Who we are
Body Psychotherapist, Somatic Trauma Therapist, Biodynamic Massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (EAP, IABP, UKCP, ICP)
Hayley Stevens
Process Oriented Facilitator & Mentor
for individuals and couples
Owen Stevens
More about Hayley
I accompany people navigating trauma, disconnection, and the search for aliveness.
Many people find their way to me through trauma. Sometimes arriving with a clear story — a shock, a loss, an experience that changed everything. Sometimes there's no clear story at all, only a life that feels narrow or constricted. A body that won't settle. A persistent sense that something vital is missing.
That “something” is what I think of as the creative life force — this energy when it flows freely, allows us to feel fully alive. Trauma, in its many forms, can interrupt that flow. The symptoms may include but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, difficulties with intimacy, questions of identity and meaning, long-term illness, or the quiet grief of a life not yet fully lived.
This is where I meet people.
My approach is somatic, which means I work with the body as well as the mind.
We follow what’s present: breath, sensation, movement, and the impulses that have been waiting to be heard. Rather than trying to manage or override the nervous system, we begin by meeting it.
I came to this practice through my own searching — a process that continues to unfold. Movement, breath, creative self-expression, and the felt sense of being embodied became my teachers. As my understanding deepened, I sought out formal training that could support this learning: including Integrative Psychotherapy with Metanoia, Body Psychotherapy at the Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre, and subsequently in Somatic Trauma Therapy with Babette Rothschild, EMDR, and Guided Drawing for Healing Trauma.
I’m trained in therapeutic touch, including biodynamic massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and have completed a four-year teacher training in Elemental Chi Kung.
I’ve been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2006 and am registered with EABP, IABP and UKCP. My work with people began a decade earlier through coaching, facilitation, and personal development work.
The body knows things the mind hasn’t caught up with yet.
At the core of every person is an intrinsically healthy self — not broken or in need of fixing, but sometimes disconnected from aliveness.
When the conditions for listening are in place, something begins to shift. The breath deepens. The body softens. What felt stuck starts, gradually, to move. Change becomes less of an effort and more of a homecoming.
Sessions are shaped collaboratively. This might include conversation, breath work, movement, visualisation, bioenergetic exercises, or body-based therapies such as biodynamic massage, craniosacral work, or EMDR. There is no fixed formula — only an ongoing curiosity about what wants to emerge.
I work in-person in Kerry (Ireland) and Macclesfield (UK), as well as online.
More about Owen
I work with people who feel an underlying disconnection from life.
Maybe life got smaller somewhere along the way. Maybe the passion drained out. Maybe there’s a version of themselves they haven’t fully inhabited yet.
The spaces where real change happens are spaces where everything and everyone is welcome. Not just the presentable parts — the acceptable feelings, the tidy narratives. The difficult, the contradictory, the unexpected and, the discombobulation that can leave us feeling unsure about the very things we feel so sure about. Welcome discombobulation.
This is what Arnold Mindell calls deep democracy: the loving and respectful inclusion of all levels of reality. It’s the foundation of how I work. Whatever is brought, we meet it with curiosity.
I draw on Ericksonian Therapy, creative improvisation and Process Oriented Psychology. I’ve been studying process work since 2017, trained with the Process Work Institute in Portland, Oregon. My approach has, and continues to be, profoundly shaped by work with Bradford Keeney and Hilary Keeney (Sacred Ecstatics) and Arnold Mindel (Process Work). I’ve also trained in Creativity and Leadership with the London Institute of Creativity, and I’ve been a student of Vipassana Meditation for 21 years.
Being a father for 29 years has shaped me — perhaps more than anything else — reminding me that life is in a constant and wondrous state of flux, that continues to unfold in ways that I could and can never imagine.
“Art is knowing in action”
My approach is collaborative, improvised.
Meaning is evoked, not imposed. We work with whatever is unfolding. embodying and enact rather than describe.
Our story so far
2010
We founded Silk House Therapy Practice in Macclesfield — a space created with care, attention and beauty, for our clients, ourselves and the therapists who joined us.
It became a co-operative, Silk House Therapy & Wellbeing, in 2025.
2019
We opened the big room cic next door to Silk House — because we had started to feel that therapy was becoming too confined, too small-roomed. We wanted something bigger and more communal. A communal space where healing could be more creative, spontaneous, and surprising.
2023
We listened to a deeper pull — toward nature, toward silence, toward expansiveness — and moved to County Kerry. It felt like the next chapter of the adventure. It still does.
