How We Work
We don’t prescribe, we create the conditions for you to thrive.
Muted Healing isn’t a system that you follow, we’ve always maintained that it’s a space that you enter, and are responsible for co-creating. After all, ‘healing’ is a verb, it requires action right?
Our approach is grounded in Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, meaning we begin with what’s strong, not what’s wrong. That said, the beautiful intersection of our coaching and counselling services means we have the scope to make space for both depending on what the client needs.
We ask, “what do you need?” rather than “what’s the matter with you?” across everything we offer, whether that’s 1:1 therapy or coaching, a workshop for your team, or a BodyMind away day. All Muted Healing offerings are designed to quieten the external noise long enough for your own voice to become audible to you. That’s the mission.
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Trauma-Informed, Always
Every session, workshop, and interaction is designed with psychological safety as the foundation, not an add-on. We take this so seriously that we even train companies, schools, and Higher Education courses on how to create trauma-informed safe spaces.
Culturally Attuned
There’s a sufi saying which says ‘Do not cut the person to fit the cloth’ and we live by this – there a things that the coaching/therapy room doesn’t hold well because it hasn’t been built with everyone in mind – the weight of collectivist expectation, the dual identities, the exhaustion of masking – we hold all of these things and adapt.
Strengths Before Deficits
Positive Psychology is not toxic positivity, it’s the evidence-based practice of building from what’s already working, and we help you uncover what you may have missed from this.
Body and Mind, Together
The BodyMind approach is a recognition that stress, trauma, and wellbeing live in the body as much as the mind. Our therapeutic bodywork, movement, and somatic practices treat them as one.
Your Pace, Your Path
We don’t believe in standardised healing programmes, or 8 week cure-alls. Some people need a single breakthrough session, others need years of steady support.
We meet you where you are and walk at the speed that works for you.
Our Values
Evidence based, properly accredited, deeply human.
Respect
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For our profession, means we are accredited and insured, because we hold ourselves the standards we want for you. Check out the various team members individual credentials.
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For our clients, means we are culturally attuned, and do not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Interventions are tailored to you.
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For ourselves, means we exercise a healthy work-life balance, and work in line with what aligns with our values.
Open-Mindedness
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For our profession, means we engage in regular training and supervision to ensure that we are being critically challenged and growing.
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For our clients, means we are inclusive, non-judgemental, and trauma-informed. These are kind of a staple though, what makes us different is that our focus is on cultural responsiveness to clients.
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For ourselves, means we are open to criticality (of our training), and adapting our resources and work.
Curiosity
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For our profession, means we network, connect, and are open to new modalities.
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For our clients, means we create the conditions for deep learning about them.
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For ourselves, means we gently challenge each other and ourselves using coaching techniques to assess the potential for our personal expansion.
Kindness
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For our profession, means we act with honourable and reputable values in speech and behaviour, both online and offline.
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For our clients, means we hold unconditional positive regard for them and operate with nuance in a person-centred way.
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For ourselves, we also hold unconditional positive regard (or seek out the space to do so), and also allow grace and compassion to lead us where necessary with kind accountability.
The Who
Who comes here.
We work with individuals and organisations that hold the belief that wellbeing is worth taking seriously, and a readiness to do it in a way that doesn’t require you to leave your whole identity at the door.
For Global Majority Professionals
If you’re a Global Majority professional carrying the weight of that inheritance, the ambition, the silence, the love, the pressure – you won’t have to translate yourself here.
For Neurodivergent People
If you’re neurodivergent and tired of coaching spaces that expect you to adapt to them – we adapt to you.
For Leaders, Everywhere.
If you’re a leader, a parent, a burned-out healer, or simply someone who’s been carrying too much for too long – there’s a chair here with your name on it.