Return to Self - Foundations
'You can only go as deep with someone else as you've gone within yourself'
Early enrollment - £697
This course is for you if...
- You work in a healing or helping role and want to do it without burning out
- You notice patterns of over-responsibility, over-functioning, numbness or holding it all together
- You want trauma-aware understanding that reaches the body, not just the mind
- You care about the safety and ethics of the spaces you hold
- You're ready to deepen your foundations - in a shame-free, paced way
You don't need to be in crisis to benefit. This is about returning to steadiness, choice and inner support.
This course may not be right for you if:
- You want a quick fix or rapid transformation
- You're looking for therapy or clinical treatment (this education will help, but is not intended as a substitute)
- You mainly want new techniques rather than deeper orientation and capacity
- You prefer fast-paced, motivational style learning
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How the course unfolds
Many helpers, healers, and practitioners are highly skilled at supporting others, yet have had little structured support for understanding and tending to their own nervous system, body, and patterns of responsibility.
Over time, this can show up as quiet depletion, loss of confidence, numbness, over-functioning, or a sense of holding it all together - not because something is wrong, but because these patterns often developed as intelligent ways of coping and caring.
Return to Self – Foundations exists to meet this gap. It offers a grounded, trauma-aware space to explore how personal history, stress, and relational patterns shape our work - and how greater awareness and integration support steadier presence, clearer choice, and more sustainable practice.
Over time, this can show up as quiet depletion, loss of confidence, numbness, over-functioning, or a sense of holding it all together - not because something is wrong, but because these patterns often developed as intelligent ways of coping and caring.
Return to Self – Foundations exists to meet this gap. It offers a grounded, trauma-aware space to explore how personal history, stress, and relational patterns shape our work - and how greater awareness and integration support steadier presence, clearer choice, and more sustainable practice.
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The course framework
Return to Self - Foundations is a comprehensive, integrative course that brings together psychological understanding, nervous-system awareness, body-based insight, and wider physiological and energetic perspectives into a single, coherent framework.
Rather than isolating one domain of healing, the course works across mind, body, nervous system, relational experience, behaviour, sleep, nutrition, and energy, recognising that trauma and stress affect the whole system - and that sustainable change requires these elements to be understood together, not in isolation.
The course begins by establishing orientation, safety, and pacing, offering a grounded foundation for the work ahead. From here, it explores how beliefs, early experiences, and stress shape perception, emotional responses, and patterns of behaviour over time.
A portion of the course is dedicated to understanding the nervous system and the Window of Tolerance, providing a clear framework for recognising states of regulation, activation, shutdown and functional freeze. This understanding is woven throughout the course as an organising principle rather than treated as a standalone topic.
The work then expands into relational and developmental dimensions, exploring attachment, responsibility, boundaries, and the patterns that often emerge in those who support others. These patterns are contextualised within lived experience rather than framed as traits or diagnoses.
It moves into the body, examining how stress and trauma are held physically and structurally - including posture, chronic tension, and fascial holding patterns - and how these relate to both nervous-system function and energetic flow. Western models of physiology are placed alongside Eastern perspectives, including the relationship between fascia and the meridian system.
Distinctive within this course is the attention given to sleep and nutrition as foundational regulators of mental and emotional wellbeing. These are not treated as lifestyle add-ons, but as core aspects of nervous-system health, influencing mood, cognition, regulation, and capacity for integration.
Throughout the journey, participants are introduced to experiential and non-cognitive pathways - including breathwork, somatic awareness, movement, reflection, and rhythm - supporting understanding to move beyond concept into lived experience.
The final sections of the course focus on integration: how insight is carried into daily life, how patterns are recognised without over-monitoring, and how steadiness, self-trust, and sustainability are cultivated over time, both personally and professionally.
What makes this course different
Many programmes teach trauma theory.
Many teach regulation techniques.
Many offer frameworks to apply with others.
