About Deborah

When the nervous system settles, the whole person changes.

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This understanding - discovered through decades of hands-on work - shapes everything I do. I work with people through Craniosacral Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Integrative Bodywork, supporting people to find their way back to themselves through the body.

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My path here has been both clinical and creative. After qualifying as a massage therapist and graduating as a drama and movement therapist in 2000, I spent years exploring how the body holds our stories and how we can work with - not against - what lives there. I set up and ran a massage service for staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital (1997-2021), delivering massage and Craniosacral Therapy in a high-stress environment where I witnessed again and again how settling the nervous system creates space for everything else to shift.

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Alongside bodywork, I ran projects exploring creative expression, embodied play, and movement as pathways to healing and reconnection. Training in Internal Family Systems brought these threads together - the body-based work, the creative exploration, the understanding of our inner landscape.

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Supporting practitioners

I also support fellow therapists and practitioners in their personal growth and professional development, and continue teaching part-time at the London College of Craniosacral Therapy. My own journey continues through deep meditation, supervision, ongoing training, and Argentine Tango - practices that keep me grounded and present in my work.

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I practice in 2 locations in Brighton - 25 Brangwyn Avenue, BN1 8XH and The Practice Rooms, 57 Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF  https://thepracticerooms.co.uk/

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I am a registered Craniosacral therapist with the Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK and abide by their code of ethics and insured through Balens.
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Core Qualifications:

• IFS Level 1 Trained (2023) & Level 2  (2025)

• Certified in Compassionate Inquiry (2023)

• Registered Craniosacral Therapist (2015)

• Postgrad. Diploma in Drama and Movement Therapy (2000)

• Holistic Massage Therapist (1997) & Advanced Myofascial Release (2017)

• Reiki Usui System: Masters Level (1997-2002)

• Yoga Teacher: 200hrs Sivananda Hatha Yoga (1995)

 

Continued Professional Development:​

• IFS Treatment for Chronic Pain ( IFS Institute )

• Healing Pre-birth & Birth at any age ( Mia Kalif & Centre for Prenatal and perinatal Programs) 

• Embryology and CST (Elissa Dell)

• Chronic Fatigue Conditions and CST (Viola Sampson)

• Touch-Free CST (Liza Borodkina)

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