About Nicky

I believe we are here to remember our true nature and live that remembrance through our humanity.

Spirituality isn't about escaping ordinary life. It's about bringing deeper knowing into the way we love, create, work, choose, receive and experience being human.

Our history shapes us. Our conditioning influences us. We can also carry wounds, protective patterns and parts of ourselves that have been rejected or pushed into shadow.

Spiritual growth doesn't automatically make any of this disappear.

For me, the spiritual path includes bringing these unconscious parts of ourselves into awareness and integrating our humanity, rather than trying to transcend it.

There is more of you available to this life.

Hello, I'm Nicky.

I'm a psychotherapist, coach, healer, author and creator of the Conscious Creation Method®.

For more than three decades I've explored the meeting point between psychology, healing, consciousness and spirituality and one question has remained at the heart of my work:

If our deeper nature is free, why do we so often live as though we aren't?

A Free Mind grew from that enquiry.

Why this work matters to me

My interest in freedom and consciousness isn't purely professional. It has been woven through my own life.

I've experienced loss, fear, uncertainty, marriage breakdown and life as a single parent. My father died from cancer when I was in my twenties, and my first baby required open-heart surgery.

Some of those most difficult periods also brought unexpected experiences of something deeper, moments of profound peace, love and connection that didn't seem dependent upon my circumstances.

They began a much deeper exploration of who and what we really are.

Over the years I've studied psychology, psychotherapy, coaching, healing, consciousness and spirituality, while continuing to explore these questions through my own experience.

I've come to believe that remembering our deeper nature is only part of the spiritual path.

We are still human.

We can experience deep states of peace or connection and still get triggered. We can understand that we are more than our thoughts and still carry shame. We can connect with Soul or Source and still struggle with money, relationships, visibility, receiving, anger or self-worth.

There can be parts of ourselves we've spent a lifetime trying not to be.

I believe these parts belong on the spiritual path too.

For me, shadow integration isn't about endlessly searching ourselves for more things to heal. It's about bringing what has been unconscious into consciousness, meeting what has been rejected or disowned and allowing more of ourselves to become integrated.

This is where psychology and spirituality meet in my work.

Not fixing the human self.

Not trying to escape it.

Remembering what we are while integrating the human being we've become.

And then living from more of our wholeness.

That's the heart of A Free Mind.

My professional background

I've worked in the fields of personal development, psychological wellbeing and holistic health for more than two decades.

Alongside A Free Mind, my experience has included private psychotherapy practice, trauma work with military veterans, workplace stress and trauma support, occupational health and corporate wellbeing, mental-health charity work, coaching and training.

Before moving fully into this field, I also worked in Human Resources and programme management.

This breadth of experience influences the way I work today. I don't approach people solely psychologically or spiritually.

My work sits at the meeting place, psychological understanding, shadow integration, consciousness and spirituality.

Qualifications & Professional Training

First Class BSc (Hons) Psychology of Human Communication

HG.Dip.P. Psychotherapy Diploma (Distinction), Human Givens Institute

Postgraduate Certificate in Personal & Business Coaching, Barefoot Coaching

Mace Energy Method™ Practitioner Training

Divine I AM Transmission Advanced Practitioner — Levels 1 & 2

One Thought 3 Principles Practitioner Programme

Certified SPARK Facilitator

Professional training in Reiki, Hypnosis and Emotional Freedom Technique

Mindfulness Teacher

Professional Member, Human Givens Institute (MHGI)

Author of six books

I have also trained in a range of complementary approaches throughout my career.

Remember what you are. Live who you are.

A Free Mind is where my psychological, spiritual and human understanding comes together.

My work is for people who sense there is more they want from life and are ready to discover what becomes possible when old conditioning no longer gets to make all the decisions.

Free yourself from who you learned to be. Live a life that lights you up.

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