Practitioners
Rachel Parkyn
Rachel is a The Executive Director of The Swansea Wellbeing Centre and has worked in a number of Community based settings. She is a Social Work graduate from Cardiff University, and has expertise in numerous areas including children and families and HIV support work. Over the last 15 years Rachel has worked as a wellbeing therapist supporting cancer patients. Rachel has a special interest in trauma work. Her extensive specialist training in Yoga and Mindfulness is combined in her nurturing and supportive trauma-informed classes. Her vision is one of community empowerment and as the Director of The Swansea Wellbeing Centre, she brings her passion for equality and her training in Compassion Practice into her role. Rachel's commitment is that the Centre is considered a safe place for all and that together, we thrive.
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David Trick
David is a qualified and experienced integrative counsellor offering a safe, professional, and welcoming service for adults. He has over twenty years of experience working across mental health services, including inpatient hospitals, rehabilitation settings, community homes, and independent living environments. David has been practising counselling and psychotherapy since 2004 and has worked alongside people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds. He supports individuals with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, identity, and suicidal thoughts. David also helps clients reflect on the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on their lives. He takes a holistic, integrative approach, incorporating psychoeducation where appropriate, and believes no concern is ever too small.
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Mike Buckley
Mike teaches weekly, friendly classes in Tai Chi (for men) and Meditation, both offering gentle yet powerful paths to releasing tension and anxiety. These practices train attention to settle more fully into the present moment, gradually transforming how participants feel about themselves in ways often unexpected at the beginning. Mike began studying Yang-style Tai Chi in 1990, and his teaching is rooted in the principles of Rooting, Sticking, and Yielding—reflecting connection to the ground, open awareness, and a deeper aspect of self beyond body and mind. Since 2008, he has also practised meditation, sharing an accessible, non-religious awareness practice that nurtures intuitive guidance. Both disciplines invite students to discover who they are beyond past experiences, thoughts, and beliefs.
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Philippa Castell
Philippa Castell is an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and Feldenkrais Method® practitioner, practicing in Swansea since 1991. She helps people move through life with greater ease, freedom, balance, and coordination, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing. Philippa teaches practical approaches to neuromuscular re-education that can relieve pain and tension, improve posture, increase mental alertness, and cultivate a sense of calm. Her work benefits people of all ages and abilities, from those seeking relief from chronic discomfort to those looking to enhance performance in daily life, work, or creative pursuits. Through her teaching, Philippa empowers clients to develop awareness of how they move, improving their overall wellbeing, resilience, and confidence in both body and mind.
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Karen MacKinnon
Karen’s teaching draws on a range of yoga traditions, offering a balanced practice that includes asana (physical postures), pranayama (breathwork), and quieter, meditative practices such as restorative yoga, guided meditation, and yoga nidra. She creates a space of acceptance and deep relaxation, supporting students to reconnect with a sense of peace and inner stillness that can easily be lost in the busyness of everyday life. Her classes are suitable for all levels, with modifications, alternatives, and props offered to ensure accessibility and inclusion. Karen believes yoga is for everyone. She has practised yoga for 25 years and taught for 15, is a fully qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher trained at Triyoga London, and has continued her studies in yoga nidra and yoga for menopause.
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Alistair Armitage
Alistair is a certified, fully insured, and accredited hypnotherapist and integrative counsellor with a psychodynamic focus. He takes a holistic, client-centered approach to mental and emotional wellbeing, tailoring therapy to each person’s unique needs. Alistair uses a range of techniques, including Hypnotherapy, Regression, Rewind Technique, Family Constellation Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Mindfulness Coaching, and Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversities (GSRD) theory, to address trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and life challenges. With both lived and professional experience in LGBTQ+ communities, polyamory, kink, neurodivergence, and alternative lifestyles, he works confidently with queer, trans, and gender questioning clients. Alistair provides a safe, non judgemental space, supporting all clients to explore their experiences, enhance self acceptance, and foster healing and personal growth.
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Ryan Gormley
Ryan is a dynamic and versatile dancer who has trained and performed with renowned companies including Matthew Bourne, Rubicon Dance Company, New Adventures, and Frantic Assembly. His work is driven by a strong passion for movement and storytelling, bringing depth, emotion, and precision to every performance. Known for his collaborative spirit and creative energy, Ryan enjoys exploring new ideas and pushing artistic boundaries. With a growing body of diverse experience and a bold, imaginative approach to dance, he continues to captivate audiences and establish himself as an exciting emerging talent in contemporary performance.
