About
Hi, I’m Lucy
Expanding our capacity to be with all experience helps us to find our place in the world and to live with intention. For me, this work begins with the body, as it is through the body that we know and that we live. Our bodies remember the things that our minds keep hidden from us. By getting to know the patterns and shapes our bodies habitually take, we can integrate difficult experiences and live with more wholeness.
This work takes different forms, including psychotherapy, movement practice, and retreats. These diverse forms of practice all centre around experiencing ourselves as embodied and interconnected, and in being fully met in our complexity. Each practice starts with you and continues with how you are then able to step into the world, with awareness, compassion and connection to your life energy.
I have always been drawn to the energy of transformation and transmutation and my professional work reflects this. My background is in social work and social care (child and family, addictions, and mental health), supporting team development in my role as Therapeutic Lead for the Fathom Trust, and in ethnographic research into what supports change. Alongside my work as a psychotherapist, I work with diverse groups through assisting legal psychedelic retreats with Alalaho and facilitating Playfight sessions and movement sessions that expand embodied awareness and our sense of connection in the world. This work complements my training as a contemplative psychotherapist with the Karuna Institute, where I have learned how being met in experience allows us to find ease through acceptance and compassion.
Alongside my professional interests, my own experiences of trauma and a sense of misalignment in my life led me into a deep exploration of how we come to feel constricted in ourselves. To find my way through, I committed to living in a more embodied way, and I am still on that journey. I explore how my body reacts to the world through meditation, yoga, dance, playfight, plant medicine journeys, and psychotherapy. My trainings in yoga, playfight, and mindfulness based psychotherapy are deepening this exploration, and my wish to share these practices with you as a remedy to the disconnection of our time. This work is transforming my capacity to see the constrictions that we allow, and to consistently and curiously engage in the work seeing them rise and fall. I share the practices that have allowed me to come home to myself, to feel more alive, joyful, creative and free, and to guide you in your own work of exploration.
Qualifications
Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy PGDip
The Karuna Institute, in progress
ESRC Social Work and Sociology PhD
Cardiff University, 2017 – 2022
Cardiff Yoga School
Yoga Teacher Training, 2021
Social Science Research Methods MSc
Cardiff University, 2016 – 2017
Social Work MA
Cardiff University, 2012 – 2014
Exploring Psychology - Post Graduate Course
Open University, 2010 – 2011
BA International Relations with European Study
Exeter University, 2006 – 2010
Psychospiritual Training
Alongside my formal qualifications I continue to engage in experiential training. I am interested in ways in which expanded states of consciousness can support our healing, including psychedelic work, body work, depth hypnosis, and shamanic journeying.
I am currently training in Core Process Psychotherapy. I have my own weekly psychotherapy, and I have regular psychotherapeutic supervision to support me to work safely and with integrity.
Recent work has included a Vision Quest (2022), non-dual movement trainings in Embodied Yin (2022), Shake the Dust (2021) and Embodied Yoga Nidra (2023), Tasting the Essence of Vajrayana Tantra (2023 - on-going), and primal connection training in Playfight facilitation (2024).
Professional Memberships
I have professional memberships with the UKCP, BASW, and the Yoga Alliance, and adhere to their codes of ethics and conduct for my work as a psychotherapist, social worker, and yoga teacher respectively.
