Emotional liberation: the practice of freeing yourself
Something brought you here… and you probably know what it is. Something in you is ready - otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.
The Anxiety that won't stay managed. The Grief that resurfaces years later. Seething Anger.The reaction that feels too big for the moment. You've tried talking about it, thinking your way through it, pushing past it. And still, something underneath remains unmoved.
There's a reason nothing has fully worked. And it has nothing to do with your effort. You were never taught what your emotions are actually for.
We were told they were problems to manage, weaknesses to overcome, inconveniences to push through. But every difficult emotion - the Anger, the Fear, the Shame, the Depression - is carrying information. It is trying to complete something. And when you learn to work with it rather than against it, it becomes medicine rather than poison.
We have all been hurt. Every one of us is recovering from something. It might be what happened in childhood, a wound so old it feels like personality rather than pain. It might be something more recent – a betrayal, a loss, a moment that landed harder than anyone around you understood.
Painful experiences take pieces of us. Innocence. Confidence. The quiet sense that we are fundamentally safe in the world.
But here is what I know to be true, from my own life and from witnessing it again and again in others: we are built to recover. The capacity to heal is not something you have to acquire. It is already in you. It is your birthright. Emotional Liberation® is the method I use to help you access it.
Emotional Liberation is not a concept. It is a method – one that the research is catching up to.
The ACE study established a direct link between unresolved emotional experience and long-term physical and mental health outcomes. What doesn’t get processed doesn’t disappear. It reorganises. A 2023 meta-analysis of 61 randomised controlled trials found that practices integrating intentional movement with inner awareness consistently reduce difficult emotional states across diverse populations, pointing toward the body as the missing piece in most conventional treatment.
The neuroscience of trauma confirms what this method has always held: that patterns don’t live in the mind alone. They live in the nervous system, in the tissues, in the body’s learned responses to threat and overwhelm. Talking about them is rarely enough.
But the evidence base is only part of the picture. Emotional Liberation draws equally on yogic science and esoteric teachings and practices that have understood the architecture of human suffering and healing for thousands of years. The chakras, the nadis, the energetic body. Systems of inner knowledge that predate the randomized controlled trial by millennia, and that point toward the same truths the research is now beginning to confirm.
My role is to hold both: the peer-reviewed and the ancient, and bring them to bear on the very specific, very human experience of the person in front of me.
Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders
Trauma, Stress, and Mental Health Outcomes
Trauma and chronic stress alter amygdala and hippocampal function, impairing emotional regulation and threat discrimination.
A review of how trauma and chronic stress cause lasting mental health harm through biological pathways including HPA axis dysregulation, brain changes, epigenetic modifications, and immune activation — with outcomes shaped by social support, resilience, and access to care.
Psilocybin enhances cued fear extinction and extinction recall in stress-naive, acutely stressed, and chronically stressed subjects
Psilocybin enhanced the brain’s ability to unlearn fear responses across stress-naive, acutely stressed, and chronically stressed conditions, suggesting it may support fear processing even in individuals with trauma or chronic stress histories.
A preclinical study tested psilocybin's effect on fear extinction across three stress conditions in mice: no stress, acute stress (a PTSD model), and chronic stress. Psilocybin enhanced fear extinction and extinction recall across all conditions, suggesting its potential to help the brain unlearn fear responses even under chronic or traumatic stress -- with direct relevance to PTSD and anxiety treatment.
Investigating the safety and tolerability of single-dose psilocybin for post-traumatic stress disorder: A nonrandomized open-label clinical trial
Single 25mg dose well tolerated, rapid and durable improvement in PTSD symptoms out to 12 weeks. No serious adverse events.
Psilocybin at a dose of 25 mg, administered with psychological support, may be safe, well-tolerated and associated with symptomatic improvement in adults with PTSD.
Incannex Reports Positive Results from Phase 2 Clinical Trial of PSX-001 (Psi-GAD) for Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
73 participants, randomized double-blind placebo-controlled. Statistically significant improvements across all primary and secondary endpoints. No serious adverse events.
A Phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 73 adults with moderate to severe generalised anxiety disorder found that psilocybin-assisted therapy (PSX-001) delivered statistically significant improvements across every key endpoint, including anxiety, mood, disability, and quality of life — positioning it as a leading psilocybin therapy in development for GAD.
The efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions for prolonged grief disorder: A systematic review
A systematic review of 30 RCTs found that psychotherapeutic interventions for prolonged grief disorder produce meaningful improvements, with experiential approaches combining exposure, EMDR, and mindfulness showing particular promise for trauma-related grief — pointing toward the need for personalized, body-inclusive treatment models
A systematic review of 30 randomized controlled trials (2011-2024) examining treatments for Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) -- a newly recognized diagnosis in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR affecting between 9.8% and 34.3% of bereaved people. CBT emerged as the most effective and versatile approach. Innovations combining CBT with mindfulness, exposure therapy, or EMDR showed particular promise for trauma-related grief. Alternative interventions including music therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy showed potential but require further research. The authors note limited generalizability due to predominantly white, female, high-income study samples.
These are real reflections written from inside the work, on the emotions that arrive uninvited and refuse to be tidy. On what happens when you stop managing your emotions and start meeting them. I write the way I work: directly, honestly, and from someone who has lived through her own version of everything you’re reading about.
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People come to this work from everywhere, from London flats and Canadian farmhouses, from corporate burnout and spiritual crisis, from first ceremonies and tenth sessions. Some choose to be on camera. Some don’t. But every one of them has something truthful to say about what happened when they stopped managing and started liberating.
