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My mission is to provide consciously crafted, compassionate education for adult learning environments, particularly for women – Helping You Sparkle™ again.
I use my skills, training and decades of public, private and third sector experience to do this in a range of formats, including well-being courses, articles, videos and speaking events.
If you’re here looking for insight and inspiration to help yourself or others, you can find out more about me below.
⚠️ Note to the reader: The content of this website discusses domestic abuse.
I’m a qualified counsellor, trauma-informed educator and author. As a trained facilitator, I have a portfolio of courses and classes I’ve personally written, focused on well-being.
I include in these discussions the impact of trauma and importance of compassion-focused activities and rest rituals. I also highlight causal factors of stress and burnout, including unhealthy workplace and management practices.
I am also accredited to work with victims of crime and have developed my own 12 week course for women who have been subjected to male violence, with a focus on domestic abuse. I am also a trained to deliver the Own My Life course, created by Natalie Collins.
In my ‘spare’ time, I am an independent (unpaid) advisor to policing on this and related topics.
Background
I started my therapeutic career more than two decades ago in bereavement, where my work included supporting people at Coroner’s Court, who had been bereaved by murder and suicide.
Today, I provide a range of well-being courses to help people as I call it ‘find their mojo and get their sparkle back’. I teach an holistic, integrative perspective of well-being, incorporating compassion-focused practices and rest rituals, raising awareness of the impact of loss and trauma.
I am trained in a model of well-being that believes in human potential; that recovery is possible and that people can change their lives for the better (if the conditions are ‘right’).
I include in this work the dimension of spiritual health as a mechanism for healing, recognising how difficulty – and wisdom – can show up in our dreams and sleep. My media appearances include BBC radio and ITV’s ‘Loose Women’. I am the author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal.
About this Website
The content on this website may be of particular interest for women who have navigated difficult life experiences, including domestic abuse. This is following decades of skills, training and experiences of working with, and supporting, a mainly female audience. This doesn’t ignore that men and non-binary people experience difficulty, and in these cases the content may still be useful.
All visitors to this website are encouraged to decide what choices are most healthy for them. I’ve included a list of links that may be useful if you are affected by any of the topics discussed; this website does not intend to replace nor can provide any medical or legal advice. Please read these policies for terms of use.
In an emergency, in the UK call 999 – if you cannot speak you could try pressing 55 and, if possible, please wait for what the operator has to say next. To report a non-urgent incident, you can call the police on 101. You can also call the domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247 or Samaritans who are available 24/7 on 116 123.
How can I help?
My workshops, talks and courses are available to members of the public in Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes and beyond, and cover a range of topics such as self-compassion, meaningful connections and confident communication.
I also deliver trauma-informed and trauma sensitive training on bereavement awareness and workplace well-being. Audiences have included police officers, nurses and paramedics, as well as international, corporate clients. I also take part in speaking engagements and media appearances on my specialist topics.
For more information, ask for details.
Below are ways you can access content that may be useful.
For details of my thoughts and conversations on non-violence, visit my official website or follow me on BlueSky.
Delphi is just the tonic we needed. Someone who knows their subject thoroughly but who is as down to earth as can be. She feels like one of us. Delphi doesn’t bring a lecture. She brings an intimate experience full of respect and understanding. She gives space for all to contribute and demonstrates that she is listening. She has clearly worked with a lot of people who have suffered.
– Frank Mullane, AAFDA (Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse).
Delphi is a qualified counsellor, trauma-informed educator and author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal. Read more.
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Available to Buy
The 4 am Mystery: That’s an actual thing by the way. Even before a global health crisis, people found themselves awake in the middle of the night. Answers In The Dark aims to join the dots between sleep, dreams and our mental health, specifically how grief shows up, even if no one has died.
It explores some of the Big Myths of sleep, offers a Sleep Cycle Repair Kit and tips on how to decode your own dreams. Out now on Amazon and Hive.
#1 Best Seller on Amazon for its category.
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The information provided through this website is open to individual interpretation and may not be suitable for everyone. Links to which content refers are not an endorsement and may only be of interest. All views expressed are the author’s, unless stated otherwise.
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Please speak to your healthcare provider before making any decisions, investments or lifestyle choices about your health, particularly if you are worried about your well-being. If you are struggling with your mental health, call your doctor, or you can ring 111 in the UK. The Samaritans are also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 (UK and ROI) or visit their website .
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