My story

I’ve always been passionate about natural approaches to health and my love for nature-facilitated healing led me to Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork where I eagerly completed the Holistic massage diploma in 2015. The course had opened me up to a completely new way of viewing the body and I keenly pursued further study to truly grasp the connection between the body and mind.

I trained in Reiki Jin Kei Do (2015, 2017) and learned to facilitate energy healing sessions. I also trained in PSYCH-K® (2017) and Access Consciousness (2021), modalities that helped me understand the workings of the subconscious mind and its role in creation of a person’s unique system of beliefs.

Further on my journey I got intrigued by the work of Gabor Maté (a physician and author of When the Body says No) and Bessel Van der Kolk (a psychiatrist and author of The Body Keeps the Score) both of which discovered a connection between disturbed emotional states and physical disease.

Through their life’s work they were able to correlate serious diseases such as cancer, depression, autoimmune conditions and digestive issues, just to name a few, to a physiological and emotional stress. In particular they pointed to the effects of traumatic experiences on a person’s physiology and mental health.

Wanting to learn more I immersed myself in the study of Emotional Freedom Techniques and over the course of three years (2021 – 2023) I developed my skills and gained the status of an Accredited Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner.

Thanks to my training and an ongoing mentoring, I have developed the ability to listen to and to ‘truly hear’ my clients, meeting them wherever they are in their process. I am able to build a respectful rapport, maintain trusted therapeutic relationships and I am able to help them facilitate the somatic processing of just such traumas so they can regain health and freedom over their emotional expressions.

Holistic Massage has started me on a journey, beginning with the body, going on to explore the mind which in turn led me to connect with the Spirit. From there I was led to bring this back into the physical, into the body. I have made a full circle in my personal and professional evolution and that is where I am now. Massage is still the corner stone of my practice, only now I am able to bring broader understanding and meaning to the holistic aspect of one’s lived experience.