.
Kelly, Bee Venom Session
Welcome,
I’m Gillian.
Bee Venom Therapy (BVT) got me my life back from chronic Lyme in 7 months and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in 4.
Now I’m here to teach how you can do the same.
The bees and I go way, way back. They've always been medicine for my heart, but only last year did they begin to heal my body.
As a girl, I'd park myself for hours in front of an observation hive at our local science museum. Scanning intently for my bff—the queen. Being immersed in their world felt like coming home. Even then I already knew the bees were so much more than just insects making honey—they were my friends here to make me better.
It wasn’t until my mid-20s that I started to find out how exactly. I became a beekeeper in the midst of battling Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, a brutal gut-brain disorder with no known cause or cure. In the short weeks home between long hospital stints, I would literally hug my hive, letting its vibrations soothe the places no remedy could reach…yet.
In summer 2025, I learned that I also had Lyme disease. A late-night Reddit rabbit hole led me to Bee Venom Therapy. My self-stinging journey began. The CVS healed in 4 months. My Lyme symptoms were gone after 7, but I’m continuing with stinging for some time until it’s gone for good. And for all the amazing health benefits!
Lets sit by my hive while I share with you the ins and outs, ups and downs of how this all began. Then I hope to have the honor of hearing what led you here and how the bees and I can help to make you better.
"What disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need" ~ David Whyte
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"What disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need" ~ David Whyte ✶
Remote Bee Venom
Teaching & Personalized Guidance
Your healing, finally in your own hands. Held with mine.
I teach people all over our beautiful Earth—from my neighbor up the street in Nevada City, California to the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia—to become confident, safe, and effective in self-healing with the bees.
If you're ready to explore working together, or you're looking for a kind of remote bee venom support you don't see here, reach out. I'd love to chat.
1.First Sting Success!
Get to your first sting with confidence.
The most overwhelming, panicky, and uncertain threshold of this entire journey. (It certainly was for me!)
Let me take out the guesswork for you as I break the daunting preparation down into small, manageable steps—and I even accompany you (virtually) for your first sting success!
2.Starting Season (3 months)
Find your footing in the make-or-break months.
Following that first sting comes the critical starting season, where strange new body sensations pop up, doubts creep in, and a lot of people without support give up. But this is when the magic gets built!
I help you interpret what your body's telling you, pivot when something's off, and hold steady through the uncertainty—so the venom's cumulative healing has the time it needs to take hold.
Support on standby, whenever you may need it.
3.In Your Corner (monthly)
You're mostly leading yourself now—but this road still throws lots of curveballs, and most don’t want to fly completely solo.
I'm here the moment you hit a bump: a spooky new symptom, results stalling, a bee source that dried up. You reach out, and I've got you.
FAQs
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It begins with a short intake form for me to learn more about what is leading you here.
After that, we’ll have a free call to explore and define the shape and level of support needed. Sessions are offered on a sliding scale. Pricing is discussed during our initial conversation.
I work through both in-person sessions (in Northern California) as well as through remote guidance and consult on your bee healing journey. Folks are usually surprised with how well remote guidance can serve their needs. Some level of remote support is usually needed as bee venom Apitherapy requires high consistency over long periods of time and in-person sessions is usually not financially sustainable.
I do offer one-off sessions but the benefits of Apitherapy are usually cumulative. So I prefer working in larger 1-6 month commitments of time for a monthly rate that is determined by the time and hive products (honey, propolis, bee pollen etc.) that are included.
I can of course make recommendations given what I’m sensing, but that decision is completely up to you and I respect your knowing with complete faith!
Thank you and I really look forward to meeting you soon. -
Apitherapy is the art, practice, and science of applying honeybee hive products as healing tools: venom, honey, propolis, wax, pollen, royal jelly, hive air, and even the sound of the hive herself.
Apis mellifera and Homo sapiens both emerged in Africa at roughly the same moment in time. The honey bee has known us from the very beginning. We have been working with the gifts of her hive for our entire existence as a species, evolving our health and consciousness alongside her.
This is not new. And it's not woo.
In modern times, Apitherapy is well-studied. What is new is that here in the United States, we have forgotten. We are now remembering. Most of the world never stopped.
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People come to the hive carrying physical dis-ease: chronic pain and fatigue, autoimmune conditions, unresolved trauma, hormonal disruption, nervous system dysregulation, difficulty conceiving, and the particular exhaustion of being fed up with mainstream medicine.
They also come carrying spiritual burdens. For example, these are beliefs and fears of setting boundaries, of not belonging, of getting it wrong, of not being prepared, of pain, of truly claiming their own beauty and power. They know there has to be another, deeper way to restore the psyche beyond the familiar loops in talk therapy. And they’re right.
The bees teach us that we do not need to fear fear itself. The bees also do not diagnose. They do not promise. But they are remarkably intelligent, intuitive, and much smarter & wiser than we are. -
Yes, it is safe when held with care, proper training, and the right protocols (physical and spiritual). I will soon complete the first formal Apitherapist Certification Training in the United States and I maintain all necessary safety standards (including epinephrine on site when venom is guided). Every new client begins with a safety assessment. We listen to what your body is ready to receive and never push beyond it.
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Usually, ready does not mean not full certainty. Some nervousness shows that you understand the honey bees’ transformative power.
Readiness for this work feels like the pull that brought you to this page.
It feels like starting to notice bees more (and perhaps snakes and spiders)—seeing them in the world, hearing them brought up conversations, dream visitations, and even the social media algorithm oracle.
It feels like the cost of not changing is starting to outweigh the fear of change. And you have a gut feeling the bees and I can help facilitate greater freedom.
If you feel any of that, apply. We will figure out the rest together.
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