About Lizzie
I became a therapist in 2004 when I qualified in Sound healing at the British Academy of Sound Healing. Within 6 years, at the age of 37, I developed severe anxiety summounting in frequent panic attacks, claustraphobia, agoraphobia and derealization.
I was shocked by how completely broken I felt and how life seemed so unmanageable. I felt ashamed for having these symptoms after everything I knew.
I had been on a spiritual path for a long time and believed I should know better or at least know how to eradicate what I was with. I had no idea that the practices I was using was actually bypassing what was requiring connection. my spiritual practices were reinforcing an avoidance of all that lied within me and the trauma that resided in my body.
Eventually after trying so many ways to get rid of it, The panic was my way back to myself, to the healing within my system. When I was finally able to stop and listen to the panic I reached a part of myself that was calling for connection and support. a young one inside that was screaming ‘Stop shutting me out’, ‘stop hiding me’, ‘I’m scared’, ‘I’m needy’, ‘I’m lost’. ‘I can’t do this alone’.
I had become a perfect example of complex P.T.S.D: I was trying to carry everything on my own, I had learnt to be hyper individualistic, I told myself I was fine when I wasn’t and tried to do life on my own. I learnt at a young age to present as fine, adapt to what others need and to attune to other peoples emotions and bury my own, so much so I didn’t even know I had them until panic and anxiety delivered them so abruptly to me.
I was horrified by the feelings and thoughts I was experiencing. I felt deeply ashamed that I felt needy of others and that I was so scared. I didn’t realise that these feelings and thoughts were actually healthy normal responses and that what I was feeling was past sensations from my childhood.
In the meantime, in 2010, a friend introduced me to E.F.T (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and though I was cynical I was desperate enough to give it a go. I was blown away by the experience. I felt so much better after that initial tapping session. Within weeks I was training in Faster EFT (Eutaptics). I went back to each training taking in everything I could. I did swaps and free sessions with anyone who was up for it. I learnt so much through all of those sessions on me and on other people. I was so dedicated and so passionate that within a few months the word spread and people started to come for sessions with me through word of mouth. I went on to train in E.F.T, Provacative Energy EFT and Matrix EFT. And I felt myself change. I was finally able to experience a more fuller life, to go out, to turn the light off at night, to travel in a car, to go to cafes again. But, something wasn’t quite right. There was still so much material in me rising to the surface and no amount of tapping was getting rid of it!
It gradually dawned on me that I was using tapping in the same way I had treated myself most of my life; as something to fix. Basically I was tapping to be someone else! and this was reinforcing the shame and avoiding the voice within that needed compassion and companionship.
In 2015 I entered a 5 year initiation with a body work Shamen woman who helped me learn, or should say unlearn everything I knew. She re-parented me and helped deliver me back to myself. I will always be eternally grateful for this incredible elder and her holding. She was the first therapist I worked with that was not scared of the darkness and the big emotions within me. She was willing to sit with me in that place. And this, it turned out was what my psyche and body was craving all along. to be welcomed and allow my emotions to arise. in doing so a transformation could take place and i began to finally feel the panic release and life become fuller again.
During those years I created my own practice. Almost night after night I would sit. At first it felt almost impossible, but I learned to sit and be with all the intense feelings and sensations within me and give them a home to rest. Just the act of allowing and witnessing them transformed them and I was blown away by the alchemy that happened within myself. Soon it actually became a place of solace. I loved those intimate times with myself and the quiet peace I would often feel after the storm. Through this practise i began to feel my own divine power and sacred knowledge that was within me. I was no longer afraid of myself, of being alone and of the darkness. as a result I was no longer afraid of other peoples darkness and fear. My work with clients became more powerful and effective. they began to experience bigger shifts as I met more and cleared more within myself. This became my dedication to my clients. To midwife them back to themselves and to sit with them in that place of darkness knowing this is where the light gets in and alchmey takes place.
In 2018 I witnessed the death of my beloved partner Paul valentine. In my younger days that felt like one of my biggest fear was the loss of a loved one. I felt I would not cope without my beloved in my life. But The experience of being so deeply with myself and to tend to all my emotions showed me how capable i was. SO much so I was blessed to be with him in the final moments of his life and be a part of his transition.
Prior to life as a practitioner i was in a girl band for 10 years and studied anthropology for 3 years in which i received a bachelor of science honours.
