The Sanctuary
A six-month 1:1 deep dive for when you’ve already done the work, and now your system needs to catch up.
You’ve built the stability and you’ve done a ton of inner work.
And now there’s enough stability to slow down. Enough self-awareness to notice what still hasn’t quite settled. And enough honesty to feel where insight hasn’t fully translated into embodiment.
This isn’t about chasing breakthroughs, thank goodness.
It’s about allowing what you already see and know to integrate — so your nervous system can reorganise around it instead of bracing against it.
Change here doesn’t come from intensity. It comes from working precisely, and at a pace your system can stay with.
The space is structured and steady. Both attuned and real. Held long enough for old relational and developmental patterns to update — without having to relive or dramatise them.
Over time, something roots deep into the soil of your being.
Boundaries don’t require so much effort. Capacity widens without you forcing it. Responses shift in ways that feel natural rather than manufactured.
From here it’s less about accessing power, and more about allowing it to stabilise.
This work tends to suit people who want expansion — but not at the cost of safety. People who are ready for coherence, and willing to let their nervous system catch up with what their heart already knows.
The Sanctuary is a six-month 1:1 container for people who know there is more of them ready to be lived.
“I’ve done the deep work — therapy, initiations, trauma healing — but I kept circling the same invisible edge.
The Sanctuary didn’t give me more tools. It gave me access to the version of me who no longer needs to prove, perform, or protect — who trusts her nervous system to hold her fullness.
What changed?
I lead and speak with clarity and authority. I create without collapse. My relationships are cleaner and more honest. The pause before the leap now feels like steady power, not procrastination.
This six-month journey was a return to my original blueprint — to my wholeness — and final to have the authority to live from it.
If you’re looking for a place to collapse or spin, this isn’t it.
But if you’re ready to enter as the version of you who no longer explains, performs, or delays
Then I would say: Step in - fully.Jessica J | Somatic Coach
You Might Be Here Because…
You’ve already done a lot of work. You understand your patterns. You’ve named what hurt. You’ve gathered tools that genuinely help.
And still — in certain moments — your body doesn’t quite follow.
Under pressure, something familiar slips in, a tightness, sharp words or checking out.
Most of the time there’s steadiness… and yet underneath it, a subtle bracing.
It’s not dramatic, but it’s quiet and persistent.
This usually isn’t about needing more awareness.
Sometimes what’s missing is the right kind of steadiness. Space that doesn’t rush growth, but also doesn’t let you circle the same ground indefinitely. Long enough for the nervous system to reorganise instead of just understand.
When that happens, the shift is understated.
Old vigilance softens, decisions no longer unravel and hard conversations don’t require armouring first.
Alongside there’s less pull to prove, manage, or perform.
Your capacity widens without force, and your power is simply there — available, grounded, consistent.
Just a baseline that finally matches what’s already known.
And from here expansion becomes possible because it feels safe enough to stay.
This work lives in that space between knowing and living. Between growth and the actual capacity to hold it.
And when the conditions are right, integration stops being something you chase and starts being something that settles deep into your being.
The Pillars of The Sanctuary
Expansion Without Override
Most of the people who come into this work have already done a lot of inner exploration. They understand their patterns. They can name what happened. And still, in certain moments, their system braces.
This means integration hasn’t fully landed in the body yet.
In The Sanctuary, we pay close attention to pace. We work at a speed your nervous system can genuinely stay with — not pushing past capacity, and not lingering in analysis. The aim is steady movement that your system can absorb.
When the pace is right, capacity widens naturally. Change doesn’t spike and disappear instead it settles. Over time, your baseline begins to shift.
Things that once required effort start to feel steadier. Quieter and more self-led.
Being Met Without Performance
Many of the people I work with are used to being the capable one — the one who holds the room, anticipates needs, or translates themselves so others feel comfortable.
In this space, you don’t need to do that.
There’s no requirement to arrive polished or coherent. We work with what’s actually here, in real time — including the parts of you that are still uncertain, bracing, or figuring it out.
