“I recently had the privilege of attending a women’s retreat led by Ellen and I can confidently say it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life. From the moment I arrived, the atmosphere was one of profound calm and intentional care. Ellen's expertise as both an organizer and a therapist is evident in every detail of the program. Her facilitation of breathwork sessions was particularly powerful, creating a safe space for deep release, while her guidance through family constellations opened doors to understanding that had been closed for years. Ellen is a master at holding and directing the group along with her experienced facilitators and body workers. She is the element that made this retreat so worthwhile.

My goal was to expand my relational field. Through the group, I saw my conditioning clearly and now feel ready for a more authentic connection with myself and others. The daily schedule was beautifully balanced, weaving together meditation, general nature walks, and restorative massage. Ellens intuitive approach ensure that each activity flowed seamlessly into the next, allowing for a true sense of renewal. The accommodations were comfortable and serene, providing the perfect environment to disconnect from the outside world.

Perhaps just as impressive as the therapy and workshops was the attention to the finer details of the retreat experience. The food was delicious, wholesome, and lovingly prepared and the overall ambience was one of pure hospitality. While the cost might seem significant at first glance, the value provided in terms of personal growth, healing, and quality of experience makes it absolutely worth every penny. If you are seeking a space for rest, renewal, and deep inner work, this retreat is an unmissable opportunity.”

“The Solas and Vaev couples intensive process my partner and I attended with Ellen allowed us to make some really meaningful breakthroughs, and have whetted our appetites for what can be possible and we are keen to continue this work.

The experience was unencumbered by any feeling of anxiety defence or resistance, and I suspect that was largely down to Ellen’s therapeutic guidance and the process she has created.

From my side the experience felt like a deeply meaningful, profound and supercharged therapy session, achieving a level of insight and understanding of each other that we have never had before, and for that I’m profoundly grateful.”

-H. Architect

“ I've been working with Ellen for several years—both individually and with my husband as a couple—and I'm just so grateful to have found her. Her incredible intuition and wisdom have helped us get to the heart of things without ever feeling confrontational. She's warm, funny, authentic, and so deeply caring. Whether gently guiding me through sensitive issues or supporting my husband and me together, she creates the safest, most supportive space. Her professional skill combined with genuine compassion is truly rare. I'm so grateful for everything she's done for us! “

-L, Mid-Life Transitioner

“ Ellen guided me through my Intensive transformational  coaching retreat  in London with such grace, steadiness, and care. She held the space beautifully — almost magically — allowing me to feel completely safe as I moved through some profound breakthroughs. I’m deeply grateful for her presence, intuition, and quiet strength throughout the experience. I truly hope to work with her again, and I’m so excited for her new practice. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with Ellen is in for something truly special.”

-AK, Doctor, New York

“ I feel very fortunate to have worked with Ellen. I came to her while exploring different therapeutic approaches for C-PTSD. From our very first session, I felt a level of safety and trust that allowed me to fully engage in the work. Her gentle, caring way of holding space created an environment where I felt deeply supported during the work. Ellen has a timeless quality about her, bringing youthful curiosity and seasoned wisdom to her work at once; a calm presence, soft voice, and grounded demeanour that immediately put me at ease. She gained my trust readily, which for me was no small thing. Over several sessions, she guided me with sensitivity, skill, and intuition, always attuned to my pace and capacity. I felt seen, heard, and respected throughout.

The impact of our work together has been profound. I can genuinely feel the difference; issues that once triggered me, no longer hold the same charge. I can move through life with greater steadiness and ease. Ellen came highly recommended to me by a friend, and I have since recommended her to others, including for individual, family, and couples therapy. I do so with complete confidence in her professionalism, warmth, and integrity. Working with Ellen has been a deeply healing and transformative experience, and I am truly grateful for the care and wisdom she brings to her practice.”

-Nicole, Doctor

“ Ellen provided me a very safe and loving container for me to explore both my inner landscape and the realm of collective consciousness. With her gentle yet very precise guidance, I got to know both my dark and bright parts intimately, and was able to embrace myself in multitude in a way that I never imagined before I met her. Ellen also helped my husband to open up spiritually (even though he may not see it that way!) and the couple therapy work that we had with Ellen opened the path for our healing as a family. I know that there will be no end to my road of self-discovery and healing, but I feel like I am now much better resourced and equipped to navigate any challenges in my life and to appreciate all the beauties around me”.

-Ali

“ Ellen is like a fairy godmother, firm but kind, who can help light the way and hold your hand as you walk into some of the more shadowy corners of your being. It's strong and courageous work, and I take my hat off to anyone who undertakes this kind of healing... and they'd be very blessed to have Ellen's deeply compassionate and tenacious support along the way. I value her integrity and depth and feel so fortunate to have worked with her.”

-J, Mother

“ Working with Ellen through a guided intensive couples session was the most meaningful and personally transformational therapeutic experience I’ve ever had. From previous therapy and coaching, I’d known I’d carried some unhelpful patterns and scripts that were no longer serving me. But I struggled to move past self-awareness to any sort of shift. I felt stuck – knowingly repeating old patterns, seeing how these affected both myself and those around me, but somehow not being able to break them.