I am passionate aboout wildlife and I love gardening. When I am not working with beautiful people I am often found in my garden. I am somewhat controversial in that I don’t see weeds as a problem! My ethos is to manage as little as I can and let nature do her thing. She knows how to heal just like we do when we are given the right environment. I love to help people see that the part within themselves they see as a kind of weed is often an incredible, intelligent part that saved them at some point in their life. Weeds are not our enemies. They show us where our strength lies. They are the parts of us that knew how to survive in the face of disconnection and pain.
Lizzie’s qualifications and trainings:
Much of my training has come from my own direct experience of months and years of journeying within the darkness and pain within myself and my years of experience with helping others traverse and alchemise difficult feelings and beliefs.
Some of my education has come from great people around me and before me that have generously parted their wisdom. I don’t think I have enough space here to mention all of these people nor, unfortunately can I remember everyone but some of the highlights are:
Pete Walker and his book ‘Complex PTSD’
N.A.R.M book ‘Healing Developmental Trauma’
Reginald Ray ‘Touching Enlightenment’
Scott Kilioby Enquiries.
The Presence Process by Michael Brown.
The Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Bradenoch.
‘The Art of Recieving and Giving’ by Betty Martin.
‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’ by Francis Weller.
‘Womb Awakening’ by Seren Bertrand and Azra Bertrand.
Peter A Levine and all his great work.
‘Unlocking the Emotional Brain’ by Bruce Ecker and Robin Ticic.
‘The Transforming Power of Affect’ by Diana Fosher
Bressel Van De Kolk and all his great work.
Anything by Esther Perel.
A great inspiration and guide to my work is Thomas Hubl, a modern mystic. I have been following him since 2018.
Courses I have attended include:
2019-2020 conscious Healing 6 month Online Course taught live by thomas Hubl.
2021 April – June. Love, Trauma and healing Online Course. taught live by Thomas Hubl.
2021-2022 November – April. Collective Healing Journey Online Course. taught live by Thomas Hubl.
2022-2023 6 month online course. Ancestral healing journey. taught live by Thomas Hubl.~
2004: Certified Sound Healer. 3 year Sound Healing Diploma with the British academy of Sound healing
https://britishacademyofsoundtherapy.com/
2011 Certified Level 1 Faster EFT
2011 Certified Level 2 FasterEFT
2012 Certified Level 3 Faster EFT
2012 October. Certified Level 4 advanced Faster EFT
https://www.fastereft.com/?preview_theme_id=131720282312
2014 Provocative Energy techniques EFT with Master EFT practitioner Steve Wells and Dave live 2 day training london:
https://www.eftdownunder.com/overview-of-provocative-energy-techniques-pet/
2015 Certified in Havening. Training Havening Techniques
12th and 13th April. Carol Robertson. https://www.havening.org/
15th and 16th Sept 2015 retake of raining for Certified Havening at Birkbeck, london with Tony and Louise Burgess:
https://www.havening.org/directory/grid/view/details/14/4-Tony-Burgess
Feb 2014. 2 day training. Certified in I.E.M.T Integral Eye Movement Therapy practitioner course taught by Andrew Austin.
November 2014. 3 day Coherence Therapy Workshop With Robin Ticic.
9th, 10th May 2015. Two day Coherence Therapy Workshop with Bruce Ecker and Robin Ticic.
16th -21st Nov 2016 5 day training of E.F..t and matrix Reimprinting with Karl dawson live. Brighton.
7th/8th December 2019. The power of Presence. Women and men awakening and healing together’ Nicholas Janni and Joey walters. London 2 day workshop.
Sept 2020 10 week course. Awakening the Body Dharma Ocean taught live online by Reginald Ray.
2020-2021 conscious Healing 6 month Online Course taught live by thomas Hubl.
2021 April – June. Love, Trauma and healing Online Course. taught live by Thomas Hubl.
2021-2022 November – April. Collective Healing Journey Online Course. taught live by Thomas Hubl.
2022-2023 6 month online course. Ancestral healing journey. taught live by Thomas Hubl.~
2022 29th Jan – 2nd of Feb. Retake of E.F.T level 1 and 2 and Matrix reimprinting course taught by Karl Dawson in person. Brighton.
2023 N.A.R.M; NeuroAffective Relational Model for Healing Complex Trauma. Level 1 narm informed Professional
online training one of the first models specifically designed to address Complex Trauma.
2023-2024 6 month online course. the Spiritual Healing journey Online Course. Thomas Hubl.
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