When you’re met with compassion, with accuracy and without distortion, something shifts. The need to effort reduces. Authenticity takes a different form and power feels less like something you have to generate and more like something that’s already there.
Over time, the need to perform growth softens. What remains is something quieter and more inhabitable.
Depth Without Overwhelm
Some of what shaped you may still live in your system — in how you brace, withdraw, overextend, or stay alert.
There’s space for that here.
We don’t dig for intensity or push for catharsis - you’ll be happy to hear. And we don’t rush toward resolution. We stay with what your system can genuinely remain present with — even when what’s emerging is old and carries pain.
Sometimes that presence means touching something tender, but doing so in a way that keeps you anchored. Sometimes it means noticing how a familiar pattern appears in the room between us, and working with it from steadiness rather than collapse.
Capacity builds as we take this journey together.
And when capacity grows alongside the work, change doesn’t just spike and then disappear. It settles. It reorganises. It becomes embodied and part of how you move through your life.
Over time, what once felt overwhelming becomes workable, and what once carried charge begins to feel less like a threat and more like something understood.
Inner Leadership
The parts of you that over-function, grip, explain, disappear, or stay vigilant aren’t problems to solve.
They learned how to keep you safe.
In this work, we don’t try to silence them or push them out of the way. We get to know them, so we can understand what they’ve been carrying. And gradually, they don’t have to work so hard or so alone.
As that shifts, something reorganises inside of you.
The urgency or protection that’s familiar stops running you in the same way. Your choices begin to feel clearer and your responses carry more intention, less reactivity.
Leadership moves inward towards the truer version of you.
And when your inner system feels more coherent, the outside world tends to feel less charged because you’re meeting it from a place of steadiness within.
“My experience in The Sanctuary didn’t just create change — it created transformation.
Patterns I had been aware of for years but could never quite shift finally dissolved. The old ways I related to my work — overcommitting, overgiving, pushing myself beyond my limits — softened and rewired. I moved from reactive survival strategies into an embodied sense of abundance, trust, and enoughness. For the first time, I felt spaciousness and possibility around my work instead of pressure.If I had to name the heart of this experience in just a few words, it would be:
Loving awareness. Deep tending. Transformative healing.To anyone standing at the edge of their own healing who are feeling the call but afraid to step in just do it. You don’t need another strategy or plan. You need to explore the embodied patterns that are quietly holding you back from flourishing, from recognising your own deep worthiness, and from stepping into your powerful potential.
The Sanctuary has utterly changed how I feel about my work and the possibilities for my life. I am so grateful I made the decision to invest in this programme. It has made such a positive impact on my life.”
Odharnait Ansbro | Leadership Coach
The Structure of The Sanctuary
The Rhythm
The Sanctuary unfolds over a period of six months.
Long enough for things to land and long enough for your system to stop bracing for the end.
We meet twice a month. Not as a quick check-in, but as a steady return point. Something consistent your nervous system can begin to rely on.
There’s no urgency here and no pressure to produce breakthroughs.
Just a reliable rhythm you can lean into.
The Work Itself
When we sit together, we go beneath the surface.
We are not here to analyse endlessly - thank goodness.
Instead we are here to resolve what wants to be revealed.
Over time, your system begins to reorganise around a new embodied sense of safety and coherence.
The relief becomes palpable, and your power becomes steadier, less spiked and more inhabitable.
This is where real change becomes embodied.
Between Sessions
You’re not left alone with the work between our calls.
There’s a powerful library of practices and guidance to support integration between sessions, which I will guide you towards so that you can select the right fit practices.
About Catherine
I know the terrain of survival because I’ve walked it — and because I’ve devoted the last two decades to unthreading the patterns it leaves behind.
My work supports people who are no longer in crisis, yet can feel where their system still braces: in relationship, in visibility, in receiving, in holding power.
I work at the level of identity, nervous system, and relational blueprint through a lens of trauma intelligence, somatic precision, and energetic sovereignty. My background includes advanced training in trauma resolution and somatic integration, alongside deep study of nervous system science and years of lived, embodied reclamation.
