Restorative Workshops & Retreats
Space to return to yourself
There is rarely a right moment. There is only a decision to prioritise your own becoming - and a space designed to support it.
These workshops and retreats are not about fixing what is broken.
They are built on the premise that you are not broken. You are shaped by experiences, systems, and stories that needed you smaller than you are.
What we do here is create the conditions for you to remember the size of yourself.
The Framework
My approach combines forensic psychology, coaching psychology, and nervous system regulation to address both the practical and psychological challenges of career transition. This isn't coaching that ignores your emotional reality - it's coaching that uses it as the foundation for genuine transformation.
Whether you're processing involuntary redundancy, leaving a toxic environment, or closing a chapter that's no longer sustainable, we work through the same evidence-based framework:
The EMERGE Blueprint (TM):
Enter Safely – Establish psychological and emotional safety. We create the conditions for genuine exploration. This means addressing your nervous system's response to the ending, acknowledging the impact it's had, and building a foundation that can hold the complexity of what comes next.
Map Patterns – Understand the patterns that brought you here and the ones keeping you stuck. We explore your attachment patterns, your habitual responses to stress and threat, and the unconscious beliefs driving you.
Embody Self – Reconnect with who you actually are. We work with somatic practices, values exploration, and deep self-inquiry to help you distinguish between inherited expectations and authentic desires.
Realize Vision – Create a compelling vision for your next chapter that's rooted in your authentic self, not external pressure or what you think you 'should' do. This isn't fantasy future-building - it's pragmatic visioning grounded in who you've become through this transition.
Generate Action – Translate vision into strategic, sustainable action. This is where we clarify the steps you want to take to build the life you want to lead.
Establish Permanence – Integrate what you've learned so the transformation lasts beyond our work together. We develop sustainable self-connection practices, build in accountability structures, and ensure you have tools to support your nervous system during challenging times as you navigate your new reality. This is about creating lasting change, not temporary fixes.
Our Next Events
Coaching and Clay workshops: CLICK HERE
A one-day experience combining coaching psychology, clay work, and yoga nidra, co-facilitated with ceramicist Pippa Prosser at Brookfields Eco Farm, Warwickshire.
Clay is an honest medium. It does not perform. What emerges in your hands when you are working with clay - what you make, what you return to, what you resist - tells you something your thinking mind has been too busy to notice.
Current workshops in the series:
Creating Self-Compassion: working with your inner critic through clay, guided reflection, and yoga nidra
Creating Self-Care: exploring the inner goddess and the relationship between nourishment and creative practice
These workshops are deliberately small. No previous experience of clay or yoga is needed. What is needed is a willingness to arrive and see what happens.
On Her Own Terms
October 3rd 2026, 10am - 5pm
A day retreat for women ready to rest, reflect, and get clear on what comes next.
Something has shifted.
You can't always put your finger on it. Life is full - probably too full - and by most measures it's working. But somewhere underneath the doing, a quieter question has started to surface.
Is this still what I want? Am I building a life that actually fits?
Perhaps you're between things - a role that no longer feels right, a relationship that has changed, a version of yourself you've quietly outgrown. Perhaps nothing dramatic has happened at all. Only a persistent, low-level sense that you're overdue a conversation with yourself. One you keep postponing because there isn't time, or space, or the right moment.
On Her Own Terms is a day set aside for exactly that conversation.
This is not a workshop. It is not a wellness day.
It is a structured, psychologically grounded day retreat - designed to give you both the rest and the rigour to do something you rarely make room for: to look honestly at where you are, put down what you're ready to release, and get genuinely clear on what you want from here.
There is no performing, no networking, no pressure to have a breakthrough. There is structure, warmth, and enough quiet to actually think.
You will be held throughout by evidence-based practice - somatic work, guided reflection, and yoga nidra (don't worry, no poses, no flexibility required) - not as decoration, but as the tools that make this kind of thinking possible at depth.
