THE THERAPUETIC BIT
Aimee is a certified counsellor and ACCPH fellow and supervisor. Known for her truly holistic approach to healing and wellbeing - expertly weaving modern science and psychology with ancient wisdom and a transpersonal touch - she specialises therapeutically in somatics and trauma (in all its forms and guises) having studied with some of the most respected and pioneering trauma and somatic specialists in the world including Bessel Van Der Kolk, Steven Porges, Gabor Mate, Arielle Schwarz, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Dan Siegal, Richard Schwarz, and Eric Gentry of The Arizona Trauma Institute and more.
After more than 15 years in the field and the last decade dedicated predominantly to the therapeutic aspect of her work, Aimee´s schedule is no longer open to the general public for counselling and psychotherapeutic work. She is currently in a period of retreat and her focus going forward will be on quietly mentoring those with a desire to deepen spiritually and on offering retreat, pilgrimage and support to integrate significant spiritual and psychedelic experience. Priority is given to long term students and those who train through her flourishing school and its growing community.
To learn more about her award winning Trauma Informed Somatic Counselling Training and other offers from the school including our upcoming Psychedelic Support Specialist certificate training, click below.
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"if you get the chance to learn from this woman, take it.
she will change your life"
lena, Sweden
THE SPIRITUAL STUFF
Aimee is fortunate to receive support, teaching and guidance from a remarkable mandala of personal mentors including, Rob Preece (The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra & the Essence of Tantra), Dr Miles Neale (Gradual Awakening - The Tibetan Buddhist Path to Becoming Fully Human) & Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy, Geshe Tenzin Zopa (Unmistaken Child), Zeenat Cameron (Shakta Tradition of Sri Vidya), Anna Murray Preece (Movement/Rhythmic Healing), and Lorin Roche (The Radiance Sutras).
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Trained in multiple systems and traditions of movement, meditation and traditional tantra, Aimee is a passionate disciple of The Great Mother and her lessor known path towards a life that is truly alive. Her ongoing interest is in nurturing a natural way towards awakening in others and supporting them to deepen their practice as a means of paying forward and sharing the wisdom of her teachers.
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Aimee is an advocate of the real raw spiritual journey, the kind that forms deep roots in our day to day lives and invites soulful descent, not lofty transcendence. She is not one for spiritual pleasantries or bypass, but one to help her students journey in to the grit, grace, joy and beauty of their unique human experience and personal path.
With a deep connection to the Black Madonna, a rekindled relationship with Tantric Jesus (post a traumatic Christian childhood), a love affair with the principles of alchemy, a deep history with ancient Egypt, an old connection with Sikhism, and a bit of a witchy spirit, Aimee holds sincere reverence for all paths and is delighted to work with people from any tradition or religion - although notes that her knowledge and understanding of other traditions will naturally be limited.
A NOTE FROM AIMEE
"After more than 20 years of active healing, seeking, searching, path, practice, and study, I have become interested in a natural way - in the idea that we each have a path that is uniquely ours - that we have left breadcrumbs for ourselves in this labyrinth of life. Whether we are meant to be finding our way in or out of that labyrinth is anyone's best guess - and all part of the divine play we chose. This idea aligns very much with Daoist philosophy and the original spirit of Tantra. I am uninterested in dogmatic spirituality and pathological wellness. I have lived both plenty, confusing depth of commitment with adherence to systems and ideals. They are nothing but a prison.
In connection with this principle, I believe that we find ourselves incarnated at a time in human history in which we are being called to foster a new Way. A Way that doesn't commercialise, rob, rape or mindlessly appropriate teachings - but equally - one that does allow for evolution, integration and ultimately a synthesis of the worldly wisdoms to be gradually formed - without causing or requiring them to lose their individual identity. This requires immense courage and enormous discernment.
I feel that we are at the embryonic stage of moving beyond religious dogmas and the constrictive structures of systemised spirituality, but that we must also be cautious not to dismiss the wisdom transmitted by religions, nor to get tangled in a messy form of modern pick and mix that takes us slowly nowhere.
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Many of us feel deeply spiritual and hold a sincere interest in The Path, but have had little or no opportunity to receive teaching beyond what is presented through the commercial paradigm.
Equally others of us who have immersed ourselves in the traditions and had the privilege of learning from them, frequently find that for all the wisdom and wonder they offer us, practice can feel dry, become frigid and fruitless over time, or feel somewhat divorced from our lives as modern practitioners - like there´s a missing piece or that something isn't quite coming together.
The original spirit of the tantric movement - before it was overtly monasticised and systematised, reflected in profound texts such as The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra - has much to teach us about how rich and vibrant a truly iconoclastic relationship with Spirt can be. But dancing the dance between tradition and discipline, and devotion and instinct, requires much discernment.
During these intense times of necessary collapse and creation I am interested in supporting others to dance this dance - to learn from the treasure trove of tradition whilst simultaneously discovering and fostering their own inner Way - the only real Way.
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"I am interested in reattuning to an innately Feminine wisdom that has been long forgotten within almost all of the living religious traditions - however profound their systems may be.
She, the Mother of Creation, the Womb of Eternity is wild, fierce, compassionate, empty, and immediate. She has taught me through addiction, trauma, isolation, motherhood, madness and illness - as well as through nature, friendship, love, sex, affluence, and ecstasy, books, booze, music, mushrooms, movement, movies and more hours of intentional and accidental, formal and formless meditation than I can count. She has taught me as much if not more, in the holy mess of my own very average home, as she has at sacred sites and tantric temples on the other side of the world. She is ever present in all things - there is no separation between Heaven, Hell and Earth in Her.
She is as intense as She is gentle. Her touch is as violent as it is tender - always using the necessary means and medicine to liberate us most swiftly. She is the toughest teacher and the quietest companion. She is known by 1000 forms, faces and names, and in her infinite kindness, she will let you come to Her through any one you wish. She is never not with you, for She is you. She is the the sanctuary of wild serene that is the Heart of life. She is Home. And She has a radical type of freedom to offer all those brave enough to seek Her."
To connect with Aimee you can enquire about the possibility of one to one (though please note her schedule is largely full at this time and she is spending a large portion of time in retreat this year) and look out for opportunities to retreat or pilgrimage with her from 2027 onwards.
