My Story, Your Journey
About Ashleigh
I didn't arrive here in a straight line, and honestly, many of the best healers don’t
When I was at college, I was seeing a counsellor. Life had dealt me a lot of loss in a very short space of time. Grief that was mine, and grief that wasn't but still found me anyway as I was watching the people I loved carry the unbearable. And so the counselling helped. It helped enough that I enrolled to study it properly - Counselling & Psychology at Chester University was the plan, until life had other ideas.
I had 2 brutal years at college which led to a gap year working in retail. That evolved to banking at the end of the year (whoever dreams of banking?) because the sensible hat on my head was saying it paid better than getting into student debt. And so in I went. I started to study counselling in the evenings at the same college, I was determined to get there another way, until the college pulled the course before I could complete it and then it remained a gap I hoped I'd revisit one day.
I stayed in banking much longer than I had planned to, then I eventually took voluntary redundancy, went travelling, came back with clarity and a pull towards caring work to get some real hands on experience, making a difference across multiple care homes and with every intention of finally completing that degree. Needless to say - it didn't pan out! That's when banking offered a lifeline back, and I took it.
But something else was creeping its way into my life at the same time, I just wasn't aware of it.
In 2018, our cat Moo had distance Reiki, and you 100% cannot make a cat lie. We were somewhat flabbergasted, watching it work on an animal who had no concept of placebo. And it remained on my peripheral until the October of 2019 when Reiki came in for me on a far deeper level and I simply couldn't ignore it.
I launched my practice in 2021 after completing my Second Degree, and I haven't looked back since, because I understand now that I was never meant for the clinical approach to healing. The degree that kept slipping away and the careers redirecting me, I know that these weren't failures, they were the long way round to exactly where I was always supposed to be. Full of life lessons, and bursting at the seams with wisdom.
This is my home.
And if you've found your way here after your own long way round - the appointments that didn't scratch the itch, the prescriptions that helped but didn't heal, and the years of carrying the weight of emotions that conventional routes can't touch - then maybe you already know what I took a long time to learn.
The thing that finds you is the thing that was always meant to.
I'm so glad you're here.
What I Bring to the Room
It's not often you get someone in this line of work who hasn't seen the depths of the darkness themselves.
They've embodied it, walked through it, and that's where Reiki found them.
So yes, Reiki found me the long way round, and I've never taken that lightly. It has always spurred me on to share this wonder with anyone who it could possibly help.
I'm a 12th generation Reiki Master Teacher, attuned through a lineage that traces back through Hayley Lynam, Ethel Kilroy, Jeanine Sande and Iris Ishikuro. In a world where you can find a Reiki certificate in a weekend, lineage matters to me. Knowing where your teaching came from, who held it before you, and how it was passed down, that's not a technicality, it's the foundation.
Your family tree.
I hold 1st Degree courses for a maximum of 3 people, always in person, always across two full days. They're never online, nor 1:1. Because the entire process can be profound and raw, and you deserve a community around you - you're never alone on this journey.
Every student who completes their 1st Degree is welcomed into our private Reiki community, a space where anyone can organise a share, connections grow, and the learning doesn't stop at the end of the weekend.
My 2nd Degree work includes mentorship & ongoing support, and all my students are welcome back for top-up attunements as many times as they need. These are a full hour together, with catch-up, mentorship if wanted, and the attunement itself, plus it's always free of charge.
Beyond Reiki, I'm trained across therapeutic massage, facials, Yin Yoga, gut health and natural healing, with a background in health & social care and counselling. I'm fully insured through ABT. And through a lifetime of women's health (both lived and learned) I've developed a deep, invested understanding of the specific ways women carry stress, grief, and emotional weight in their bodies.
And this isn't incidental to this work - it's the very reason I'm here.
