About me
My path into this work began in medicine. I trained as a doctor and spent fifteen years working in the NHS — a vocation I had felt drawn to since childhood. Over time, though, I found myself longing for something the medical model couldn't quite offer: a way of understanding health, suffering, and the body that went deeper than diagnosis and treatment. That longing sent me on a long personal journey — through my own therapy, meditation and non-ordinary states of consciousness, shamanic training and initiation, and eventually into professional training in psychotherapeutic counselling, somatic psychotherapy, and parts work (IFS).
That journey is now more than twenty years old, and it's still continuing. I don't think it ever really stops.
The way I work is integrative and unhurried. I draw on talking and depth psychotherapy, somatic and polyvagal approaches, mindfulness, reprocessing, ritual, and dreamwork — weaving these together in response to what each person and moment seems to need, rather than following a fixed method. Having spent so many years in medicine before coming to therapy, I find myself particularly drawn to the territory where body and psyche meet: chronic pain, unexplained physical symptoms, illness, and the profound experiences of facing serious disease or the end of life. I've been privileged to sit with many people navigating these landscapes, and I continue to find them among the most meaningful and illuminating spaces to work in.
Outside of individual work, I care deeply about groups and community. I have been facilitating workshops for many years, and I run a men's group that explores masculinity through an archetypal and mythopoetic lens. When I'm not working, you'll most likely find me in nature — walking, on pilgrimage, or at a festival somewhere, dancing.
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Charlie Sayer