You won’t be met with fixing, performance, or force.
Instead you’ll be met with presence, precision, and care — the kind that tells the truth gently and holds you steady while your system reorganises.
The Sanctuary exists for your return to softness without collapse, to power without armour, and to self-leadership that feels rooted in the body.
“I didn’t come to Catherine to be fixed—I came to remember my own strength.
I’d already done healing work, mindset work, somatic work.
But nothing moved the needle like being met in a clean, calibrated space, where my nervous system wasn’t just supported, it was gently stretched to expand.Catherine doesn’t fix.
She reflects you so precisely that the old survival strategies begin to dissolve.With her compassion and guidance I’ve reclaimed my authority.
And I’ve stopped pouring energy into endless and tiring processing.
I move through the world now differently— I’m clearer, steadier, more congruent.If you’re ready to stop circling around your potential and actually embody it, work with her.
But only if you’re willing to meet yourself fully.”Lucy T | Somatic Sexologistt
The Sanctuary FAQ
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The Sanctuary is a six-month 1:1 container for people who know there is more of them ready to be lived.
You’re resourced enough to slow down.
You have awareness. You’ve done work. You’re not looking for a quick fix.
And you’re ready for integration that changes the actually baseline that dictates how you feel day to day.
The Sanctuary is also for people who are willing to be honest.
Not performatively “open,” but genuinely willing to meet what’s true and let it reorganise them. -
The Sanctuary is designed for integration, not intensity.
Rather than chasing peak experiences or endless insight, we create the conditions for your nervous system to update old relational and developmental patterns through consistent, resourced contact over time.
This work is both deep and clean.
We track what’s happening beneath the surface and we move with precision, so you’re not spinning in story or reprocessing what’s already been understood.The Sanctuary is where power roots deeply, quietly and steadily. Until coherence becomes your baseline.
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Sessions are usually held twice per month in a consistent rhythm, but can be more frequent as needed.
You bring what is alive, what’s currently moving, repeating, tightening, or asking to be met.
I bring compassion, clarity, and precision.Each session is crafted around what your system is ready for:
what can be seen, integrated, and reorganised without force.You can expect a blend of somatic work, relational attunement, and strategic truth-telling, always in service of integration.
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Intensity is not a problem here.
It’s information.When activation arises, we meet it with gentle pacing, presence, and resource so that your nervous system stays online enough to integrate what’s happening rather than override it.
You won’t be pushed past your capacity. And you also won’t be left alone inside it.
Over time, your system learns something new through lived experience:
that intensity can move through without collapse, without armouring, and without losing yourself.That becomes part of the recode.
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The Sanctuary works at the level of nervous system, identity, and relational blueprint and it is held as a mentorship container.
We may explore developmental trauma and the imprints it left behind, but the focus stays on integration and present-time transformation: how your system is organised now, and what it needs in order to update.
If you are in acute crisis, experiencing significant instability, or needing clinical mental health support, The Sanctuary will not be the right place to start.
If you are resourced, supported, and ready for deep embodied integration, this work can be profoundly catalytic.
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The Sanctuary is best suited for people who have:
a baseline level of stability in their life and nervous system
the capacity to feel without collapsing or dissociating
willingness to be accountable to their own process
desire for integration over performance
ability to meet themselves with honesty (even when it’s uncomfortable)
You don’t need to be “perfectly regulated.”
You do need to be resourced enough to stay in relationship with yourself.If you’re unsure, we’ll feel for fit together.
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You’ll likely feel it in your bod as a sense of recognition.
The Sanctuary tends to call people who are done with seeking and ready for integration. People who want their power to become steady. People who want to live what they already know.
If you’re craving more intensity, constant breakthroughs, or someone to “do it for you,” this won’t be the right fit.
If you’re ready for resourced depth, consistent attunement, and a container that invites coherence over time, The Sanctuary may be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
Your Investment
The Sanctuary is a six-month 1:1 container for self-led leaders who are ready to release old identities, to deepen capacity, and live from embodied coherence.
