My name is Delphi. I’m a qualified counsellor and trauma-informed educator.
⚠️Note to the reader, this website discusses violence and domestic abuse.
How Can I Help?
My mission is to provide consciously crafted, compassionate education for adult learning environments, particularly for women. 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.
I also volunteer my time to raise awareness of a cause close to my heart, having spoken, worked with and supported women subjected to, and families bereaved by, male violence, including domestic abuse. You can read more about this here.
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).
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Featured Work
I have featured in several articles including for Glamour and In Style magazines, and have several media appearances on my specialist topics, including dreams. 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.
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.
Spirituality
My work is influenced by humanistic thinkers like Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and others of their era, alongside Buddhist philosophy and researched insights on spiritual intelligence. This creates dialogue about recognising the value of meaning, authenticity, self-awareness, spirituality, compassionate social action and self-transcendence as keys to well-being; not only can we achieve what Maslow described (in Toward a Psychology of Being) as “full-humanness”, but recognise that our potential is limitless.
As I describe in Answers In The Dark, I was raised in a spiritualist household where we talked about dreams around the breakfast table, so it’s been natural for me to include and welcome these discussions in my professional life. I value the teachings and philosophy of the Buddha and appreciate the pacifist values held by Quakers. I also have an interest in feminist theology (thealogy).
I am also a Non‑Denominational Ministerial (Spiritual) Coach in adult education, dedicated to helping people, especially women, make holistic decisions and gain clarity through purpose. I work with what I refer to as the Circle of Wellness, and as such include spiritual health in these discussions, recognising how all of these areas are interconnected. As detailed above, I have also worked with people’s dreams for more than 20 years.
My teaching blends spiritual guidance with coaching techniques, helping individuals grow personally, spiritually and professionally, by aligning values, transforming challenges, and fulfilling their potential. This is distinct from therapy, by focusing on present/future growth, rather than past issues.
In the context of my work, I centre non‑violence principles, teaching compassionate communication and respecting personal agency, without relying on religious doctrine, though discussions about sacred texts are welcome.
I strive to provide safe, supportive spaces where women can feel empowered and navigate life’s transitions with confidence and authenticity. In a world which is so externally focused, I aim to help people be their own inner authority and tap into inner wisdom, balancing reason with intuition. I am guided by feminist theory that champions equity and the dismantling of limiting narratives.
Through reflective dialogue and holistic practices, I draw on diverse spiritual wisdom, contemporary ethical frameworks, and lived human experience to help women cultivate meaning, purpose and sovereignty.
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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If you’re struggling please reach out to your healthcare team, or if based in the UK you might also try the NHS on 111, or Samaritans on 116 123.
Out Now
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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