Return to Self - Foundations is different because it begins with the practitioner. It is not a collection of techniques, nor a single-theory model. It is a rare offering that integrates multiple domains of healing into one coherent, trauma-aware framework, designed primarily for those who support others and want to deepen the ground from which they work. It positions you as someone responsible for the depth and steadiness of your own system.
It reflects decades of practice, study, and lived experience, brought together with care, nuance, and respect for the complexity of the human system.
Early reviews have consistently described the course as 'different in depth' and 'surprisingly grounding', as well as commented on the richness of the content.
Many teach regulation techniques.
Many offer frameworks to apply with others.
Return to Self - Foundations is different because it begins with the practitioner. It is not a collection of techniques, nor a single-theory model. It is a rare offering that integrates multiple domains of healing into one coherent, trauma-aware framework, designed primarily for those who support others and want to deepen the ground from which they work. It positions you as someone responsible for the depth and steadiness of your own system.
It reflects decades of practice, study, and lived experience, brought together with care, nuance, and respect for the complexity of the human system.
Early reviews have consistently described the course as 'different in depth' and 'surprisingly grounding', as well as commented on the richness of the content.
Frequently asked questions
How long is the course?
The course is structured across eleven modules. It is designed to be returned to over time rather than completed quickly.
How much time does it require?
Most participants engage in short sessions, typically between 30 and 90 minutes at a time. The course is self-paced, with no expectation to move through content on a schedule. Especially important is the self-reflection and practices, which is done away from the course itself and becomes part of your daily routine.
Is the course live or self-paced?
The core course is self-paced. Where live sessions or community elements are included, participation is optional and always held with an emphasis on safety and choice.
Is this therapy?
No. This is an educational and reflective course designed to support understanding, awareness and integration. It does not replace psychotherapy or medical care.
I'm not a practitioner or helper, is it suitable for me?
It's designed primarily for practitioners and helpers, but it can also suit people who are already familiar with inner work and want a structured, paced foundation.
Do I need prior trauma training?
No prior training is required. The course is designed to be accessible while still offering depth for experienced practitioners.
How long do I have access?
There is no specified duration - the course is yours to revisit whenever you need to.
Is there a recommended pace?
The course encourages listening to one's own system. Slower engagement is explicitly supported and repetition is welcomed.
Is there support if the material feels challenging?
The course is designed with pacing and containment in mind, so we recommend grounding and taking it gently to avoid overwhelm. However, if material does become too challenging you can reach out to us via the community or email. We would encourage you to seek additional professional support if necessary.
About the facilitators
Return to Self – Foundations is created and facilitated by Jess and Lee, practitioners with decades of combined experience across psychotherapy, body-based therapy, breathwork, and trauma-aware practice.
The course is shaped by long-term clinical and therapeutic work, extensive training across multiple modalities, and lived experience of what it means to support others over time. It reflects a commitment to integration rather than technique, and to working with the whole system rather than isolated symptoms or single models.
Rather than presenting a fixed theoretical approach, Jess and Lee draw from psychological, somatic, relational, physiological, and energetic perspectives, held within a trauma-aware and ethically paced framework. This allows complexity to be met without reduction, and depth to be held without overwhelm.
At the heart of their work is a respect for the intelligence of the human system, and an understanding that sustainable healing emerges through safety, relationship, and embodiment. Return to Self - Foundations is offered in that spirit - grounded, considered, and supportive of real-world practice.
Further information about Lee and Jess' backgrounds and experience can be found on the About Us page
Further information about Lee and Jess' backgrounds and experience can be found on the About Us page
An invitation
Return to Self - Foundations is offered as a space to deepen the ground from which healing work is held.
This course is for those who sense that sustainable, ethical practice depends not on doing more, but on understanding more - and on supporting the whole system rather than working at the surface.
Participants are invited to enter at their own pace, return to the material as needed, and allow understanding to integrate over time.
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