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Leanne Pugh
Lea is a certified sound and energy healer, reiki master and kundalini yoga teacher. Lea focus is to re-writing the blue print of the body using breath, sound and movement. Unblocking any stagnant energy, rewiring the brain, encouraging better sleep and supporting a less stressful response to life. Lea is a trauma informed practitioner with over 25 years working with both adults and children using psychodynamic therapies.
Lea specializes in sound baths, reiki, kundalini awakenings and one to one’s. Monthly sound baths and kundalini awakenings are held at the centre.
Vicky Ucele
Vicky teaches the still, quiet practice of Yin Yoga and has been teaching for around three years. She began with in-person classes in Swansea and Cardiff before moving into online and audio sessions over the past 18 months. Vicky is drawn to the simplicity of Yin Yoga and the deep release it offers, whether physical, emotional, or energetic. She views Yin as a calming and mindful practice, offering space to pause from a busy life and be present. Her teaching approach is functional rather than aesthetic, encouraging students to focus on sensation rather than shape. Recognising that every body and mind is different, Vicky supports students in adapting their practice to suit them. Her sessions also incorporate mindfulness, breathwork, and an introduction to ancient Chinese meridian theory, creating a balanced and thoughtful practice.
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Julie Copp
Julie Copp is the founder of Treinwales and has over 30 years’ experience working in the fitness and wellbeing industry. After years of teaching a wide range of classes and experiencing injury, Julie retrained in Pilates, yoga, Tai Chi, and mindfulness. Through this journey, she became aware of long held, unprocessed trauma within the body and discovered Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) as a powerful self care tool. Julie trained with the London College approximately five years ago and has since been delivering workshops, group classes, and 1:1 sessions. TRE® offers a gentle, natural way to release deep physical and emotional tension through a self-induced tremor technique, helping to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain. Julie is passionate about empowering others to reconnect with their bodies and experience lasting positive change.
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Susannah Hollett
Susannah is a qualified crystal therapist and crystal acupuncturist and works as a natural health consultant in the Mumbles and Swansea health shops. Bringing together the fields of crystal therapy, Chinese medicine, energy medicine, nutrition and food supplements, we will demonstrate how you can support your body physically. We will also energy test to find out where symptoms are coming from in your energy system, looking at the meridian system and the chakra system. Sessions will be informative, therapeutic and hands on, leaving you with a lot of information about yourself and a large tool box of techniques to work with.
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Jill Grange
Jill holds monthly drum circles at the centre and elsewhere in South Wales. She had been a regular at shamanic circles and ceremonies before starting her own eight years ago. Jill’s work background was as a nurse, midwife and TEFL teacher, and she’s currently studying for a Diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition. She’s also a Reiki Master, and a belly dancer.
Jill sees music, movement and energy work as fundamental to well-being, and to our heart centred connection with each other and to the planet. We connect also through honouring the seasons, the elements, and respectful ceremony.
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Chris Reed
Chris is an Integrative Counselling Psychotherapist with over 16 years’ experience, dedicated to supporting individuals through life’s challenges with warmth, compassion, and professionalism. He offers therapy in person across Swansea, Neath, and Port Talbot, as well as nationally via secure online platforms. Chris’s integrative approach means each session is tailored to the individual, drawing on CBT, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, EMDR trauma therapy, and Clinical Hypnotherapy. He works with issues such as trauma, anxiety, stress, relationships, and personal development. An accredited member of BACP and the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis, he is fully insured and DBS checked. His experience spans young people, emergency services, military personnel, EAP clients, and the LGBTQ+ community. Chris is committed to ongoing professional development and regular clinical supervision.
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Rose Fisher
Rose began teaching in 2016, and has continued to learn and develop her knowledge & skills in the years since. Being a student first, and teacher second, she has furthered her learning by training additionally in Children & Teen Yoga, 300hrs training in Rishikesh (India), and is currently training as a Yoga Therapist. She loves to utilise simple, yet challenging movements to enable functional mobility in day to day life, and to encourage the development of self awareness as well as mind-body connection through the physical practice of yoga. Rose is also a qualified counsellor, and firmly believes in the healing powers of yoga for the mind; she hopes to empower you with the skills to stay well, through her classes and offerings.
