Healing Through Presence
This is a space where presence stays.
Not analysis. Not fixing. Not interpretation. A steady form of attention that does not leave when difficulty arrives.
In practical terms, we work by speaking, listening, and noticing what is happening in your body, emotions, and inner experience as it unfolds in real time.
Nothing is forced. Nothing is performed.
You do not need to know how to describe what is happening in order to begin.
We begin where you are.
People come at moments of transition, grief, intensity, repetition, or uncertainty—when familiar ways of coping no longer feel enough.
Others arrive with a quieter sense that something deeper is asking to be met.
We work with what is present, whether it is clear or unclear, spoken or unspoken.
And we stay with it long enough for it to shift.
On Presence
My capacity to stay present with what is difficult was not learned from books.
It was shaped by direct experience.
In 2011, I was struck by lightning at work in Devizes, Wiltshire—down a telephone line, in an ordinary moment that changed everything.
I did not know what had happened until later. What I knew was that something fundamental had shifted—in my body, my perception, and my relationship to presence itself.
The strike opened something.
A capacity to hold intensity without needing to resolve it. To remain steady with what is unbearable. To meet fear, grief, rage, confusion, and the unnamed without collapsing or turning away.
Formal shamanic training later gave structure and language to what was already present.
But the foundation—this ability to stay—was forged through lightning.
It means I can hold space for whatever you bring.
Not because I have transcended difficulty, but because I have learned to meet it without needing to leave.
"Peru — receiving shamanic rites from another who was struck by lightning"
The Practice
Each session is an act of staying.
We meet what is here—emotionally, physically, energetically, and symbolically—as it moves and reveals itself.
We do not rush toward meaning or resolution. What is present is allowed to unfold at its own pace.
Sometimes this feels like speaking. Sometimes like silence. Often both.
We stay with what is here.
I may draw on shamanic practices as forms of deeper listening:
Illumination — noticing what is held in emotional or energetic patterns Extraction — releasing what is no longer needed or coherent Soul retrieval — reconnecting with parts of self affected by shock, loss, or fragmentation Communication with the deceased — supporting unresolved grief or relationship completion Energetic cleansing — restoring clarity, coherence, and vitality
These are structured processes, applied with sensitivity to what is present in the moment.
They are ways of working with what lives beneath words.
Form
Sessions are offered in person in Somerset or online.
Duration: 60–120 minutes
Single session: £250
Three-session intensive: £650
I work with a small number of people at any one time so that each session has depth, spaciousness, and full attention.
This is not a high-volume practice.
Each session asks for my full presence with what is unfolding, and the structure of my work is built around maintaining that quality of attention.
Contact
If you feel drawn to this work, you are welcome to get in touch.
You might include what is currently moving in your life, and whether you feel drawn to a single session or a longer process.
If it feels appropriate, we arrange a brief conversation to sense whether working together is right.
This work is not for everyone. It is for those for whom this kind of presence feels supportive.
Alongside individual sessions, I also offer ceremonial space clearing, placement of paintings as altar objects, and mentoring for artists and practitioners.