I didn’t really know what to expect, but the journey with Ellen was not what I expected! I journeyed together with my partner, and Ellen guided us through a constant flow of communication but at the same time letting us chart our own paths. It’s hard to find the words, but it felt like a kind of weave, with Ellen gently holding the threads, allowing them to flow but not letting them stray or become too tangled.

In my own journey, I was able to follow threads of my story back to experiences I had long buried, simplified or not even realised were still there. I could see that the linear logic I had applied to the past was one perspective among many. And I was able to situate experiences in a much wider context - within intergenerational family patterns, within broader social experiences.

Seeing with such clarity that deeply formative experiences were neither fixed, nor products of “me” alone, has allowed me to loosen the meaning I had placed on them. I can see now that the rigid picture I had built around the past, and from which I’ve extrapolated so many beliefs about myself and others, is incomplete, complex, mysterious. And that realisation has cracked open a new sense of possibility in how I relate to those experiences, and in how much authority I allow them to hold in shaping my present and future. The past now feels less definitive, the future feels unshackled by the meanings I had drawn from it.

The best way I can think to put it is – I feel now, like I’ve spent my life on a life raft I built early on, making it incrementally safer, and nicer, over the years. I’ve felt a fear of the water, but long forgotten why; just knowing it’s dark, and cold, and knowing that my life boat kept me above water, even as it started to show the cracks, even as I had started to realise it was getting too small, that others couldn’t fit on with me.

My journey with Ellen allowed me to get into the water. I understand, now, that there are parts that are indeed dark, icy, turbulent. But that it’s also a wide ocean, vast, mysterious, joyful and exhilarating, with other boats, and other swimmers, all sorts of creatures, good and bad. I’m so full of gratitude to have this opened up to me, knowing now how to get in and swim.”

-A

“Ellen is an exceptionally skilled and thoughtful therapist. Her approach is both therapeutically sophisticated and deeply human—she combines sharp insight with genuine warmth in a way that makes you feel truly supported while also being challenged to do meaningful work.

What stands out most is her ability to facilitate real breakthroughs, not just insight for its own sake. She has a rare talent for helping clients stay committed through the difficult parts of the process, which is where the most lasting change happens.

If you are looking for someone who is both highly capable and deeply caring, Ellen creates the kind of therapeutic environment where real transformation is possible.”

-Chris

“Ellen has helped me to acquire a unique insight and understanding of “my self”, in all its complexity and simplicity. I am more and more at ease with the difficulties, contradictions and challenges of being who I am; learning to emotionally and somatically integrate what used to frighten and numb me. Ellen and her abilities always make me feel safe, continue to encourage me to be curious, to expand and to reframe. And have gifted me with moments of feeling deeply and lovingly connected to the human condition, with its hardships and wonders.”

-A

“Ellen works with the utmost integrity. She held space for our couples intensive with such care and steadiness, creating an environment that felt both safe and deeply supportive. She is kind, insightful, honest, and highly relational, always ensuring that we both felt seen, heard and secure throughout the process.

Her style is naturally curious, and her interventions were thoughtful, timely, and delivered with great sensitivity. The session remained clearly focused on strengthening our relationship, while she also helped us understand ourselves and each other more fully within it.

She guided us to see what truly matters and showed us how to love each other more honestly, while feeling safe enough to express our needs openly and authentically to each other.

I would highly recommend Ellen. She brings an incredible presence, clarity, and commitment to this work.”

-J

"If you get to work with Ellen, you've found a very special gem. Her presence and attention alone are a remedy. It'll be work but she won't leave you alone with it, she'll make it human and relatable and loving, and you'll get to feel that way too."

-N

“ Ellen is the kind of therapist people hope exists but rarely find. With rare intelligence, deep wisdom, and an almost magical sense of safety, she can gently navigate the most complex trauma and difficult moments without ever losing warmth or clarity. In her presence, you feel truly heard and profoundly seen—not rushed, not minimized, not alone. She meets pain with care and transforms it into understanding, making healing feel possible, even when it once felt out of reach.”

-J

“Over my many years I have experienced therapy at some difficult times in my life. I can say without any hesitation that Ellen is the best therapist that I have ever experienced and that she would a wonderful asset to whoever she works with.”

-T

“Ellen helped create a safe space that allowed me to deeply explore my inner world.”

-M, Engineer

"I have attended three retreats with Ellen and have done some individual work with her also. I can't recommend her highly enough. She is very knowledgeable , seeming to know what is needed before you do. She has the ability to be incredibly present and holding - I felt very safe with her."

-Ana - IFS therapist, supervisor and consultant 

“My husband and I worked with Ellen when we needed support to deal with a difficult medical diagnosis. Her approach and compassion were really transformative for us. We would strongly recommend anyone looking to explore issues more deeply to connect with Ellen and benefit from her process.”

-Sarah LM, Strategy Director

“ I have worked with Ellen for a few years now and she is the most wonderful therapist. Just being in her presence makes me feel calmer. She can move fluidly between the esoteric and the grounded. Her western, IFS psychotherapy training is there as an underpinning and provides a more analytic reassurance, should it be needed. But it is her connection to the spiritual and the transcendent that feels most transformational and which allows me to connect to my inner selves, as well as to a higher self or collective unconscious.  However you want to envision it, or call it, she will welcome your exploration and your way of engaging and being.”

-S, psychotherapist and writer