Hi, I’m Mel.
For over four decades I’ve been supporting people to reconnect with themselves and their innate health in a deeper, steadier more embodied way.
SURREY & ONLINE
About Me
I have been working in the field of complementary health for over 40 years, having been drawn to its principles as a young teenager.
Whether we work together individually or within a small group, my intention is always the same: to offer a spacious, grounded environment in which you can slow down, soften inward, and hear the truth of what is arising in your body and your life.
Big Heart, Soft Landing.
My work meets you where you are — beyond techniques or protocols, through presence, deep listening and a finely attuned relational space shaped by years of experience. Bringing decades of multi-disciplinary somatic and relational practice together I now practice through a process of transformational embodiment, resting on the ground of integrative, biodynamic cranio-sacral therapy and trauma work combined with Humanistic and Integrative Counselling .
After training in massage therapy in 1986, my first work in complementary medicine was with the pioneering aromatherapist Micheline Arcier, with whom I studied in 1989 and continued to train for until 2009. From there I went on to train in a variety of practices including reflexology, body-mind bodywork, elemental body therapy, and counselling with a post-graduate certificate in groupwork,
In 1999 I qualified with Thomas Attlee at the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy in London, going on to assist him on training courses in London, Ireland, Italy and Iceland, and becoming a senior tutor and post-graduate teacher with the College until 2008 when I left to start a family. I am a registered Supervisor with the CSTA (Cranio-Sacral Therapy Association)..
For more information on my cranio-sacral experience please see here.
In 2005 I obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from King's College London — a grounding that sharpens my interest in maintaining a perspective that questions and integrates both mainstream and alternative views of health and healing.
My private practice is both online and from my home in Surrey and I am part of a collaboration, ‘Blue Turtle Post Graduate Studies’, where we offer courses and themed discussion and draw on a broad range of backgrounds and special interests such as the arts, music, embryology & the human journey into form, brain health & trauma, physiotherapy, visionary aspects of cranial work, the archaeology of the soul’s journey and relational aspects of the therapeutic process.
I have a profound passion for understanding and honouring the deeper meanings that lie within unhappiness and illness, and I believe that true health can only be achieved by taking an integrated view of the whole person.