This is depth held with structure, so what shifts becomes real, lasting and embodied.
You can step in through one of two levels of support, depending on the rhythm your nervous system needs.
Sanctuary (Core)
For those who want powerful session-based work with spacious integration between sessions.
Includes:
12 x 1:1 sessions over 6 months (60 minutes)
Monthly guided integration audio/video (20–30 minutes) to deepen the work between sessions
Investment: £4,200
or 6 monthly payments of £805 (£4,830 total)
Sanctuary (Supported)
For those who desire deeper proximity and real-time attunement between sessions.
Includes everything in Sanctuary (Core), plus:
Private WhatsApp support (Monday–Friday)
Calibrated guidance for integration, leadership moments, and nervous system recalibration.
We hold this space for precision and attunement rather than venting so that clarity and regulation return quickly and sustainably.
Investment: £5,200
or 6 monthly payments of £905 (£5,430 total)
Client Reviews
“Working with Catherine catalysed a complete nervous system recalibration.
From the very first session, I felt held in a field of surgical precision, integrity, and compassion. This wasn’t about comfort—it was about true coherence. Catherine guided me to meet the protective parts of me I hadn’t even realised were running the show and helped me retire them, gently but powerfully.
I stopped overriding and leaking energy.
And I started living from the centre of myself.
This work expanded my capacity to stay with discomfort, to be able to move through relational charge, and take leadership in places I used to collapse into chronic fawning. I’m not losing myself anymore—I’m actually self-connected for the first time in my life.
The level of attunement, integrity and skill Catherine holds is rare. She mirrors, tracks, calibrates, and invites you to meet your own power—cleanly.
This wasn’t just coaching, this has radically changed my life.
I’m walking away differently in every area of my life because of it.”
— FJ | Somatic Practitioner“The program restructured something at the root.
The process wasn’t just about reparenting, it was about meeting the part of me that had been silently directing my choices from the shadows. Catherine guided me with such precision and presence that I didn’t just understand this part-I felt her. I listened to her unmet needs without collapsing into them.
Something deep shifted.
What had once been an internal tug-of-war became a space of coherence. The emotional charge dissolved, and I felt a newfound clarity in how I move through the world.
This wasn’t surface-level inner child work. It was identity integration.
And it’s still reverberating through my leadership and relationships.”
— CH | Embodiment Facilitator“The most powerful part of this journey was the spaciousness—being met in a way that honoured my body’s pace and truth.
For the first time, I felt full permission to honour what my system needed without urgency or expectation. This wasn’t about ‘fixing’—it was about returning to wholeness, from the inside out.
Catherine held a space that was precise, attuned, and profoundly respectful. Her presence invited a kind of self-meeting that I’d never accessed before. The way she works with the nervous system is subtle and masterful, helping me track patterns I’d been running for years, and gently pruning them at the root.
I learned how to take aligned action from clarity rather than collapse. My capacity to self-regulate deepened. And I began to experience relationships from a place of rootedness and calm rather than anxious fawning or performance.
This is not traditional healing work—it’s been a return to my core essence. Catherine’s ability to guide with such clarity and nervous system regulation was a transmission in itself.
I look back on this experience with deep gratitude. Not just for what shifted—but for who I became in the process.”
— Anon | Somatic Practitioner & Space Holder
“I’ve worked with many therapists over the years—but this was different. Catherine’s approach met me at the level of my leadership, not my wounds.
The space she holds is masterful: both structured and intuitive, educational and embodied. I didn’t just learn about my nervous system—I became fluent in the language of my body. It rediscovered my agency which I didn’t know I had lost.
The blend of nervous system recoding, somatic inquiry, and clear energetic transmission brought deep integration—fast. I no longer outsource my regulation. I know how to meet myself in challenge, and anchor my clarity.
This container helped me consolidate years of personal work into real-time embodiment. It was the missing piece: not more tools, but the capacity to actually live them.
I leave this journey more resourced, more boundaried, and more excited about my life moving forwards than ever before.
— Joy | IFS Practitioner