About Elizabeth

She/her/they/them

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” - Rumi

I am a believer in the power of presence and love to reconnect us with what is true, important and soulful.

In our embodiment lie our power, intuition and joy. Engaging in somatic work requires faith and courage - it is work that takes time and a willingness to enter the mystery, but it is a pathway to healing available to all.

I see this work as political and am deeply concerned with our embeddedness in relationship: relationship with each other, with community, ancestors, nature, Earth, and spirit!

We can only go so far on our own, and we also have so much more resource at our fingertips, inside our bodies, and amongst us, than our political, social and familial environments may condition us to believe. Within these contexts that are challenging for all and acutely violent for many, our survival ‘shapes’ or the ways in which our nervous system adapts to keep us safe make sense. I am passionate about meeting these survival responses with compassion, and gently peeling back the shame than can keep us estranged from dignity, belonging and purpose. 

Alongside my bodywork and therapy practice, I work in community mental health where I train and supervise volunteers on an emotional support helpline. Connecting all my work is a commitment to listening deeply and following what is present. I work in a person-centred way and truly care about your experience. 

I love a lot of things including dancing, travelling, growing things, and connecting with people, poetry and nature.

How I work:

I care about offering massage and bodywork that meets you where you are, respectfully and compassionately, so that you can experience how deeply co-regulating, nourishing and empowering touch can be.

Relational, sensitive touch that meets your body’s pace can help you shift your relationship with yourself. Therapeutic massage supports the unravelling of tension, cools inflammation, frees the breath and helps you settle into deep parasympathetic rest.

The focus of my work is now on working therapeutically which I am holding space for in different ways depending on your needs. Please explore: Womb & Pelvic Bodywork and Somatic Yoga Therapy.

Process-oriented somatic therapy is extremely effective at repatterning nervous system adaptations and tapping into implicit memory held in the body. It's well suited to healing attachment and preverbal ruptures, intergenerational trauma, cpts and chronic illness. We take a strengths-based approach focusing on establishing safety and tapping into the gold.

Who I work with:

I work with people of all genders, and my practice centres women, people with wombs and queer people. 

People are drawn to massage for many reasons. I have many clients looking for an experience that goes deeper than the physical, and that is sensitive and attuned.

I have worked long-term with clients who are going through cancer treatment. I truly value being able to offer a therapeutic space and nurturing touch to clients who are experiencing medicalised touch and interventions.

People have come to me with insomnia, chronic fatigue, anxiety, dissociation, pelvic and menstrual issues, sciatica, headaches etc. 

You may be looking for support through life transitions, bereavement, pregnancy, relationship changes, and/or looking to (re)connect with your body wisdom and vitality.

Photos by Matt Jarvis

Qualifications:

Trauma-Informed Womb-Somatic Bodywork & Yoga Therapy (750 hours) Diploma with Sophia Ansari (2025-2026)

Waking Womb, Soma School, Somatic Practitioner for the Female Nervous-System (2026)

Massage CPD including Deep Tissue Massage, Massage for Pregnancy and Acupressure Facial Therapy

Holistic Massage Diploma (Level 4), Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork, 2023-2024

Trauma-Informed Community Yoga, Bristol Yoga Roots Project, 2023

Restorative yoga certificate with Mel Skinner, 2023

Postgraduate Certificate in Integrative Counselling Skills (Level 7), University of South Wales, 2022

300 hr Yoga Foundations certificate with Amy Yoga, Cornwall, 2021

I am a member of the Massage Training Institute, and am fully insured by Balens.

I engage in regular supervision and am committed to working ethically.

  • It's a pleasure to write a testimonial for Elizabeth. I felt I was professionally held by a skilled and compassionate masseuse. Elizabeth's therapeutic touch enabled me to be present with different sensations as they arose in the moment. I felt safe and relaxed as my breath settled and lengthened through the massage which released tissues along with attunement to emotions underneath sensations. This was held very naturally with Elizabeth's expertise from knowing her medium. She incorporated appropriate time for some talking in this process so that I left the session with release, balance and clarity. I highly recommend her.

    Nina Dhiman, Mindfulness Teacher & Yoga Therapist

  • Elizabeth is a deeply intelligent and intuitive person. Her touch is sensitive and present, which is reflective of who she is as an individual. She has great capacity for facilitating people on their healing paths, and is easy to be around; she is welcoming and warm, and I always feel her sense of presence when in her company. Elizabeth is fantastic at holding space and is able to sense what energetic state I may be in and can guide me to re-ground using her touch. I highly recommend Elizabeth to anybody who wants to work with a healer who is truly in touch with their core and is able to guide others along their own paths through use of loving and healing touch.

    Luke, Google Review

  • Elizabeth is incredible. She can sense exactly what you need from a massage and is so intuitive with her practice. Today she cured my migraine! And in the past she brought up some emotions I didn't even know I had. Absolute magic. Thanks so much for everything Elizabeth!

    Marnie, Google Review

  • Elizabeth is magic! I struggle with endometriosis and fibroids, which means I am in extreme pain or discomfort for at least half of every month. It impacts my mood and energy levels. Since having regular massages with Elizabeth, who listens to how my symptoms have impacted me, and focuses on problem areas- my pain has been significantly better! She has also helped me understand my body better, and the womb massage not only relieves my pain, but also releases endorphins which leave me feeling happy and energized. This is inexplicably impactful, since no medication or treatment has helped me this way!

    P.D.

  • It's been such a long time since my massage with you but ever since I have wanted to pass on quite how incredible the whole experience was. I felt so much shift internally in the days following it. I would love to book in again with you in the coming weeks...

    Client April 2025, shared with permission

  • I’ve been living with chronic neck and shoulder pain for several months now and I have felt that Elizabeth’s gentle and targeted holistic massage therapy has already helped to ease the pain after just one appointment. Before, during, and after my massage I felt so listened to and held by Elizabeth. It was such a beautiful experience.

    Paul

  • I had a wonderful massage with Elizabeth. Her approach is intuitive, caring and responsive, and she created a space that felt very safe, checking in with my comfort and experience at just the right moments. I left feeling calm and balanced, and can’t wait to come again. I’d recommend her to anyone.

    Sophie

Get in touch

Please get in touch with any queries and booking requests.

If you’d like to chat about how somatic therapies can support you, I am very happy to arrange an initial consultation over the phone.