About Kay

Although I grew up in a house where 'spirituality' was respected and talked about openly, and my mum had done a lot of healing through the spiritualist church, I didn't know much about healing and never followed that path myself. Although all the women in my family were psychic, I never felt that I had those gifts, and it wasn't until I left for university at the age of 18 that I began to have 'strange experiences' myself. The psychic experiences I had came unbidden so I had to learn to control my own energy and the space I inhabited, which took a long time. After years of experimenting with psychic divination techniques and magick, I finally found a pagan path that I felt I could follow. In the early stages of following this personal spiritual pathway, I felt that there was something really important that was missing from myself and my life. I couldn't put my finger on what it was. I didn't enjoy my job, but didn't know what else I wanted to do. I was interested in pagan spirituality, but felt unable to truly commit to it, like I wasn't quite ready. It seemed as though there were so many possibilities out there, but I didn't really know who I was or what I wanted to do. I was feeling depressed and a bit lost, so I meditated and asked for guidance on the issue.

A series of chance meetings, casual words from others, and coincidences made me decide to learn about healing. Despite the fact I had no idea what it meant - I followed the coincidences and trusted it would lead me to the right place - I signed up for a year long course in shamanic healing practices. It didn't begin for a while, and in the meantime I started hearing mentions of Reiki. I'd heard the term before, but had no idea what the system entailed so I did some research. Reiki seemed so different from the practices I was familiar with, and I didn't feel drawn to it at all until I found the person who was to become my Reiki Master. I felt certain I had to train with her, and I didn't want to wait! Her upcoming class was fully booked, so I contacted her to ask to be waitlisted. Fortunately she was able to offer me an earlier class (my email obviously showed how desperate I was to get started!) but I was busy working 6 day weeks at the time. The pull to do the course was so strong, and I was so overworked with annual leave overdue, that I told my boss I was taking an entire week off. When it was made clear that it might be a problem, I made it equally clear that I wasn't asking - I wanted more than anything to do this course!

From the first Reiki treatment I did during that Reiki 1 course, I realised right away that this was what had been missing, it was what I wanted to do, and what I should be doing. It felt so powerful, and yet so peaceful. All my years of education had never given me any clues as to what I wanted to do, so I had spent years floating through school, college, university, travelling, and unsatisfying jobs, with no drive to do anything. And suddenly in one day I realised exactly what I had to be focused on and working towards, and what I wanted to do with my life.

My training as a shamanic healer started that same week, and yet another world was opened up to me through two excellent teachers and a group of fellow healers who would challenge and support me through the next couple of years. Reiki and Shamanic healing both changed my life, in different ways. Reiki gave me the clarity to see to what I wanted to change, and made me feel comforted and protected as I moved forward. It is still the system that I use every day, to keep myself balanced and centred as I continue on my path. The Shamanic healing allowed me to trace the courses of physical and emotional pain, find out where they came from, and work to remove them from my body. I worked with regression, soul retrieval and cord cutting techniques, tending old wounds to draw out anger, pain and sadness that I had been carrying for longer than I knew. I also discovered my passion for healing with sound, working with vocal techniques, leading to medicine drumming and later the Reiki Drum technique.

After taking that week off to begin my journey, I walked into the office the following Monday and handed in my notice. As scary as it seems looking back, I didn't work for a few months, focusing instead on meditation and self healing, while practicing Reiki on as many willing volunteers as I could. I've never looked back. Although I had to go back to office work again for a while, I started doing treatments when I could and remained dedicated to my own self healing. I did my Reiki Mastership in 2005, and the change in my practice and my own energy was almost as major as discovering Reiki in the first place! I decided I didn't want to teach, I wanted to enjoy working with this new, stronger energy as much as I could. But, as is so often the way with Reiki, the energy had other ideas. People started asking me to teach them and so I started by teaching friends at home - and I discovered that I loved teaching even more than doing treatments. At the same time, my connection to the Shamanic energies was getting stronger, and my practice was evolving into something more powerful as I worked through my own self healing. I learned how to work more effectively to help others confront their issues and heal their past. At the end of 2007 I knew it was make or break time. I meditated on the issue and it was clear that I needed to leave the day job behind and commit fulltime to healing work, that if I did this without worrying if everything would be ok, no longer spending time on any work that I don't love, I could really start to build the life I wanted for myself.

2008 was the year I became a full time, professional healer and teacher. I have finally found a way of living and a livelihood which exists peacefully with my personal spiritual path. By working with these two very different systems of energy, Reiki and Shamanic healing, I was healed of painful physical discomfort that I had lived with for years, and I found a new understanding of myself, and my place in the world. Now I am blessed with the opportunity to do deep healing work for people, giving treatments for all manner of issues including grief, depression, panic attacks, chronic back pain, IBS, menstrual problems, arthritis, stress, post-viral conditions, injuries and broken bones. I am privileged enough to teach other spiritual seekers and healers, and be a part of their journey. Every client and every student I meet teaches me more about healing and about myself, and about the strength that every person has to change their life for the better. I celebrate the blessing of my work every single day.