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Angela Morris
Angela has been practising acupuncture for over 15 years, having completed her degree at the College of Traditional Acupuncture in Warwick. She continues to deepen her knowledge through ongoing study to underpin and enhance her clinical practice. Alongside her acupuncture work, Angela has over 15 years’ experience supporting families affected by trauma and domestic abuse, bringing a compassionate and informed approach to her work. She supports people with their general health and wellbeing, tailoring treatments to individual needs. Angela is also a certified NADA practitioner, specialising in auricular (ear) acupuncture to support addiction recovery, relaxation, weight management, and smoking cessation. She is a licensed member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and is committed to providing safe, professional, and holistic care.
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Kim Morris
Kim is an integrative counsellor and qualified life coach who is passionate about providing a safe, welcoming, and supportive space for clients. She works collaboratively, offering opportunities where appropriate for individuals to develop practical techniques to help them identify and work towards meaningful change. Kim is friendly, calm, approachable, and empathic, and believes deeply in the power of being truly listened to. She brings compassion, care, and focused attention to each client she supports. Kim is a registered member of BACP and has volunteered at the Swansea Wellbeing Centre since January 2021. She also brings over 15 years’ experience working in the NHS and 13 years with Macmillan Cancer Support. Kim supports people with issues including anxiety, stress, depression, self-esteem, grief and loss, trauma, relationships, isolation, loneliness, and cancer-related challenges.
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Ruth Harlow
Ruth has been creating and leading transformational retreats and workshops across Swansea and Gower for the past eight years. Her work weaves together meditative yoga, sound healing and gong baths, kirtan (mantra singing), poetry dives, movement, and music to support deep reconnection and self-exploration. Ruth’s offerings invite people to slow down, tune in, and reconnect with themselves and the natural flow of life. With a warm and intuitive approach, she creates nurturing and inspiring spaces that encourage reflection, expression, and renewal. Her retreats and workshops are designed to support personal growth, wellbeing, and a deeper sense of connection.
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Julie Hughes
Julie is a registered mental health nurse (RMN) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and a qualified EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) practitioner. She has over 17 years’ experience working with individuals across a wide range of mental health settings. Julie is fully DBS checked and brings a calm, professional, and compassionate approach to her work. A forces veteran, she previously served for several years in the Royal Air Force before training as a nurse, giving her a strong understanding of trauma and resilience. Julie offers EMDR therapy to support people with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, stress, phobias, sleep difficulties, complicated grief, addictions, pain management including phantom limb pain, and issues relating to self-esteem and performance anxiety.
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Emma Evans
Emma began her yoga journey in 2001 after graduating from university. After many years working in the voluntary sector, she came to deeply value the physical and mental space that yoga created in her life, supporting both wellbeing and balance. Alongside her adult practice, Emma is a qualified children’s yoga teacher and regularly works with children and families, creating inclusive and nurturing environments. She is also trauma-informed and thoughtfully weaves these principles into both regular and specialised classes. Emma is welcoming and approachable, with classes that are strong yet uplifting. Her teaching places a strong emphasis on awareness, encouraging students to feel and connect with their bodies from the inside out.
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Kelly Morgan
Kelly began her yoga journey in 2010 after trying to find space for herself due to a busy work and home life. Kelly has always been interested in supporting people to reach their full potential and this is what led her on her own journey to teach yoga Kelly is a big hearted, kind, loving and thoughtful person who is focused on creating a space where people come to practice yoga and gain a sense of wholeness and wellbeing. Her aim is for her classes to hold space for her students to grow and explore through their practice what is right for your body, mind and soul. Kelly's classes aim to cultivate balance, create space for inner healing and deepen a person's yoga practice through strength based asana and breath work. It is Kelly's mission to lead people towards their bliss. Sustainable, fulfilling bliss.
