About

My work lives at the meeting point of self-exploration and relational depth, supporting both women and couples to live and love with greater truth.

I’m Gaia - a relational coach, women’s empowerment facilitator and transformational group work practitioner based in Devon, UK.

I support women and couples through deep inner work, somatic embodiment and relational healing.

At the heart of my work is a fascination with our human experience — the ways we relate to ourselves, our bodies, each other, and the world around us.

My journey into this work began, as many do, through personal upheaval and the longing for more honest relationships with myself and others.

Learning to be with my own difficult emotions became a profound training ground, ultimately shaping the tools and pathways I now use with clients.

What I’ve discovered is that transformation is both inward and outward: an inner softening into self-awareness, and an outward expansion into authenticity, connection and purpose.

My Approach

My practice is interdisciplinary and responsive — integrating emotional, psychological, somatic and spiritual tools.

I draw from:

  • Self-inquiry: inner child work, meditation, group inquiry

  • Somatic embodiment: conscious dance, somatic inquiry, emotional release

  • Relational Life Therapy (RLT): a practical, skills-based approach to relational repair

  • Ritual and meaning-making: seasonal cycles, threshold ceremonies, archetypal work

I am deeply influenced by the work of Terry Real, Elle Rosenthall, Kashia Urbaniak, Caroline Elliott, and Christian de Sousa.

In 2020 I moved to Devon and co-founded True Nature, a platform for feminine and ecological empowerment. Alongside my collaborator Alana Bloom, we created a series of Wild Woman retreats and events, including EMPOWER my flagship 9 month Facilitation Training (now taking a break for 2026)

In 2022 I trained in Relational Life Therapy, which has since become a foundational part of my work with couples and individuals.

I continue to lead conscious dance events across the UK and collaborate with organisations such as Ecstatic Dance UK, Medicine Festival, Rave Ritual, Morning Gloryville and others.

Background

I began my professional life in immersive theatre - crafting worlds where people could transform out of who they were in their everyday lives to explore different versions of themselves.

This love of transformation led me into Buddhist practice, the conscious dance world, Celtic ritual traditions, neo-tantra, and eventually into the broader field of group facilitation and coaching.

From 2016–2020 I worked with The Psychedelic Society, developing their London events programme and opening a dedicated venue.

Alongside this, I created my own offerings: Women’s Circles, Conscious Dance, and Conscious Dating.

Training & Experience

  • Certified Relational Life Therapy Coach

  • Trauma-informed practitioner

  • Certified MOE Foundation coach

  • Ongoing supervision and mentorship

  • Graduate of Yoga of Sound and Chocolate & Midwifing the Veils

  • 9+ years experience working with individuals, couples and groups

  • Collaborations with leading festivals and conscious organisations including: Medicine Festival, Ecstatic Dance UK, Ace Collective, Morning Gloryville, &Soul and Togetherness

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Testimonials

  • I've got a finely tuned bullshit detector, and it takes a lot for me to trust a facilitator enough to let go. Gaia is one of those facilitators. Warm, discerning, silly. She's overflowing with obviously hard-won wisdom, delivered with a twinkle in the eye that speaks to her connection to her own fallible humanness. She's a rare and special creature and I would encourage others to put their faith in her as I have done."

    Michael Matania, CEO Mycelium

  • You have a way of creating the most non-judgemental, all-embracing spaces, and it starts with how you showed up for us as your full, perfectly imperfect, self. You created a deep sense of trust. I love your balance of gentleness and wildness; of both creating safe space and pushing us to lean into our edges. Your use of humour and humility is so refreshing.

    Caitlyn O’Conner Teacher and Coach

  • Gaia was loving, encouraging and empowering. She artfully led us through the process, bringing us to our edges just enough. Her trust in us allowed us to trust ourselves.

    Jenny Kirby

  • Gaia has a wealth of knowledge and she's an exceptional facilitator. In fact, what I'm truly here for is the depth she can present. Her beautifully crafted, educational, practical and emotional spaces were teaching me in ways it's been challenging, and still comfortable enough to open up and show myself.

    Orshi Orsolya Szeverics, Facilitator and Somatic Practitioner

  • Gaia is such an amazing facilitator. I learned so much about myself while being utterly fascinated with all that I was learning. And what a beautiful community of people, so open and welcoming.

    Chanuki S.

  • I loved witnessing Gaia's ability to 'read the room', adapt her content each week to our needs and her intuitive nature in dealing with challenging emotions that arose within the group.

    Alice Mayor - Founder of We Built This City

  • Gaia felt very real. She included the light and the dark in what she was sharing with us. I loved the stories that Gaia brought and how she delivered them with playfulness and commitment.

    Lelia

  • Gaia is authentic and I like that. She is great at reading a room, even over Zoom and she is willing to listen and change up her plans if it means the group will get more out of the experience. Gaia has a real passion for this work and it shows.

    Raquel Lopez

  • I feel very lucky we found Gaia, the relational coaching has been worth more than I can say, how can you put a price on something that helps you rediscover the love and joy you have for your partner after a really challenging period.

    Anna M

  • Gaia held the space with kindness, humility and great care, drawing on her own experience & vulnerability with refreshing honesty and a lightness we both appreciated too. We were helped through a very sticky situation that without the sessions may have been too much for us to navigate.

    Richard Batts - Ecstatic Dance UK