A warm welcome to you...
My vision and prayer is to support the uplifting of life and consciousness on Earth through helping individuals awaken to their own ability to heal, grow and thrive.
ABOUT ME
I am Phœbe. I am a psychotherapist, breathworker, and psychedelic integration therapist.
I love life. I trust life. The bitterness. The sweetness. I love my friends, my family, my animals, my plants. I love to dance. I love psychedelic music & culture. I love festivals- they are medicine to my soul and tend to my wildness. I love it when I meet new people or have new experiences and they move me so deeply that it feels like a remembering. I love the sunrise. I love coffee & cacao, they are my allies. I love my work. I love the people with whom I am blessed to work. I love stories, both telling them and listening. I love fire, to watch with it, to dance with it. I love the smells that come with different seasons and the memories they carry and evoke.
I feel life and its currents deeply. Sometimes its exquisitely beautiful, Sometimes its very, very hard.
I wouldn't change a thing.
ABOUT MY JOURNEY TO MY WORK
The landscape of my work is a balance of one-to-one sessions with my therapy clients, holding large group breathwork ceremonies, running retreats focused on journeying through dimensions of the psyche and spirit, and guiding on the clinical studies at Imperial College London, using psilocybin to treat chronic pain.
I often feel with my work, I have my fingers in many pies, but truly, it’s one:
Facilitating Healing and Growth through Expanded States of Consciousness
Why?
Well… my journey of healing and growth has been imprinted with a series of peak experiences through breath, through therapy, through the medicines that have shaped and defined my relationship to my self, my past, to others, to earth, to spirit… and so, shaped and defined my future.
I’m a big believer in us each having our medicine, or our gift in this life: often the medicine we have to offer is also the medicine that we receive. I feel blessed to have found my medicine and to have the opportunity to share it, however, the road doesn’t end there. I believe it is my responsibility to uphold my integrity, by continuing to taste mine. The path doesn’t end, rather, new layers unfold, and we learn and we grow- continuously.
And so the medicine I share; is the medicine I feel, connect to, trust in and continue to journey with.
I am deeply grateful for my personal therapist as we move into our 6th year of working together. I am so grateful to the breath, this practise, that has become a pillar in my life, and to all of the opportunities I have to continue to learn, train and dive deeper. I am so grateful to the plant and fungi teachers with whom I study, my spiritual schools, and for the opportunity to deepen those relationships.
It is from this humble position that I share. Not a master. Not a teacher. But rather a companion on the path. It is an honour to walk it with you.
So here I am.
Please do get in touch, I'd love to hear from you.
ABOUT MY WORK
I seek to offer therapy that integrates all of my skills and training, that is grounded in compassion, with a focus on embodiment and considers archetypal, spiritual and transpersonal dimensions of being. My understanding is that just talking about things doesn't ignite change. There is a strong focus of embodiment, the imagination and breath in my sessions. I see these as a gateway to access the inner world and supplement the psychotherapeutic process to enable a deep, experiential processing, understanding and transformation.
Having worked in mental healthcare in both the NHS and private practise I see the need for a radical shift in the way society views and treats mental distress. I am fascinated by altered states of consciousness; how these are perceived and received by society, and how they can be harnessed for healing and expansion of consciousness of both the individual, and the collective, namely the patriarchal paradigm in which we find ourselves. When accessed safely and held within the container of therapy, I see the breath, meditative embodiment practises and psychedelic medicines as an opportunity to access these states, and connect us to own healing intelligence. My fascination and entanglement with and unshakable trust in, altered-states of consciousness, and how these can be harnessed for healing, underpins all of the work I do.
I infuse ceremony, ritual and prayer into all aspects of my work, and endeavour to create both safe and sacred containers to journey. I strongly feel how precious these times on earth are, that within every crisis be that global or personal, is the fertile ground for opportunity. I believe we must endeavour to walk the earth gently, to support each other on this journey of transformation and healing: we need everyone.
I am living and working between Forest Row & London, UK and The Pyrenees in Spain.
You can find links to conferences I have spoken in and my services on the below websites:
https://psychedelic.support/network/phoebe-sullivan-ma/
https://instituteofpsychedelictherapy.org/psychedelic-integration-database/
Qualifications and Experience:
I am registered with HCPC, and am a professional member of the Yoga Alliance, The Psychedelic Support Network and The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy.
Education & Training:
- Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System (BBTRS) In Person Training
- Foundation in Shamanism, Second Sight Healing
- Psychedelic Guide Training, Imperial College London
-Multi-Disciplinary Breathwork Facilitator Training, Samma Karuna School
- Transpersonal Psychology Diploma, Centre of Excellence
- Psycare UK: Psychedelic First Aid Training
-MA Art Psychotherapy (Jungian), University of Roehampton
-Altered States: The Breath, The Yoga Alliance
-Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapists, Psychedelics Today
-BA 1st class Hons. University of Leeds
I have rigorously studied IFS (internal family systems), the transpersonal work of Stanislav Grof, the archetypes and how to work with them in therapy, kundalini energy and the chakras and ancient wisdom teachings from various spiritual traditions.
Specialities:
I am open to work with all people from all walks of life. I have specific interest and experience with people who are with the following:
- Difficult Psychedelic Experiences
- Altered/expanded-states of consciousness
- Spiritual Awakening/ Kundalini Awakening
- Have received a diagnoses of Psychosis or Schizophrenia
- Experiencing Spiritual Emergence or Emergency
- Feeling stuck
- Chronic Pain
- Moving through big transitions/initiations
- People who have experienced trauma or have recieved a diagnoses of PTSD or CPTSD