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Pamela Verdugo-Gascoyne
Pamela is a highly qualified therapist working with adults and couples, with over twenty years of clinical experience in individual, couple, and family therapy in both the UK and overseas. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health and is a registered member of the BACP. Pamela has extensive experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, personality and eating disorders, OCD, trauma and PTSD, as well as difficulties relating to alcohol use. Trained as a family and couples therapist, she works with relationship challenges including communication issues, life transitions, parenting, separation, remarriage, and bereavement. Her systemic approach views therapy as a collaborative process, creating new ways of understanding and change. Pamela also incorporates psychodrama, using creative techniques to explore emotions, beliefs, and embodied experience.
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WhatsApp: 07934 488722
Colin Cribb
Colin offers individual, couples, and family psychotherapy, taking a flexible approach to addressing distress and supporting positive change. Trained in existential, psychoanalytic, and systemic approaches in London and Cardiff, he completed a four year family therapy training at the Tavistock Clinic and The Family Institute at the University of South Wales in 2003. Colin have extensive experience working in health, social services, and charity settings, always prioritising the therapeutic relationship. Building mutual trust and fostering client led solutions is central to his practice, which is informed more by connection than technique. His work with a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, abuse, addiction, marital and family challenges, and neurodivergence.
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Tamsin Josty
MBBS, MA, MBACP
Tamsin Josty is an integrative counsellor providing a calm, confidential, and non-judgemental space for adults experiencing anxiety, grief, stress, burnout, or feeling lost in life. She offers counselling online and in person in Swansea. Tamsin retrained as a counsellor following a long career as an NHS health professional, working with neurodiverse and disabled children and their families. Her experience as a healthcare professional and bereavement support worker informs her work with NHS staff, unpaid carers, and individuals living with illness, disability, or loss, while also supporting adults facing a wide range of life challenges. She has worked in NHS counselling services, specialist carer organisations, and Cruse Bereavement Support. Tamsin holds a master’s degree in counselling and is a registered member of BACP, practising within their ethical framework.
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Rebecca Taylor
Becky combines local training with qualifications from the Bali International Spa Academy. She works intuitively, tailoring each massage to the individual needs of each client to support deep relaxation, improved circulation, immune function, and the release of stored tension. With a background in human rights work supporting trauma survivors around the world, Becky brings a warm, compassionate, and respectful approach to her practice. She understands how stress and life experiences can be held in the body, and how therapeutic massage can gently support balance, wellbeing, and a stronger mind–body connection.
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Bridget Lafferty
Bridget has over 20 years’ experience supporting people through some of life’s most challenging moments. Throughout her career, she has witnessed the powerful healing benefits of holistic and complementary therapies and has long practised self-care through massage, yoga, and meditation. Drawn to a more hands-on therapeutic role, Bridget is committed to offering a nurturing and restorative experience through Swedish Massage. Her aim is to provide a healing pause from daily life, supporting relaxation and balance in both body and mind. Bridget works closely with each client to understand their individual needs, whether that is easing aches and pains, improving flexibility, or creating a deeply relaxing treatment to help relieve stress and anxiety. Her sessions are held in a calm, welcoming space designed to help clients unwind, reset, and restore.
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Joanna Roffey
Joanna is a yoga and mindfulness teacher with a background in education and a lived understanding of the challenges of balancing work, family, and the demands of modern life. Trained in Ashtanga, Yin yoga, and mindfulness based practices, her teaching has evolved toward a more spacious, grounded, and sustainable approach through Somatic Yoga. Her classes gently weave together movement, stillness, and compassionate awareness, creating a calm and supportive environment. Rather than focusing on pushing or perfecting, she offers space for students to reconnect with their bodies, support nervous system regulation, and cultivate a deeper sense of ease, presence, and wellbeing.
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Zoë Evason
Zoë is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and an NCPS Accredited Professional Member, holding an Advanced Diploma in Relational Centred Counselling. She specialises in supporting family members and concerned others affected by another person’s addictive behaviours, including substance use, gambling, sex and pornography addiction, eating disorders, and OCD. Zoë is trauma informed and has over 16 years’ experience working in the field of addiction. She works with individuals, couples, families, and relationship groups, offering both short- and long-term therapy tailored to individual needs. Sessions are available face to face, by telephone, or online. Zoë also delivers training workshops and therapeutic group work focused on addiction. Her aim is to empower people to manage life differently, improve relationships, and enhance self-worth, confidence, and quality of life.
