Our Shadow Work Coaches, Therapists and Facilitators

Meet our qualified Healing The Shadow practitioners.

All the practitioners featured on this page are fully qualified and insured to facilitate one to one shadow work sessions. They all have regular supervision and peer supervision, and undertake their own regular personal shadow work sessions. All practitioners featured here also undertake monitored continued professional development to maintain the quality and depth of their practice.

Marianne Hill - Healing The Shadow Trainer

Marianne Hill – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Marianne Hill

Founder and Director of Healing The Shadow

Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Group Facilitator

Area: Frome, Somerset

Website: www.healingtheshadow.co.uk

I started the Healing The Shadow® community in 2018 with my fellow practitioner Rod Boothroyd. We have now established the Two and Three Year Practitioner Trainings for those wishing to learn the art of working with the shadow and healing deep emotional wounds.

In 2024 I wrote Healing The Shadow – Deep Process Psychotherapy: An Invitation into the Transformational World of Shadow Work. This book introduces both clients and therapists to the Healing The Shadow modality that I teach and practice.

I am completely committed to developing and holding a compassionate and transformative space, for my trainees and my clients alike, where people can explore and heal their shadows in a warmly supportive, shame free and emotionally mature environment.

I began my journey as a practitioner when I trained as a couples’ counsellor back in 2003. I learned about the hidden connections that play out in intimate and family relationships, and the wounds that bind people into dances which unfold without their knowledge or awareness. I watched in awe as the journey between couples evolved and they were guided towards healing and a deepening and enrichment of their relationship. 

After several years of work as a couples’ counsellor I began to develop an interest in healing through the body. I undertook a personal journey of exploration around body work and forms of deep relaxation and healing and this resulted in me training as a shiatsu practitioner. The language of the body has since become integral to my work. I find that listening to the body offers a direct access to our unconscious and can provide a pathway to healing.

It was through my work as a shiatsu practitioner that I became aware of the concept of the shadow and the hidden unconscious forces that shape our lives. I saw that the shadow linked directly to the unconscious systemic forces that I studied in couple’s and family work, and the unconscious pain and trauma held within the tissues of the body. I then went on to train in shadow work and this became the basis of my practice. I work with individuals, couples and groups.

Francisco Cabeza West – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Francisco Cabeza West

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Areas: East and West Midlands (all counties) and On-line

Telephone: 07894 401733

Email: francisco@discoveryourshadow.com

Website: www.discoveryourshadow.com

My keen interest is helping people to light up, feel energised and fully alive which tends to involve making peace with their unresolved past. Shadow work has been one of the tools that has accompanied me on my experiences of working with adult survivors of child abuse and as part of end of life care for the terminally ill. What greater way to help someone than to facilitate the change that they want to be in the world at the time that they are ready to do so.
Since graduating with a Masters in Peace and Reconciliation Studies in 2004 I have continued to research and undertake trainings in the different methods available to heal the wounds of personal and collective trauma. Being a Healing the Shadow Practitioner complements all the other modalities available to me in supporting individuals to cultivate renewed perspectives and apply these in the next cycle of their lives.
Since 2016 I have been working with young men involved and at risk of being involved in the criminal justice system by mentoring and supporting them to live a life free of crime to one full of meaning, purpose and connection with the communities they live in. This continues to be a truly rewarding experience to witness these young men grow and transform positively.
Please contact me to discuss how we might work together in supporting you to Discover Your Shadows and reconnect with each of these parts towards experiencing a fuller and wholesome you.

Sue Rayner – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Sue Rayner

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Area: Bristol

Telephone: 07545 285655

Email: sue.rayner27@gmail.com

I am a qualified teacher and taught Reception and Key Stage 1 children for seventeen years. I have been a freelance Education Consultant since 2011 and work with local authorities, primary schools and early years settings in the South West and South Wales. In September 2020 I became a Listening Volunteer for Samaritans and am now part of the Volunteer Support Team and a mentor for new Samaritans.

I have seen for myself how shadow work can heal emotional wounds and have been working with Marianne for the last six years. I have recently completed a Certificate in Counselling Skills at the University of the West of England and am a fully qualified Healing The Shadow practitioner.

Dan Hartley – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Dan Hartley – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Dan Hartley

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Area: East Sussex

Website: www.danhartley.co.uk

Contact: danhartley76@gmail.com

I am passionate about supporting people to live their best lives. I have a background in youth and community work and have been involved in men’s work for over 15 years.

I’m currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer for the UK charity abandofbrothers and am a qualified men’s coach. I am proud, through this work, to mentor and support younger men to make positive and lasting changes in their lives.

