ABOUT LUCY

Dancing and psychotherapy (both as a client

and therapist) have been a constant thread

running throughout my adult life, often weaving

together and influencing each other. I started

my MA in Humanistic and Integrative

Psychotherapy at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy

and Counselling in 1995 and have now worked

in private practice as a psychotherapist for over

25 years. My love of dancing began when I

discovered 5Rhythms while living at the

Findhorn Foundation in North East Scotland in

my early twenties but it wasn’t until I returned to

live in the wider Findhorn Community over 15

years later with my husband and two sons, that I

began to experience embodied movement

practice as vital for my well being and personal

development.
 

My original training hadn’t included working with the body and it was my growing sense of embodiment
through dancing 5Rhythms regularly which catalysed my desire to bring a somatic focus into my
professional work. As a result, I trained in Somatic Trauma Therapy Training with Babette Rothschild and
a few years later completed an Advanced Diploma in Embodied-Relational Therapy. This approach has
emerged from Reichian bodywork and Post-Reichian body psychotherapy and means that my practice has
evolved over the years to offer relational body psychotherapy. I am a full member of the European
Association For Body Psychotherapy.
 

It was through my Embodied-Relational Therapy (ERT) training that I discovered and trained in Dance of Awareness   in 2017 (ERT is one of the main approaches that underpins this embodied movement practice) and immediately felt I’d found a home for myself. It brilliantly combined two of my loves in life - dancing and
psychotherapy (thanks to Tim Brown and Clare Osbond for such an inspired integration!) and I knew I had
found the practice I wanted to dance and teach.
 

The newest thread to weave itself into my life came just before the pandemic when I first participated in a
conscious connected breathwork group and was immediately blown away by how quickly it created a bridge to unconscious material, allowing profound therapeutic release and access to heightened states of consciousness. Excited to help the people I work with to experience these benefits, I qualified with Breathing Space in 2023 to become a certified breathwork facilitator, and have been regularly running breathwork groups in Findhorn.
 

Along with spending time in nature, especially wild swimming and hillwalking in the stunning Scottish
highlands with my husband and dog, psychotherapy, embodied movement and breathwork all now
combine in keeping me sound in body, mind and spirit. I feel very blessed to have access to these
practices in my life to help me fulfil my potential and feel passionate about offering them to others to
support their healing and growth.