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Carol Shephard
Carol Shephard is an experienced British Wheel of Yoga teacher who has been running classes for adults, children, toddlers, and families since 2003. She also teaches mindfulness in schools and is a member of the Natural Voice Network, bringing creativity, presence, and joy into her work. Carol’s classes are known for their lightness and warmth, supporting both physical and emotional wellbeing. She leads a friendly and accessible hatha yoga class that is gently challenging without being strenuous, with a mindful yet playful focus on breath, postures, and relaxation. Her teaching style is thoughtful and encouraging, creating a safe and welcoming space for all participants. Whether you are new to yoga or returning to practice, Carol’s classes offer an uplifting and balanced experience that nurtures both body and mind.
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Facebook: @wellbeingcarol
Clair Bibb
Clair is a Person Centred Integrative Counsellor that offers low cost counselling. Since qualifying in 2010, she has worked closely with children and families within the Social Care setting. She understands how trauma and difficult life experiences can impact on day to day life many years later, and how anyone can reach a point where circumstances become just too overwhelming. Clair provides a private space that is comfortable, without judgement and where you can bring any issue. With listening, acceptance and empathy, it is her aim to support your exploration of what matters most to you, for you to gain a greater understanding of yourself and your life, and to find your unique way forward for better wellbeing. BACP Member.
Gail Stewart
Gail is a trained nurse, classical singer, and Biodanza teacher with over five years’ experience using sound in workshops, schools, private events, festivals, and as a volunteer at the Maggie Centre. She specialises in instruments, chanting, and toning to positively support both mind and body. Combining her medical knowledge with her creative practice, Gail creates engaging and uplifting sessions that encourage wellbeing, balance, and emotional release. Passionate and dedicated, she offers a supportive and playful space where participants of all ages can connect with themselves and others, exploring the joy and transformative potential of sound for healing and personal growth.
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Lucy Haines
Lucy Haines is a qualified Meditation and Mindfulness teacher, trained with Connected Kids in Edinburgh in 2018. She is a member of the IICT and holds a full DBS. Her training included supporting children with ASD and ADHD, and she has a strong background working with children in schools, playgroups, and as a parent of three. Since 2019, Lucy has taught mindfulness in schools, 1:1 sessions, to families, and through children’s charities across Swansea. She focuses on children’s mental health, supporting those with anxiety, depression, trauma, and ACEs with positive outcomes. Her classes use breathwork, body scans, movement, sound, mindful exploration, and playful techniques to create a fun, engaging environment. Lucy works with children and families up to the age of 18.
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Helen Lewis-Smith
Helen is an integrative counsellor with over 25 years of experience working therapeutically with individuals, partners, groups, and families in statutory and non-statutory organisations. She draws upon cognitive behavioural, person centred, modern psychodynamic and existential models, which she uses to tailor a unique treatment plan for each person, according to the difficulties with which they are struggling and the changes they wish to make. Helen combines warmth with challenge and strives to create a trusting therapeutic relationship where open dialogue feels possible and where, through collaboration, individuals feel empowered to navigate change, so that they can live more fully. Cert Couns, PG Dip, MBACP Accredited.
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Diana O'Reill
Diana began studying yoga over twenty years ago in Toronto, Canada, and has been teaching for the past 16 years. During this time, she has trained with teachers from a range of disciplines, including Iyengar, Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Scaravelli-inspired traditions. Ultimately, her teaching is shaped by what she has learned through her own personal practice on the mat. Diana is deeply fascinated by the physical discipline of yoga and its ability to unite body, mind, and spirit. Her teaching style focuses on creating a safe and supportive space where students can practise with openness, autonomy, curiosity, and pleasure. Diana teaches monthly 2-hour classes and leads the BWY Foundation Course in Yoga at the Swansea Wellbeing Centre.
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Jacquie Fagan-Fox
Jacquie is a fully qualified Foot Health Practitioner and Cryo-therapist, offering professional and effective treatments for a wide range of common foot health concerns. She combines her specialist training to support clients with issues affecting the feet, alongside the consultation and removal of skin lesions using cryotherapy. Jacquie takes a caring and thorough approach to treatment, focusing on comfort, safety, and individual needs. Her aim is to help clients maintain healthy, pain free feet and address skin concerns with confidence and reassurance. By combining practical expertise with a calm and supportive manner, Jacquie provides high quality care in a welcoming environment, supporting both foot health and overall wellbeing.
