Email: info@awakeninnersense.co.uk

Senior UKCP Integrative Psychotherapist | Clinical Supervisor | Specialist in Neuro-Somatic & Complex Trauma Recovery

Clinical Philosophy & Therapeutic Approach

I am a Senior UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with 14 years of formal UKCP accreditation, over 20 years of clinical psychotherapeutic depth, and 30 years of somatic mastery. My practice, Awaken Inner Sense, bridges high-level psychodynamic theory and outcome-oriented psychotherapies with advanced neuro-somatic regulation.

Many of the individuals I work with—particularly highly articulate leaders, creatives, neurodivergent women, and survivors of complex, multi-dimensional trauma—are exceptionally verbal but somatically disconnected. They often have profound cognitive insight and "know" the intellectual theory of their distress, yet their nervous systems remain chronically dysregulated. I view trauma not as a cognitive issue to be managed through conversation alone, but as a stored systemic imprint across the autonomic architecture. My approach moves clients out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn survival loops to restore genuine, baseline safety at a cellular level.

Primary Clinical Specialisations
• Intertwined Complex Trauma Resolution: Safely navigating and untangling highly layered, multi-dimensional systems where two or more distinct clinical niches or life crises collide (e.g., unmasking late-identified neurodivergence while recovering from narcissistic abuse and endocrine/burnout exhaustion).
• Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Recovery: Dismantling chronic internalised shame, resolving the "fawn" survival adaptation, and reclaiming personal agency following prolonged relational trauma or post-narcissistic stress.
• The Neuro-Hormonal Intersection (Neuro-Menopause): Supporting the neurodivergent brain (ADHD/Autism) through major endocrine and hormonal transitions, targeting sensory overwhelm, brain fog, and executive fatigue.
• The "Unmasked Brain" (Neuro-Affirming Care): Specialising in the emotional integration, grief processing, and life restructuring that follows a late-life ADHD or Autistic diagnosis.
• High-Functioning Burnout & Autonomic Fatigue: Partnering with high-net-worth individuals, executives, and pioneers to resolve the deep-seated high-functioning anxiety and systemic collapse that standard coaching and cognitive therapies fail to reach.

Therapeutic Modalities
• Outcome-Oriented Psychotherapy: Evidence-based, psychodynamic clinical intervention focused on resolving early developmental conditioning and transgenerational trauma bonds.
• Neuro-Somatic Rewiring: Tracking autonomic nervous system states in real time to facilitate physical, bottom-up regulation.
• Subconscious Narrative Transformation: Hypno-psychotherapeutic frameworks designed to safely restructure deep unconscious defence mechanisms and implicit memory imprints.

Practice Structure & Onboarding Logistics
I work exclusively within deep-dive, highly boundaried 3-Month Clinical Containers designed to provide sustained containment, consistency, and pacing for intense trauma resolution.

To protect the clinical integrity and energetic boundaries of this work, I do not offer introductory or discovery calls. Onboarding and suitability screening are managed entirely via a secure digital intake process.

Structure: 6 intensive clinical sessions spaced strictly on a fortnightly rhythm over 3 months.
• Session Duration: 1.5 hours per therapeutic block.
• Clinical Allocation: Your initial comprehensive clinical consultation is built directly into the container as the first of your 6 sessions, allowing us to establish systemic mapping and begin deep clinical work immediately.
• Fixed Rhythm Commitment: To maintain the necessary therapeutic momentum, these sessions are dedicated exclusively to your system and cannot be paused, cancelled, or rearranged.

Pathway Options
• Singular Specialist Pathway 1: Dedicated to targeted trauma processing, singular neuro-affirming integration, or focused high-functioning burnout resolution.
• Intertwined Complex Trauma Pathway 2: A unified, multi-dimensional framework mandatory for highly layered systems where multiple clinical intersections overlap.

Clinical Supervision Services
As an accredited Clinical Supervisor with a Postgraduate Diploma (Master's Level) in Clinical Supervision, I provide specialist consults and guidance for senior practitioners, integrative therapists, and neurotherapists seeking to balance clinical rigour with advanced somatic and energy medicine modalities. I offer 1.5-hour neuro-somatic supervision.

Format & Availabilities
• Online: Nationwide (UK-wide) via secure video pathways, Tuesdays through Thursdays (10 am – 4 pm).
• Remote: International/Worldwide clinical consultations, Tuesdays through Thursdays.
• In-Person: Limited Friday clinical availability at Appleseeds Health Shop, Ulverston, Cumbria.

I'm a hypnotherapist and trainee integrative psychotherapist based in Cheltenham, offering both online and in-person sessions. My approach is rooted in empathy, understanding, and building a strong, trusting relationship with you. True transformation happens when you feel heard, supported, and safe enough to explore your thoughts and emotions.

Combining clinical hypnotherapy with integrative psychotherapy, I draw on person-centred and trauma-informed methods to provide a personalised approach for your unique needs. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, stress, self-esteem issues, or emotional blocks, I work with you to create sustainable, positive change.

With a Master's in Psychology and ongoing postgraduate training, I offer evidence-based techniques like Solution-Focused Therapy and relaxation practices to promote lasting wellbeing. Our work together is collaborative, with you setting the pace.

I’m here whenever you feel ready to take the next step. I speak both English and Polish and offer flexible online or in-person sessions from my therapy centre in Cheltenham town centre.

I specialise in spiritual crisis, spiritual emergency, and other unusual or ‘anomalous’ experiences. Spiritual crises are often associated with psychological or emotional distress and there are many approaches and techniques to help manage them successfully. I work with the Spiritual Crisis Network in the UK to provide support for people affected by spiritual crisis and I am a Spiritual Emergence Coach registered with the IMHU in the U.S. I am also currently undertaking PhD research into this area through the Applied Psychology department at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK.

I am a fully qualified Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Life Coach with extensive experience across the mental health sector, including roles within Social Services, the NHS, and the voluntary sector.
Alongside my general psychotherapy practice, I am the founder and director of easibirthing® Fertility to Parenthood. Through this work, I support women and their partners using Hypnosis and Psychotherapy for fertility, pregnancy, hypnobirthing, postnatal mental health, and parenting. I also ran a specialist training school for therapists for 17 years.

I am an accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), a Fellow of the National Society of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, and registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). I adhere to all professional codes of ethics, including ongoing supervision, professional indemnity insurance, and continuous professional development. I am also a registered consultant for BUPA, AXA, AVIVA, and WPA private healthcare clients.

I hold the UKCP Child and Adolescent Proficiency Marker and have extensive experience working with children and young people aged 8–18. From 2012 to 2021, I managed the counselling service at Godolphin School in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

I am an Honorary Fellow of the National Society for Talking Therapies and was the first recipient of the Brookhouse and Biddle Award for contribution to hypnosis and psychotherapy. I am also an appointed practitioner for South Wiltshire and West Hampshire within the Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group.

I am a mother of three and a grandparent of three. My professional passion for birth, parenting, and family relationships is rooted in my upbringing within a large extended family in rural Northern Ireland.

Email: volker@obnat.us

I am an integrative hypnotherapist with added psychotherapeutic training on my pathway to become an integrative psychotherapist. I work across multiple psychotherapeutic models like parts, Gestalt, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and others, tailormade to your needs. Hypnosis often forms part of a wider modality.
My background is in sales and I understand what it means to be anxious. Working with middle aged men, I often find that when we get to midlife, there is something that we want to explore. I will help you to do exactly that, creating a safe space to explore why you might feel different or stuck.