“This course gives you the tools that talk therapy doesn't give you.”
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USA
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USA
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USA
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Sergey
USA
“"This idea of welcoming in things that I fear was one of the deepest experiences I've ever had."”
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“For people who want to go deep, this is the work to be had.”
Linda S.
USA
“I was able to peel back layers of protective responses to get to my core wound of abandonment – a pain I’ve carried my entire life – so I could address and release it.”
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USA
“I could really start to feel good in my own skin.”
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USA
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
— Carl Jung
When You're Ready
There’s no pressure and no timeline. Healing doesn’t work on a schedule, and neither do I. When something here has landed, when you feel that pull toward going deeper, these are the ways to begin: A complimentary Elevation Ceremony. A personal session. A Masterclass course. An immersive retreat (in Portugal where I live!). Multiple doors, one invitation: come as you are.
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Yes. Emotional Liberation work can generally be practiced alongside prescribed medication. It works through emotional processing, awareness, and nervous-system regulation rather than through medication itself. If you take prescription medication, continue following your prescriber’s guidance and let them know you’re incorporating this kind of work.
How long does it take to regulate the nervous system?+
Significant improvements in baseline regulation are typically noticeable within 8–12 weeks of consistent practice. More deeply established dysregulation takes longer, but change is always possible given the right conditions.
I understand my emotions intellectually. Why can’t I seem to change them?+
Because understanding and feeling are two different things – and healing happens at the level of feeling.
The nervous system runs its patterns independently of what the thinking mind knows. You can have complete insight into why you react a certain way and still find the same reactions arising. That’s not a failure of intelligence, it’s a description of how the nervous system works. That’s why the Emotional Liberation work engages the nervous system directly – through movement, breath, sound, and psycho-spiritual inquiry.
If you’re wondering whether this work is a good fit for you, the best next step is a complimentary Discovery Session. You’ll complete a client intake form first, then we’ll meet on Zoom to explore what’s possible.
How long before I notice a difference?+
Many people feel a significant shift early in the work, a quality of stillness, relief, or release they may not have experienced before. But the work is not only about feeling better in the moment. It also involves developing a clearer cognitive understanding of your emotions: what you are feeling, where it comes from, how it affects your nervous system, and the patterns that keep it in place.
Over time, with consistent practice, that understanding becomes more embodied. Eleven minutes a day is enough to begin building new neural pathways and training the nervous system to respond differently. The practice builds on itself. What starts as relief in a session can gradually become greater awareness of your emotional patterns, more choice in how you respond, and a different way of moving through your life.
What if difficult emotions arise when I microdose?+
That is often exactly what the medicine is doing. Difficult emotions surface because they are ready to move. The Emotional Liberation framework provides the tools to meet and work with what arises rather than be overwhelmed by it. This is why microdosing is always embedded in a guided, structured process in my work, not offered as a standalone practice. You go in prepared, and you do not navigate what comes up alone.
How does microdosing fit into your Emotional Liberation work?+
Microdosing is a tool within a larger method, not the method itself. Emotional Liberation® provides the framework: the cognitive education, the psycho-spiritual inquiry, the expressive movement, and practices that allow difficult emotions to be processed and released. The microdose, when included, amplifies access to that process. It can help people who are genuinely stuck in the thinking mind find a doorway through.
If this resonates for you and you’re wondering whether working with me is a good fit, the best next step is a Discovery Session. You’ll complete a client intake form first, then we’ll meet on Zoom to explore what’s possible.
Is microdosing right for everyone?+
No, and I say that as a clinician. Everyone’s body responds differently. Some people find microdosing transformative. Others find it neutral or unhelpful.
Emotions can often surface, Anxiety included. That’s the material that’s been waiting to come up and be met, and it’s part of the work we do together.
Plant medicine is always optional in my work and never a requirement.
Why do I keep reacting the same way even when I know better?+
Because knowing isn’t the same as healing. The subconscious runs its patterns independently of what the thinking mind understands. You can have complete intellectual insight into why you react a certain way and still find yourself repeating the behavior.
This is exactly why the Emotional Liberation work operates at the experiential level, not just the cognitive one. Understanding the pattern is the first step. Releasing it from where it actually lives is what creates lasting change.
And if you’re wondering whether working with me is a good fit for you, the best next step is a complimentary Discovery Session. You’ll complete a client intake form first, then we’ll meet on Zoom to explore what’s possible.
I’ve tried therapy, self-help, everything. Why would this be different?+
Because most approaches work at the level of the mind. They help you understand your patterns, reframe your thinking, develop insight. And that’s valuable. But understanding alone rarely changes the deep emotional patterns that drive behavior, especially under stress.
Emotional Liberation is a method that works where those patterns live: in your body, your nervous system, and the emotional memory that formed before you had words for it. Change at that level isn’t just something you understand. You feel it, and it holds when life gets stressful. It shows up in how you react, how you relate to others, and how you treat yourself.
That’s what’s possible and it starts with a single conversation.
If you’re wondering whether working with me is a good fit for you, the best next step is a complimentary Discovery Session. You’ll complete a client intake form first, then we’ll meet on Zoom to explore what’s possible.
How long does emotional healing take?+
It depends on what you’re healing from and how long it’s been running. Some people feel significant shifts early in the work, something opens that’s been closed for years. For others, particularly those healing from early trauma or long-held patterns of Shame or Depression, the work is slower and more layered.
What I can tell you is that healing is not linear. And the capacity for change doesn’t have an expiration date. Emotional fluency is a skill. It builds with practice, patience, and the right support. Trust the process and trust yourself.