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Jo Bailey
Jo is a Hatha Yoga teacher who trained with the Devon School of Yoga and Meni Farkash. She has been teaching chair yoga at the Swansea Wellbeing Centre for over a year, and it has quickly become her favourite class to lead. Jo creates a small, friendly, and supportive group environment where movement is gentle, accessible, and enjoyable, with plenty of laughter along the way. Her classes focus on mindful, intuitive movement using the steady support of a chair, combined with breath awareness to help reduce anxiety, improve concentration, and ease stress. Chair yoga with Jo supports strength, flexibility, balance, and posture, offering an adaptive yoga practice that can benefit people of all ages and abilities.
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Katherine Berry
Katherine is a Yin Yoga teacher who believes deeply in nurturing mental wellbeing through the power of movement, breathwork, and meditation. Her yoga journey began during lockdown, where she found solace, resilience, and emotional balance through regular practice. Inspired by the profound impact yoga had on her mental health, she completed a 250-hour teacher training with Meni of Agniyaana Yoga, with a particular focus on the relationship between yoga and mood. This training transformed her understanding of yoga as a powerful tool for emotional regulation and inner calm. Katherine currently offers a monthly Reset Yin Yoga class on Sunday each month, incorporating gentle asanas, breathwork, and guided meditation to help students feel grounded, empowered, and focused for the month ahead.
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Jodi Dilly
Jodi is a qualified counsellor and registered member of the BACP, holding degree in integrative counselling. She had worked with clients with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting problems, career challenges, OCD, ADHD and Autism. She believes in treating anyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she doesn't believe in stigmatizing labels. Jodi's approach combines cognitive-behavioural, humanistic and person centred and she believes the client is the expert. It takes courage to seek a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards change. Jodi is here to listen to you and offer you a non judgemental space.
Beth Cox
Beth supports people living with persistent or reoccurring pain to increase their energy and mobility so they can actively enjoy life. She believes that being able to trust in your body is key to dialling down your pain. She offers a step-by-step approach of simple, practical exercises for both the body and mind, helping people in long-term pain feel more themselves again. She does this through movement therapy and pain management. Beth helps her clients to feel safe to go at their own pace and to experience practical ways they can dial down their pain. Beth also offers yoga therapy to individuals and small groups.
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Alex Waters
Alex trained as a 3 Principles Practitioner and Facilitator in 2014 and has since devoted her private practice, 3 Principles Wales, to sharing this transformative mental health understanding with individuals and groups. She works across a wide range of settings, including Swansea Wellbeing Centre, schools, community mental health services, health and social care organisations, and prisons. Alex is passionate about supporting clients to reconnect with their innate wisdom and resilience, often reporting increased peace of mind, clarity, wellbeing, and creativity. With over 30 years’ experience in mental and emotional health, her background includes dramatherapy, counselling, homoeopathy, and creative training. She specialises in burnout, life transitions, young people, carers, and women. Sessions are offered face-to-face, online, or outdoors.
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Helen Roach
Helen qualified as a Nutritionist in 2004 at Greenwich University with a BSc in Human Nutrition. Since then she has worked with men and women, optimizing health through dietary interventions and natural remedies. The NHS, clinical practice & retail settings, training with numerous therapeutic supplement brands has shaped her expertise to date. Specializing in female health and specifically menopause, since 2020, gaining a Menopause Coaching & Mentor qualification. Helen is passionate about women's health, helping women navigate what their options are for optimal menopause outcomes. Educating women about nutrition and our changing nutrient needs as we age is a key message she aims to share.
