Trauma-informed healing to help you feel safe, steady, and fully alive again

Integrated trauma healing for your body, mind, and nervous system.

Esme Winterflood | Embodied Trauma Healing Therapist

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Hitting a wall with talk therapy? Does it feel like your body and nervous system are still carrying the weight of past trauma, stress, or anxiety — even when you understand what happened?

You’re not broken or stuck. Your system is overwhelmed.

Trauma-informed, body-based practices help release what the body has been holding, support nervous system regulation, and create the conditions for real, lasting change — so you can feel safer, calmer, and more present in your life.

If you’re ready to move beyond symptom-management and begin healing at the root, you’re in the right place.

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About Me

Hi, I’m Esme — Certified Yoga Therapist, TCTSY Facilitator, Havening® Practitioner, and Mindfulness Teacher.

I help people release trauma, ease anxiety, and reconnect with their bodies using an integrated approach: trauma-informed yoga therapy, Havening®, mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic practices.

Many people reach a point where talking alone isn’t enough. Even with insight and understanding, the body can still hold tension, fear, or overwhelm — and the nervous system remains on high alert.

My work supports deeper, body-based healing. It’s tailored, evidence-informed, and designed to help your nervous system settle, rewire the brain, restore a sense of safety in the body, and support lasting change — so you can feel calmer, more connected, and fully yourself again.

What you can expect working with me:

  • Release stress, anxiety, and trauma safely

  • Rebuild confidence, emotional steadiness, and resilience

  • Reconnect with your body and your sense of safety

  • Move toward lasting, sustainable change

Curious to learn more about how I work? Just click the button below!

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My Methods

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    1:1 Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy

    Through gentle body and breath based ancient practices, you’ll learn to rebuild safety within, release stored trauma, and awaken a sense of balance, peace, and joy in your body.

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    1:1 & Group TCTSY (Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga):

    An evidence-based yoga method focusing on invitational language, choice making and interoception moving away from fear and bodily disassociation towards saftey and connection.

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    Mindfulness Meditation & Breathwork for Trauma Recovery

    Learn structured and guided practices to calm your mind, ease stress, and cultivate life long inner peace after trauma.

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    Havening Techniques®

    A psychosensory method based on neuroscience, targeting a range of issues, such as PTSD, stress and anxiety, phobias, distressing memories and chronic pain. Releasing stored trauma, heping to soothe anxiety, and restoring emotional balance.

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We begin with a Discovery Session (60 min) — a session to explore:

  • The approach and pace that will best support your healing

  • Your goals for our work together

  • Your history and experiences

From there, you can choose ongoing sessions tailored to your needs. Sessions are offered in 60, 75, or 90 minutes, with ad hoc sessions, packages and block bookings available.

All sessions are offered online so you can receive trauma-informed guidance from anywhere in the world. If you require an in person session, these are held at The Secret Space, 105 Fore Street, Hertford, UK, SG14 1AS.

Click the session options below to see what each includes, then book your first session using the button underneath.

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Testimonials

  • “I absolutely loved working with Esme 1:1.  She has a profound intelligence, and an incredibly compassionate and skillful way of working.”

    ~ Vicky

  • “I can't compliment or recommend Esme's classes enough. I'm so grateful to have found such a fantastic teacher to help me on my yogic journey. Esme, your classes are a lifesaver for me. Thank you.”

    ~ Medhika

  • “The feeling of safety within those 4 walls was amazing , I felt completed safe and unjudged and free , I also felt cared for by not just you but all the other group members , it was a feeling of us all holding our hands out for one another with support and kindness , it really was an amazing feeling and very hard to come by.”

    ~ Cath

  • "For anyone who has experienced trauma and is on a healing journey, I highly recommend Esme’s TCTSY course. Esme’s incredibly gentle, compassionate and accommodating teaching style immediately sets the group at ease.."

    ~ Catherine

  • "….I’m so grateful I could participate this year, the experience undoubtedly played a key role in my recovery, thank you, Esme. “

    ~ Catherine

  • "Her trauma-informed yoga is truly healing—a small oasis in life’s hurricane. Her sessions have been a lifeline for me and many others. Highly recommended."

    ~ Basia

  • "Esme's skill, care and empathy allow her to offer very precise practices (during her yoga sessions and to take into your daily routine) which respond to the person’s needs. Esme’s sessions offer relief and resilience to body and mind and I would recommend this form of yoga to all, but most especially, I recommend Esme."

    ~ Kate

  • "Esme is lovely, gentle and very knowledgeable."

    ~ Jody

  • " Esme is an exceptional teacher. Warm and professionalshe guided me through our sessions with so much kindness and gentle support. I noticed positive changes in my body during and after the sessions. I will continue to practice the techniques I learned. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her'.

    ~ Jo

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Resources To Support Your Healing

Whether we’ve worked together before or you’re just starting your journey, these resources are here to support your healing, calm your nervous system, and help you safely reconnect with your body.

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“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; the power of trauma work is in helping people reclaim that sense of safety in their bodies.”

~ Bessel Van Der Kolk, Psychiatrist, Trauma Expert, Author of ‘The Body Keeps The Score’

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Not sure where to start or what to chat first? Please get in touch here.

esme@embodiedtraumatherapies.com

(+44) 7415 710 961

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