You will leave with something concrete: a clear sense of what matters most, and a single, grounded intention to carry forward.
Who this is for
Women in their middle years who are accomplished, thoughtful, and quietly aware that something needs to shift.
You might be navigating a significant transition - career, relationships, identity, loss. Or you might simply be at a point where the life you've been building deserves a proper look, with honest eyes and enough space to see it clearly.
You are not in crisis. But you are ready.
The Day
On Her Own Terms moves through two distinct halves - morning and afternoon - with a natural pause between them. The morning is oriented toward the past and the present: what has been, what has served you, and what you're ready to put down. The afternoon turns toward the future: what you actually want, on your own terms, from here.
MORNING — She Who Has Been
Arriving & Settling The day begins gently. Tea, space, and time to arrive properly - not just physically, but in yourself. A nervous system that has just driven through a busy week needs a moment before it can do anything useful.
Nervous System Mapping Before any reflective work begins, we take stock of how you are - not in the abstract, but in the body. A simple, evidence-based tool for noticing where you habitually live: what your signals are, what tends to regulate or dysregulate you. This becomes a useful reference point for everything that follows.
Yoga Nidra: Arriving in the Body A guided yoga nidra practice - not as spiritual exercise, but as a physiological tool for settling. Think of it as a way of becoming genuinely present before the real work begins. No experience needed. You lie down, you are guided, and something in you relaxes that has probably been braced for a while.
Reflection: She Who Has Been A facilitated journalling process exploring three questions.
The Shredding Ceremony What you are ready to release, you write down — and then you let it go. A simple, deliberate ritual to mark completion. Not catharsis, not performance. Just a clear, unhurried act of putting something down.
AFTERNOON — She Who Is Becoming
Values Clarification A deceptively simple question opens the afternoon. It surfaces what genuinely matters, rather than what you think should matter. We use your answers as the foundation for everything that follows.
The Life Compass A map of where there is aliveness, longing, or invitation. Where do your values meet your actual life? Where is there a gap you're ready to close? We are not looking for problems to fix. We are looking for direction.
Vision Work Not a to-do list. Not a five-year plan. An honest, sensory exploration of what her life looks like - the woman you are becoming. What does she notice? What is she doing? Who is she with? What has she stopped carrying? The more specific and felt, the more useful.
Sankalpa Development Drawing on everything from the day - the releasing, the values clarification, the vision - you will distil a single clear intention. Present tense, first person, positively framed. Not a goal to achieve but a truth to inhabit. This is the thing you take home.
Closing Yoga Nidra The day closes with a second yoga nidra practice - this time carrying your intention. Where the morning practice was about arriving, this one is about integrating: allowing everything that has surfaced across the day to settle, at depth, into the body. It is unhurried, and it is beautiful.
Closing Circle The container closes, gently and clearly.
LUNCH will be provided and will be at least an hour long.
What you will leave with
You will leave with
A clear understanding of how your nervous system works - and how to work with it
Honest answers to the questions you have been putting off
A values-grounded sense of what your life needs to contain from here
A sankalpa - a single, embodied intention - to anchor the next chapter
The experience of a day that was entirely, unapologetically yours
A recording of the yoga nidra that you can turn to to help maintain your intentions
Practical Details:
Date: October 3rd 2026, 10am - 5pm
Location: The Barn, Brailes, Oxfordshire
Group size: Maximum 10 women
Investment: £195
What to bring: Comfortable clothing, an open mind
What is provided: All materials, yoga nidra props, lunch and refreshments throughout
A note on what these are not
These workshops and retreats are facilitated by a Chartered Psychologist with a clinical background, but they are not therapy and they are not a substitute for therapy. They are restorative experiences, grounded in psychological understanding, designed for women who are well and seeking growth.
If you are currently in acute mental health difficulty, I would gently encourage you to seek clinical support first. I am happy to talk through what would be most appropriate for you.