Rob Williamson
Rob’s interest in mind–body work began in his teens through yoga and has developed over more than 30 years of study and practice. He is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy, Therapeutic NLP, CranioSacral Therapy, and SomatoEmotional Release. Rob has been in practice for 25 years, working alongside his wife Alison, supporting a wide range of clients. His work focuses on trauma recovery, anxiety in young people, and supporting clients with neurological conditions, brain injuries, and sports-related injuries. Rob has extensive experience working with autistic children and young adults, informed both professionally and personally as a parent. His person-centred approach emphasises listening, understanding, and supporting each individual’s capacity for recovery, growth, and wellbeing. Reg BRCP 1676
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Darrel Thomas
Darrel is a Humanistic and Integrative Counsellor offering accessible, affordable counselling to adults. With over 13 years’ experience supporting children, young people, and families in residential and social care, he brings a deep understanding of trauma, neurodivergence (including autism and ADHD), attachment wounds, and the lasting impact of difficult life experiences. His approach is rooted in person-centred values, drawing on integrative and pluralistic principles to tailor therapy to each individual. Darrel offers a warm, private, and non-judgemental space, supporting clients with empathy and gentle curiosity to explore their experiences, reconnect with their strengths, and create meaningful change. He is a member of NCPS.
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Sreenath Kuttiozhathil
Sree is a Chartered Physiotherapist with 20 years of clinical experience, currently working in a busy NHS outpatient musculoskeletal department in South Wales. He completed postgraduate training in Physiotherapy at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 2011 with commendation and have been registered to practise in the UK since 2013. Having worked internationally, he bring broad experience supporting patients of all ages with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and injuries. His practice is informed by the latest research, combining evidence based clinical systems with practical, effective techniques. He specialise in a blended approach of manual therapy and tailored exercise programmes, including Mulligan’s mobilisation and specialised rehabilitation exercises, to support recovery, improve function, and achieve meaningful, real world results.
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Paula Davies
Paula has been a yoga tutor for 50 years, teaching across the Education and Mental Health sectors for Local Authorities, as well as running her own private group classes. Alongside yoga, she has worked as a Remedial and Reflexology Therapist. Around 30 years ago, Paula became deeply involved in Buddhist meditation, and her meditation classes now draw from a variety of traditions. Her teaching focuses on discovering happiness and inner peace through the mind, guiding students to establish a short, regular home practice that can bring a fresh perspective to daily life. Paula’s classes are suitable for all levels, offering gentle, supportive guidance to help cultivate wellbeing, balance, and mindfulness.
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Áine Tormey
Áine is a homeopath, yoga teacher, and sound healer whose work is rooted in restoring a sense of aliveness, health, and wholeness. Her yoga classes are taught in a spirit of playfulness and curiosity, supported by clear instruction and a strong emphasis on safety and awareness. For over 20 years, Áine has supported people through ill health, accidents, and injury using homeopathic medicine, taking a holistic and compassionate approach to healing. She trained with the Irish School of Homeopathy in 2001 and completed her 300-hour yoga teacher training with Aurolab in 2014. Áine is also currently undertaking ongoing training in Biofield Tuning. Across all her practices, she creates a supportive and nurturing space that encourages balance, resilience, and deep connection to self.
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Zeanne Thomas
Zeanne is a fully registered practising Osteopath with extensive experience treating both chronic and acute pain for people from all walks of life. She takes a holistic, person centred approach, tailoring each treatment to the individual while considering the wider context of their work, family life, social commitments, diet, and hobbies. This whole person perspective supports both effective recovery and long term health and wellbeing. Passionate about osteopathy, Zeanne believes it to be one of the most effective natural approaches to pain relief and physical restoration. She prides herself on delivering high quality, hands on care in a calm and supportive environment, helping clients improve mobility, restore balance, and enhance overall physical and mental wellbeing.
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Anthea Jones
Anthea is a qualified BACP counsellor known for her warm, compassionate, and down to earth approach. She brings many years of experience supporting people through a wide range of personal challenges and offers thoughtful follow up to help clients feel understood and supported as they work towards lasting change. Anthea provides counselling in a variety of ways, including indoor sessions, outdoor walk-and-talk therapy, and book therapy, which can be combined to suit individual needs. Indoor sessions are recommended as a starting point, while outdoor sessions offer a relaxed, movement based option. Book therapy involves working through carefully chosen self help books together to explore ideas and create meaningful change. Whatever the format, Anthea’s focus is on creating a safe, supportive space where clients feel heard, guided, and empowered to move forward in their own way.