I see shadow work as one of the best modalities for helping people let go of limiting beliefs, heal old wounds and transform the conditioning and stories that hold them back from fully claiming the life and relationships they deserve.

It’s both humbling and a privilege to support people in this way. I’m grateful to have been trained on this particular journey with Marianne and Rod, two highly skilled facilitators who are great exemplars of this work.

Richard Martyn – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Richard Martyn

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Areas: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, South Wales, Bristol and West Midlands.

Telephone: 07816310803

Email: richardmartynhts@gmail.com

Website: richardmartynhealingtheshadow.co.uk

Since becoming a certified Shadow Work practitioner in 2021, I have been guiding clients in exploring their shadows, helping them unlock the profound benefits this work brings. I am adept at  fostering a safe, nurturing environment and creating a connection where even the most vulnerable parts of ourselves can emerge and be held. I offer in-person sessions at my home in Gloucestershire, as well as in Frome and the Bristol area. Additionally, much of my work is conducted online, where I’ve found that it’s still possible to create a deep connection and work effectively. Please visit my website above to learn more about me and the services I offer.

Click here to read testimonials from Richard’s clients

Laura Stoddart

Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Trainer

Areas: South Devon

Telephone: 07854 374 130

Email:laurashadowhealing@gmail.com

Website: shadowworkdevon.co.uk

10 years ago, I began my personal journey of emotional healing and it brought me to shadow work. I was deeply struck by its effectiveness and transformational power.  As the years went by, joining the Healing The Shadow training seemed a natural way forward. I am delighted that this deeply impactful and broad reaching two year training has enabled me to bring to others the shame free, effective and professional Healing The Shadow sessions that I have benefited from.
I am now one of the trainers on the two year Healing The Shadow training, which helps me to stay immersed in this work, constantly refreshing my skills and deepening my theoretical understanding.
I welcome those who are searching for deep inner change, healing, a deeper understanding of what is true for them, or simply a stronger sense of emotional well-being.  Healing The Shadow is appropriate for working with childhood trauma, fear, anger, anxiety and many other issues that we carry and are be unable to fully express and process. The sessions are always underpinned by compassion, deep respect and care.
I believe that everyone I work with has the capacity and inner resources to access their own transformation and deep healing.
I live and work in South Devon. I also offer sessions via zoom, and face to face in Frome.

Rod Boothroyd – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Rod Boothroyd

Healing The Shadow Trainer

Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Group Facilitator

Area: Frome and on-line work

Contact:

Phone   07788 502 902

My interest in psychotherapy developed over 20 years ago after leaving a management position in industry and experiencing a profound sense of a lack of direction, purpose, and meaning in my life. I was alienated from and dissatisfied with the corporate way of life. And so, determined never to return to a world driven by the pursuit of profit, where unethical practices were overlooked and personal relationships were regarded as unimportant, I soon found myself in deep psychotherapy. The revelations around the true nature of humanity, and the personal change and growth that I gained from this personal work, was so profound that I determined to forge a new career in this area.

I entered onto the training in Transactional Analysis at the Manchester Institute For Psychotherapy in 1999. This led me into a whole series of further explorations and trainings, including vision quests, solo trekking in the wilderness, trainings in Integrative Psychotherapy, exploration of group work with the Mankind Project and training in shadow work, until I eventually found myself running highly successful group workshops for men  with my colleagues Ed Rooke and Dermot Fitzpatrick. The fascination of how people can heal their emotional wounds by exploring and integrating their shadow has never left me, and continues to this day in my work with Marianne and in my private practice with one-to-one clients.
Now, our training course also offers the privilege of bringing others into this much-needed profession. I am proud of our capacity to convey the subtleties and nuances of both the counselling process and the shadow work techniques.
Conroy Harris – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Conroy Harris – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Conroy Harris

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Area: Oxford

email: conroy.harris@hotmail.com

Telephone: 07867 785809

Conroy Harris has a background in mental health, working in the voluntary sector for over 25 years. During that time, he trained as a group facilitator running Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) groups, he also became a renowned trainer of various courses within the voluntary sector covering topics such as equality, inclusion and diversity, challenging behaviour, and CBT and managing depression. Conroy then went on to train as a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher, trainer and supervisor with Oxford Mindfulness Centre which is part of Oxford University.

Conroy is the former Chief Executive Officer of abandofbrothers, a role he held for four years, leaving at the end of 2024. This position enabled Conroy to bring influence and direction to an organisation that works within the criminal justice system, providing a Rites of Passage based mentoring programme to young men aged 18-25.

