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When understanding yourself isn't enough
We can know a great deal about ourselves.
We can understand our history, recognise our patterns and have very good explanations for why we react the way we do.
And still find ourselves doing the same things.
My work is an invitation to go deeper.
Through conversation, attention, breathwork and awareness of the body and present moment experience, we explore what is actually happening within you — rather than only talking about what you think is happening.
This deeper exploration is what I call InnerWork.
Understand what is happening.
Feel what is happening.
Become more aware of how you meet it.
A different kind of counselling
Our work begins with conversation.
You bring whatever is happening in your life — anxiety, relationships, recurring patterns, emotional overwhelm, difficult experiences, change or simply a sense that something isn't quite working.
We talk.
But we don't necessarily stay in the story.
At times, we may bring attention to what is happening in your body, your breathing, your feelings or your immediate experience.
Breathwork may be used as a tool to deepen awareness.
We might slow down.
Notice.
Stay with a sensation.
Become aware of a familiar reaction as it happens.
Rather than immediately trying to explain or change the experience, we become curious about it.
This is where the InnerWork begins.
InnerWork
I use the term InnerWork to describe this deeper exploration of your inner experience.
It is not another technique or a separate therapy.
It is the process of becoming more directly aware of yourself - your body, feelings, thoughts, attention, reactions and habitual patterns.
Often we try to change ourselves by understanding ourselves better.
InnerWork invites us to experience ourselves more directly.
What happens in your body when you feel threatened?
What happens just before you react?
Can you stay present with an uncomfortable feeling without immediately acting on it?
What do you notice when you stop trying to make an experience different?
These are the kinds of questions we can explore.
The role of Breathwork
The breath is closely connected with our experience of the moment. Bringing conscious attention to breathing can change the way we relate to what is happening.
Sometimes this may involve simple awareness of the breath.
At other times, more specific breathing practices may be appropriate.
The purpose is not to make something happen.
It is to bring greater awareness to what is already happening.
I have more than 14+ years' experience practising and facilitating breathwork and have facilitated more than 3,000+ sessions.
Fourteen years of InnerSense and embodied practice
For more than 14 years I have worked closely with Dr Graham Mead and his work in embodied self-awareness.
During that time I participated in approximately 16 InnerSense programmes and, for approximately one year while Graham was overseas, led the InnerSense programme.
This has been an important influence on my understanding of embodied self-awareness and on the development of my own work.
InnerSense is Graham Mead's programme. I acknowledge that lineage openly.
The work I offer through my own practice has been informed by this experience, alongside my counselling and therapeutic background, more than 14 years of breathwork practice, extensive study of yoga, pranayama and meditation in India, and my earlier professional life as a criminal barrister and mediator.
You may come because...
You may be experiencing:
anxiety or persistent stress
relationship difficulties
recurring emotional or behavioural patterns
emotional overwhelm
difficult life transitions
the effects of difficult or traumatic experiences
disconnection from yourself
or simply a sense that you want to understand yourself more deeply
You don't need to know exactly what you need before we begin.
We can start with a conversation.
What this work is — and isn't
My work combines counselling and therapeutic conversation with experiential practices such as breathwork, mindfulness and embodied awareness.
These elements may be woven together according to what is appropriate for the individual.
I use InnerWork to describe the deeper process of exploring your experience directly.
InnerWork and breathwork are experiential practices. They are not medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment and are not a substitute for appropriate healthcare.
Where specialist medical, psychiatric or mental-health assessment or treatment is indicated, I will recommend appropriately qualified professional care.
Client Testimonials and Feedback
“I highly recommend Wendy’s BreathWork, Counselling and Meditation services for enhancing your life beyond belief. I have been seeing Wendy for some time now, and with hand on heart, I can honestly say, that my journey through life has never been more beautiful and with such serenity.
If you would like to try Breathwork, Counselling and Meditation, contact Wendy and take advantage of the free 10-minute phone call session.
You will feel the release of long held negative beliefs and experiences, and you will end the session with calmness, joy and a gentle confidence and self-belief!”
“Daily I am reminded of how grateful I am for finding Wendy’s website and choosing her above all the other people I was looking at, to try and help me.
To know me you would have no hint of my internal struggles. I appear confident, capable and composed. But somehow, I got to a point where I had a daily feeling of dread. Typical things were terrifying me; I didn’t want to be alone, I didn’t want to travel too far from anywhere, the onset of night-time, I was petrified of hopping on a plane and going on an upcoming holiday … I was at a point where I absolutely needed to do something as things were becoming unbearable.
I searched the internet for professionals who could help me. I investigated many but there was something about Wendy that kept drawing me back to her above all others. Despite my lack of knowledge and apprehension around what “breathwork” meant and involved, I made the leap (not such a leap) and I booked an appointment. And I’m SO glad I did. Wendy has brightened and settled my days. She has given me tools and perspective that have transformed me and my ability to manage and experience things.
Working with Wendy enabled me to go on my overseas holiday, have good times, and give me the excitement of looking forward to more. She is very professional (and extraordinarily interesting). I miss my appointments with Wendy. It’s ironic to think that her business is to successfully do herself out of business – her service assisted me, to not require her service.
I think about what she gave to me often. I appreciate the tools and my new insights she opened to me. It’s funny, I HATED what I was going through, but I’m thankful for it too, because if I hadn’t, then I wouldn’t have had the fortune to work with Wendy and gain what I got from her.”
“My experience with Wendy has been life changing. As an upbeat person, I always thought I could do it all myself. After a tough year and noticing a pattern of overwhelm, I recognised that this wasn’t the way I wanted to be anymore.
From my first engagement with Wendy over email and then in person, I felt safe, supported and empowered. It was my first experience with a counsellor where I was excited to practice what we had discussed and completely opened my eyes to a new way of thinking and living my life, for myself.
I continue to learn from Wendy every time we meet. No matter why you are seeking guidance, I believe Wendy will help support you on your journey.
Thanks for all you do ”