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Jan Wigley
Jan is an integrative counsellor with 25 years’ experience supporting individuals, as well as looked-after and adopted children and adults referred through social services. She brings a compassionate and professional approach to her work, creating safe spaces for reflection, growth, and healing. Jan runs a weekly Writing for Wellbeing class, where participants are guided to explore and connect with their own unique stories in a fun, supportive, and informative environment. Through both counselling and creative work, she helps people gain insight, build resilience, and find personal empowerment on their journey toward emotional and mental wellbeing.
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Holli Yeoman
Holli is a qualified Integrative Counsellor who completed an in depth Level 6 Diploma with the Welsh Psychotherapy Institute in Cardiff. She gained four years of experience offering sessions through their Affordable Therapy Service, where she built a strong client base alongside a supportive professional community. Holli is now expanding her private practice as a registered member of BACP and works in line with their ethical framework. She is fully insured and holds a current DBS certificate. Holli offers 50-minute counselling sessions, usually on a weekly basis. Her fees operate on a ‘pay what you can’ model within a range of £35–£55, with further concessions available in some circumstances. She aims to make counselling as accessible, supportive, and ethically grounded as possible.
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Howard Martin
Howard is a qualified and experienced UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) therapist, offering both short and long term therapy. He works with a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, stress, and sexual and relationship difficulties. Drawing on both professional training in counselling and psychotherapy and his own lived experience of overcoming personal challenges, Howard brings a deep understanding of how different approaches suit different people. His integrative style means sessions are tailored to the individual, using methods that best meet each client’s needs. These may include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person Centred Counselling, Humanistic, and Psychoanalytic approaches. Howard’s aim is to help clients develop greater awareness of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and patterns, supporting positive change and improved wellbeing in everyday life.
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Francesca Hampson
Francesca was first drawn to healing sounds after experiencing the profound peace brought to her by quartz crystal singing bowls. This pursuit of deep relaxation and inner calm now forms the heart of the sound baths she offers at the Wellbeing Centre, as well as on retreats and workshops. Trained in crystal singing bowls in Belgium and multi-instrument sound healing in Somerset, Francesca is also Reiki attuned and qualified as a Yin yoga teacher, massage therapist, and aromatherapist. Her sound baths are beautifully multi-sensory, combining gentle physical touch, essential oils, meditation, and heart-led intentions. Francesca specialises in crystal instruments including quartz singing bowls, crystal chalice, pyramid, harp, and bamboo wind chimes, all tuned to 432Hz. She creates a warm, welcoming, and deeply calming space for all.
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Catherine Thomas
Catherine has worked as a counsellor in a variety of settings for many years and offers a compassionate, supportive approach to help clients recover and thrive. She provides empathy alongside practical strategies and tools, supporting people through a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, and persistent overthinking. Catherine works with challenges arising from work, relationships, health, sexuality, or difficult past experiences. She also has specialised training and experience supporting individuals who may be self-medicating with food, alcohol, or substances, as well as those living with addiction or eating disorders. Catherine’s aim is to help clients rebuild a sense of safety, balance, and wellbeing. She is an accredited member of the BACP and holds a range of professional qualifications.
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Jar Vibes
Jar is a Tai Chi teacher with over 25 years of training in traditional Tai Chi lineages and a strong background in cultural wellbeing research. Her teaching offers a grounded and authentic approach, making her classes well suited to beginners as well as those returning to movement after a break. Jar’s practice focuses on mindful, flowing movement, breath awareness, and balance, supporting both physical ease and mental clarity. Drawing on her research experience, she brings a thoughtful understanding of how movement practices contribute to overall wellbeing and resilience. Jar creates a calm, inclusive learning environment where students are encouraged to move at their own pace, develop body awareness, and reconnect with a sense of steadiness and flow in everyday life.
thejarvibes@gmail.com
07536 948121
Instagram: @jarvibes_
Cheryl Louise McClurg
Cheryl has practised yoga for over 20 years; she retrained as a yoga and meditation teacher following a corporate career that left her feeling burnt out. She moved from working and living in the City of London to the beautiful peninsula of Swansea after falling in love with the mystical lands of Cymru. Cheryl’s classes are very much a spiritual practice; expect a gentle peaceful environment focussed on deepening your practice and your connection. Having walked her own path to rediscover herself, find peace and connect to her inner wisdom - it is her honour to serve her community as we each journey through this beautiful life.
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