Training at the Intersection of Energy, Trauma, and the Nervous System

People often ask where this work comes from — whether it’s somatic, ancestral, nervous-system–based, or something else entirely. The honest answer is: it comes from long immersion across disciplines that don’t usually speak to one another, but should.

What follows isn’t a claim of mastery, but a map of influences — trainings that shaped how I listen, how I work with the body, how I understand trauma across time, and how I stay grounded when working in charged historical or energetic contexts.

Energy, Ancestral, and Trauma-Related Training

My early training sat firmly in experiential and lineage-based practices — places where knowledge is felt, not just taught.

I completed an Advanced Practitioner Certificate in Healing and the Shamanic Arts with Shamanka, alongside a Certificate in Shamanic Counselling through Sacred Trust. These programs emphasised relational ethics, grounding, and responsibility — particularly important when working with altered states or ancestral material.

Alongside this, I undertook a three-year training in Divination, Magic, and Healing with Tim Raven, which provided a rigorous framework for symbolic literacy, discernment, and containment. This was not about prediction, but about learning how meaning-making emerges — and when it should not be imposed.

My work with the body deepened through Equine Facilitated Therapy (EFL), Horse Whispering, and Handling with Flying with Horses. Horses are uncompromising nervous-system mirrors. They refined my understanding of regulation, coherence, boundaries, and non-verbal communication in ways no classroom could.

Trauma-specific training followed, including a Navigating Trauma Certificate with Thomas Hübl and an Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Course through The Embody Lab. These programs anchored my work firmly in nervous-system science, collective trauma theory, and the ethics of pacing, titration, and consent.

Together, these trainings taught me one core principle I still hold: Strong experiences don’t need interpretation — they need regulation and completion.

Professional and Academic Foundations

Alongside experiential work, I’ve maintained a strong professional and academic grounding.

My qualifications include a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion, Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. I also hold an Advanced Diploma in Stress Management Training and the Institute of Directors’ Certificate in Company Direction.

This background matters. It means the work is informed not only by sensitivity and intuition, but by organisational psychology, pedagogy, ethics, and governance. Trauma doesn’t happen in a vacuum — it happens in systems — and understanding those systems is essential.

Ongoing Learning and Lineage Exposure

Much of the learning in this field doesn’t come from formal certificates, but from sustained exposure to communities of practice.

This includes training, conferences, retreats, and study with organisations such as Ancestral Medicine, the British Society of Dowsers, Esoteric College, NICABM, Schumacher College, Hawkwood College, The Shift Network, The Naked Voice, Suara Sound Academy, School of Myth and regional groups including Somerset Dowsers, Devon Dowsers, and Duchy Healers.

Learning also occurred through engagement with individual practitioners and educators, including Eliana Harvey, Elizabeth Jenkins, David Lockwood, Marko Pogacnik and Darren Brittain, and through study at the Centre for Excellence.

Each environment refined a different nervous-system capacity: staying present under projection, recognising when not to act, tolerating uncertainty, and withdrawing intervention without disengaging.

Why This Matters

This combination of training means the work is:

• Somatically grounded, not abstract or symbolic by default
• Historically and ancestrally literate, without collapsing into mysticism
• Trauma-informed, with clear respect for limits and consent
• Professionally accountable, not personality-driven

Whether working with people, places, or inherited patterns, the orientation remains the same: to reduce harm, increase regulation, and support the nervous system back into the present.

Nothing needs to be dramatised.
Nothing needs to be extracted.
And nothing needs to be fixed to be understood.