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 and have regular supervision and peer supervision. They undertake their own personal shadow work sessions regularly and undergo monitored continued professional development.
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: www.shadowworkforest.uk
A lifetime in industry has given me substantial experience of management and leadership: the kind of leadership that fits into a hierarchical organisation and strives to meet deadlines and corporate objectives.
In contrast, more recently I have been attracted to the heart-centred qualities of Sovereign leadership that are so necessary for a healthy and healing relationship with my clients as we explore and navigate their shadows together. And together with these heart-centred, Sovereign qualities, I have discovered an ability to connect and work with the sensitive Inner Child that resides inside all of us, and which bears the scars of many childhood wounds.
For so many people, the emotional wounds our parents bring to their parental role, coupled with the demands of a busy life, result in the innermost needs of their children not being met. This was certainly true for me. I grew up on a busy farm where the paramount demands of farming life often meant that my emotional needs were not met. And so, during my own life journey I have faced deep personal loss and addiction. In fact, my own healing journey started with confronting addiction in a 12-step fellowship, and helping others to do the same.
The two year journey I have travelled with Marianne Hill and Rod Boothroyd during the Healing The Shadow training programme has served me in two ways; firstly to delve deeply into my own shadows and uncover my deepest wounds and bring healing to them, and secondly to equip me with the knowledge and skills, which, together with my own life-experience and innate abilities, enables me to facilitate others on their own journey. The knowledge of processes and psychological theory is important, but maybe more important are the qualities of warmth, empathy and attunement which I bring to the client relationship.
My way of working is always to be client centred and client led, to allow the client to lead the journey of self-development, to be a companion and expert guide on the path that they follow, and to provide the support, encouragement and safe holding necessary for them to explore the deeper, darker parts of themselves. In this way, they can bring conscious light and healing to their oldest wounds, allowing them to grow and mature into a life of meaning and joy unfettered by the shackles of the past.
Laura Stoddart – Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Laura Stoddart
Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Areas: South Devon and Frome, Somerset
Telephone: 07854 374 130
Email:laurashadowhealing@gmail.com
Website: shadowworkdevon.co.uk
Rachel Mitchell – Healing the Shadow Practitioner
Rachel J Mitchell
Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Area: Bristol
Contact: Racheljmitchell88@gmail.com
Website: shadowworkbristol.co.uk
Rachel is a healing the shadow practitioner located in Bristol where she lives with her partner and their two boys ages 14 and 11. She’s been immersed in the world of psychological and emotional healing for the past decade and is delighted to welcome you to her practice. Rachel is a warm, and empathetic practitioner with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and creating a safe, collaborative space where every aspect of you is invited into the room.
She welcomes LGBTQIA+ clients, and clients from all ethnic backgrounds to her practice.
Click here to read testimonials from Rachel’s clients
Conroy Harris – Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Conroy Harris
Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Area: Oxford
email: conroy.harris@hotmail.com
Telephone: 07867 785809
Conroy Harris is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of abandofbrothers, a role which he has occupied for two years. This position has 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 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 now also 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.
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.
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: franciscocabezawest@gmail.com
Dan Hartley – Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Dan Hartley
Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Area: East Sussex
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.
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 facilitate shadow work and experiential psychotherapeutic process as an effective method of supporting others to fully explore their inner world and to heal; to clear their barriers to growth and joyful living, and to discover and reclaim their agency and authenticity.
The power and potential of this work excites me and I am passionate about holding a shame free space for men and woman to feel safe and to connect deeply and truthfully with themselves.
I have an academic background in Psychology and Neuroscience (B.Sc Hons) and am excited how contemporary advances in neurophysiology theoretically underpin the efficacy of experiential work with emotional wounds, re-regulating the underlying physiological impact (disautonomia) of all types of trauma on the body, and helping to bring individuals back to a felt sense of safety.
I value all modalities that offer deep and direct healing and I’m a professional member of The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy and a registered psychedelic integration practitioner with IPT. I am actively involved in the IPT community and benefit from the excellent academic and experiential CPD they offer.
Outside of my work with private clients, I have been actively involved in Men’s Work for the last seven years, facilitating regularly in a local group that I established five years ago. I’m also a member of The Mankind Project UK & Ireland (MKP), and a local group leader for JourneymanUK, a national charity offering contemporary ‘rite of passage’ initiation weekends and fortnightly mentoring for teenage boys.
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 believe that I can only support others’ deep inner work to the extent that I am intimately involved in my own.
I bow to your willingness and courage to turn towards your difficulties, bringing light to those troubled parts and your limitations. In doing so you will find greater ease and alignment, develop greater compassion for yourself and others, and become more available to be in service to your community and to the times. I believe that the ripples outwards from these inner shifts cannot be underestimated and are a key component of the greater shift that our culture needs.
I offer in-person sessions at my practice in South Herefordshire & Online sessions via Zoom. I also offer an online 3 month transformational one-to-one program for men.
Schedule a free 20-minute exploratory call at www.inner-truth.co.uk
Marianne Hill – Healing The Shadow Practitioner
Marianne Hill
Healing The Shadow Trainer
Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Group Facilitator
Area: Frome, Somerset
Website: www.healingtheshadow.co.uk
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.