THE CLINIC
Good Medicine
When I sit with some people, I can come away drained. With others, I leave feeling nourished, more settled, well-fed, more whole, or simply better than I was before. To me, that's good medicine.
I believe everyone carries good medicine: some for themselves, and some to offer others. This is mine.
A few things have always walked with me, and it's the combination of them that becomes the good medicine I can offer others.
We often talk about holding space without saying what it actually is. I think everyone has their own definition. For me, it's this: when I'm with people, and in a place to offer good medicine, they seem able to drop into themselves. They soften. They can unmask. There is this space of safety. And what's true for them rises to meet them at their surface.
One thing about good medicine is that it can come from so many different places. I spent many years feeling insecure about the timbre of my voice, and the way I pronounced words always seemed at odds with everyone else's. Then, training as a psychotherapist and finding hypnotherapy, I found that my voice was naturally suited to nervous system regulation. My voice is the way it is for a reason. With years of training and many hours of sessions behind me, my voice has become good medicine in hypnotherapy and trancework.
And just like any medicine, mine needs a casing, something to hold and wrap it. Through every training I've done, every book I've read and every research paper I've written, what cocoons it all is my animist grounding, which holds both the seen and the unseen world, I sense what's moving beneath the surface, in the space between us, that isn't being said.
Medicine often finds its focus through our own healing. For me, right now, that's learning to live self first, and to let stress loosen its grip. At the moment, I'm directing this good medicine towards women and our relationship with stress.
My voice & what's beneath & around it is my medicine
OPEN NOW
In 2026, I developed an autoimmune disease. There were a number of things that brought it on, but stress played a huge part. This is why I'm focusing my good medicine wholly on stress management for women.
From first-hand experience, my own research, and what I know about stress, I believe hypnotherapy can make a real difference. Stress has so many triggers: family, work, money, our homes and environments, the world around us. But because the mind and body are so connected, much of what we carry is the mental stress of those things: the worrying, the replaying, the bracing for what's next.
And this is where hypnotherapy really comes into its own because it works directly with the mind, with the subconscious, with the tales and the stories, the histories, the narratives, the record players, the washing machine of the mind, all of it.
But it needs a personalised approach: one that fits into your world, rather than the stress of you having to carve out 7pm every Thursday to meet with me on Zoom.
This is your invitation to do things a little differently and break up with stress, or at least to change the relationship.