Conroy is now working with Olivier Mythodrama as a Coach, is trained in shadow work psychotherapy with HealingtheShadow, and is currently developing a new and innovative approach to Equality, Inclusion and Diversity training, which has been a lifelong passion.

Alasdair Kirk – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Alasdair Kirk

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Areas: Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset,

South Wales, West Midlands & Online sessions via Zoom

Telephone: 07792 405 660

Email: ali@inner-truth.co.uk

Website: www.inner-truth.co.uk

I am an experienced, passionate and dedicated therapist with over four years in full time private practice and a lifelong interest in depth and transpersonal psychology.
I specialise in long-form, 5-hour Deep Process Psychotherapy (DPP) sessions using a therapeutic framework that integrates experiential psychotherapy, Jungian symbolism, embodied direct-access Internal Family Systems (IFS), Shadow Work, somatic process work, and embodied relational practices.
Together, we can explore your lived experience, recurring patterns, emotional wounds, relational challenges, and trauma. These extended sessions allow the time and space to gently identify, explore and safely transform the often unconscious aspects that drive our painful patterns, keeping them in place.
Through this process, clients naturally begin to reconnect with their innate strengths and capacities, moving towards greater emotional resilience, authenticity, confidence, and a more joyful way of being.

I step into this alongside you, holding tremendous respect for the courage it takes to turn inward, to face what has felt overwhelming or unreachable, and to choose growth over repetition.

This work brings profound meaning and purpose to my life. I am devoted to creating a grounded, shame-free space where men and women can feel safe enough to explore, heal, and reconnect authentically with who they really are.
My commitment to this path is deeply personal— I believe I can only support others to face their deepest, darkest aspects inasmuch as I engage myself with the bravery and courage required in doing so in my own life. I know that I can only support others’ deep inner work to the extent that I am intimately involved in my own.
I value all modalities that offer deep and direct healing and I am a professional member of The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (IPT) and a registered psychedelic integration practitioner through IPT. I have an academic background in Psychology and Neuroscience (B.Sc Hons). I am a certified Shadow Work facilitator, and an Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained graduate from IFSCA’s Stepping Stones program.

More about my training and experience, what I am involved in, and what currently supports and feeds into my private practice can be found here.

I offer in-person sessions at my practice in South Herefordshire & Online sessions via Zoom.
Schedule a free 20-minute exploratory call or find out more at www.inner-truth.co.uk
Frankie Turton – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Frankie Turton – Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Frankie Turton

Healing The Shadow Practitioner

Areas: Bristol and Frome

 Email: frankie@likenoothertherapy.co.uk

Telephone: 07917127407

Website: www.likenoothertherapy.com

Hi, I’m Frankie Turton.

As a Shadow Guide, I guide people through immersive 1:1 sessions to uncover the hidden parts of themselves and transform recurring patterns into sources of insight, confidence, and energy.

I know what it’s like to feel stuck. My experience with depression and disordered eating has shown me the quiet power of curiosity, courage, and compassion in meeting the parts of ourselves we often turn away from.

Everything shifted for me when I discovered shadow work. Up until then, I had spent years analysing and understanding my trauma, but I hadn’t truly processed it. Through embodied, immersive 5-hour shadow integration sessions, I experienced what it means to feel, move through, and integrate hidden parts of myself. I was in awe of how transformative it is, how fully it allows me to connect with and release patterns that have long held me back. That sense of something profoundly different, almost magical in how it works became the inspiration behind the name of my Private Practice – Like No Other Therapy and is the foundation of the work I now offer to others.

I’m especially interested in how patterns pass down through generations. Working with children, young people, and families in my career has shown me how inherited beliefs and coping strategies can shape relationships and emotional wellbeing. My approach is rooted in no-blame: we explore where these patterns come from and choose what to carry forward and what to leave behind.

I studied Social Policy at the London School of Economics, and I’m a qualified Shadow Guide through Healing the Shadow as well as an ICF-certified Coach. I’m committed to ongoing learning and personal growth, and my practice evolves as I do – blending professional knowledge with lived experience to create a space that is safe, responsive, authentic, and alive.

If you choose to work with me, I want you to know that I see us as equals – you’re the expert on your own life, and I’m here to walk alongside you. At the same time, I bring my experience, care, and presence to hold the space so you can feel safe to explore what’s been hidden and discover what’s waiting underneath. Together, we can notice the patterns shaping your life, meet the parts of yourself that have been silenced, and open the door to new ways of being.

I currently offer face-to-face sessions in Frome (soon to be in Bristol), as well as online sessions for clients everywhere. If you’re ready to explore your inner world and begin transforming the patterns holding you back, book a free discovery call today.