Welcome

I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LIVE IN YOUR HEAD WHILE BEING AFRAID TO COME DOWN INTO YOUR BODY. 

I know what it is like to carry pain you don't fully understand. And I know what it is like to wonder whether you will ever feel free to simply be yourself. 

I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LOSE TOUCH WITH YOURSELF. 

There was a time when I lived almost entirely from the neck up. My mind was busy. Always thinking, analysing, trying to understand. But my body? I didn't really want to go there: 

Somewhere beneath all my thinking, I knew there were feelings that I didn't want to feel and there was a lot of pain I didn't know how to deal with. There were parts of myself I had pushed away because they felt too difficult, too frightening or simply too much. 

From the outside, my life probably looked ordinary. I'm an Irish woman, a mother of four, now a grandmother, and for many years I was simply getting on with life. But underneath, I was carrying something I didn't fully understand, and eventually, I realised that no amount of thinking about my life was going to bring me home to myself... Ihad to learn how to feel. 

THE JOURNEY BEGAN WITH A DOOR I DIDN'T EXPECT TO OPEN 

I had already searched for answers: I read self-help books, I worked with a psychotherapist, I learned to understand my experiences intellectually. But understanding wasn't enough. I was still afraid to move my awareness down into my body. Then a friend invited me to a women's sweat lodge ceremony. Something in me said yes. I had very little idea of what I was stepping into. 

The experience was both physically and emotionally intense. In the darkness and heat, something inside me began to break open. When we were invited to offer a prayer for ourselves, I encountered a part of myself I had been unable to see before. A frightened little girl. She had been waiting. And suddenly, she had a voice. I couldn't ignore her anymore. That moment changed the direction of my life. 

I BEGAN TO GO DEEPER 

I started a journey of meeting the parts of myself I had spent years avoiding: My inner child, and

the different parts of me that had learned to protect me. The emotions I had pushed down. The patterns that seemed to repeat themselves. Eventually, I recognised some of the things I was carrying - and they didn't feel entirely mine. I began exploring ancestral patterns and the stories held within my lineage. I learned that healing wasn't about getting rid of the parts of myself I didn't like. It was about listening to them, understanding them, meeting them with compassion, and discovering what was underneath them. 

FOR YEARS, I THOUGHT I HAD TO FIND THE LIGHT 

For a long time, my journey felt like being in a dark cave. I kept searching for the thing that would finally make me whole. I spent years exploring, learning, having experiences, and going deeper. And then, during a healing workshop, something shifted: I realised that the light I had been searching for was already within me. I didn't need someone else to give me the power to heal. I needed to learn how to access the resources, wisdom, and capacity that were already there. That realisation became one of the foundations of the work I do today. Because I believe that we each carry an inner capacity for healing, growth and transformation. Sometimes we simply need someone to walk beside us while we find our way back to it.

FROM MANY PATHS, ONE WAY OF WORKING 

My own journey eventually led me to explore many different approaches to transformation.  I trained as a QTT Transformational Life Coach, learning approaches for working with emotional patterns and release. I became a Chakradance™ Facilitator, which helped me discover a deeper relationship with my body and movement. I trained as a Sound Therapy Practitioner, exploring vibration, voice, and the relationship between sound and the body. 

My curiosity about the deeper dimensions of healing then led me into Core Shamanism, followed by training as a Shamanic Practitioner, Shamanic Counsellor and Transpersonal Therapist. And in more recent years, I have been called even deeper into the mysteries of the feminine: I apprenticed with Amantha Murphy in The Way of the Seabhean™. 

The Seabhean - the Irish female shaman, healer and seer, the woman who walks between the worlds. This gave me a way to explore these practices through my own Irish identity, landscape and relationship with the feminine. For me, this wasn't about collecting qualifications or modalities. It was about bringing together everything I had learned and experienced and asking: What can truly help a woman return to herself?