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⚠️ Content on this page covers topics including suicide and domestic abuse.

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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 offer insights in a range of formats, including 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.

I am the creator of The She Course: Healing for Her™ and founder of If We Act™: a pacifist website and movement promoting courageous conversations, connected communities and compassionate action.

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I started my therapeutic career more than two decades ago, working with the bereaved, including supporting people at Coroner’s Court.

Today, I talk about the impact of trauma, and the importance of self-compassion focused activities and rest rituals. I also highlight causal factors of stress and burnout, including unhealthy workplace culture and shallow wellness practices.

I am trained in a philosophy of well-being that believes in human potential, and teach based on a model that promotes safety and choice.

As an integrative and trauma-informed educator, I focus on a holistic view of well-being. 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 also the author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal.

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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.

I have developed my own 12-week course: ‘The She Course: Healing for Her™”, for women who have been subjected to male violence, with a focus on domestic abuse. I am also a trained facilitator for the Own My Life course, created by Natalie Collins. I am accredited to support and have worked with victims of crime, including those escaping domestic abuse. In my spare time volunteer as an independent advisor to policing (unpaid, by choice), discussing these and related topics.

My approach to these conversations leans on different types of feminist theory, influenced by writers like bell hooks, Starhawk and Andrea Dworkin.

I am also the founder of If We Act, a pacifist movement that promotes upstandership, community cohesion, compassionate action and professional curiosity, while challenging unhelpful myths, harmful narratives and offering food for thought to create meaningful change.

Services

Book(s)

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I am the author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal. The book aims to join the dots between our 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 some tips on how to decode your own dreams.

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Qualifications and Training

My qualifications are in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB), Delivering Adult Learning (City & Guilds) and Management & Leadership (CMI).

Additional training includes trauma informed practice, and time spent with the National Homicide Service, Victim Support and Women’s Aid.

I am also authentically trained in mindfulness, advocating Buddhist philosophy as one option for managing a busy mind, while working in a trauma-sensitive way.

I ensure I engage with continuing professional development throughout the year.

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).

“With Delphi’s help, I have a new perspective on life and the strength to face new and challenging things in a positive way.” B.

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Charity Work

I offer my time in a number of ways to services in the public and third sector. This includes volunteering for a local emergency response team, providing emotional support in the event of a major incident and has included rescues from human slavery.

I also volunteer my time supporting policing as an independent (unpaid) advisor, informed by my work, particularly with those bereaved by domestic abuse and male violence. The national domestic abuse helpline in the U.K. is 0808 2000 247.

In my spare time, I work for a charity that provides an award winning transport service for patients with cancer, travelling to hospital for their treatment.

TV and Media Appearances

I have enjoyed many TV and media appearances talking passionately about the subjects I cover, including healthy sleep and dreams. Media Appearances include:

Radio

BBC Radio: BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, BBC WM, BBC Hereford and Worcester , BBC Coventry, BBC Three Counties, BBC Radio 6 with George Lamb, BBC Suffolk Breakfast Show, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drive Time, BBC Radio Leeds Drive Time, BBC Tees, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, BBC London with Sunny & Shay and on the Eddie Nestor show, Talk Sport, Beacon Radio, Hallam FM, Original 106 FM, Gemini FM, WLR FM, XFM, The Psychic Show (LBC 97.3), My Spirit Radio, Bridge Radio, Red FM, Talk Radio(Europe)Listen to Delphi on BBC1Xtra

Television

Loose Women, ITV’s This Morning, DayBreak (Presenter of The Guide to Sleep), , GMTV, The Wright Stuff, LK Today (Lorraine), Consultant to SO Television for My Lovely Audience (Graham Norton), Psychic TV

Featured work

Daily Mail, Natural Health, In Style Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Dance Magazine, Daily Express, Daily Star, Practical Parenting & Pregnancy Magazine, Soul & Spirit magazine, Huffington Post, Guardian (G2), Sunday Express, Pregnancy, Baby & You, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Pregnancy & Birth magazine, Prima Baby magazine, Practical Parenting, Columnist for Spirit & Destiny Magazine, Contributor to Talk Mum, Contributor to Silent Voices, Columnist for Spirit Force Magazine, Mens Health magazine

PR Events

I have worked with several companies to promote products related to my specialist areas. These have included: Dreams Bed Company, Maybelline New York, Sky + HD (article featured in Daily Telegraph), Johnson’s Beauty: Dreamy Skin, Snow Leopard Trust

Peer Support

In 2004, I established a unique website and ran peer support group for two years dedicated to Pregnancy Mental Health, following my own experiences. As a result, I featured in several popular magazines on this topic, including Pregnancy and Birth and Natural Health magazines, and featured on radio programmes like Radio 4’s Women’s Hour. (You can see a full list of tv and media appearances above).

Later, I led a peer mentoring service for three years with a well-known mental health charity, offering relevant training to volunteers and helping establish the goals of those using the service.

During the pandemic I also ran a bereavement peer support group in my spare time, for grieving people and set up an account called ‘A Grief Note™’ offering people insights.

Awards

“Women Who Keep Bedfordshire Safer” – Winner
Volunteer of the Year Cohesion Award – Services to the Community
“Women Who Keep Bedfordshire Safer” – Nomination
Health and Social Care Awards for Mental Health & Wellbeing (Regional Finalist)
Spiritual Connextions Awards for Service to Others – Winner

Monday Mojo™

I was the creator of Monday Mojo™ – an email sent to inboxes since 2017, containing insight, intention and inspiration. This is currently unavailable from 2025.