Hi I'm Joolz!
My journey as a therapist and healer began as a child in the north of England. I was brought up in a spiritualist family where healing and tarot cards was the norm.
I began my Usui Reiki training in the eighties with a wonderful Reiki Master Tom Sweeney who ran the UK School of Reiki Healing in Southport.
Tom was an amazing healer and teacher. Reiki was his passion and soon became mine. I worked from home at the time juggling a young family and quickly found that Reiki could be safely used to heal anyone including children and animals. it also helps with the transition from life to death and can bring comfort to terminally ill patients.
As the children grew up, I went on to study counselling then Psychology which took me into clinical Hypnotherapy.
Learning more about the different therapies and becoming a Soul Midwife (companion to the terminally ill) has become my passion.
Its a spiritual way of life for me and a way of paying things forward.
Celebrant training came next and I have been privileged to officiate some amazing weddings, hand fastings and calibrations of life.
My dream was to have a cottage that would be a retreat and sanctuary for anyone dealing with a cancer diagnosis, where they can have time away to remember and reconnect with who they are and take a break from hospitals and appointments. In essence, to be pampered, relax and have a free treatment.
This dream became a reality in March 2018 when we bought another cottage on the canal (the other is our permanent home) and named it Ravens Retreat and during early 2019 built a fully self-contained treatment facility at the back of the property that I call my 'Healing Hive', however it's all part of the Ravens Retreat offering i.e. cottage and treatment facility, as exhibited throughout this Website.
Acquiring the 2nd cottage was indeed cosmic ordering at its finest and I really do believe we create and manifest our own reality.
To date we have provided 16 free holidays for those in need.
The Ravens Retreat cottage is also available as a holiday let on and anyone is welcome to book some time away and stay on our beautiful canal surrounded by ducks and geese and some of the most beautiful walks in the U.K as well.
This is waterfall valley after all!
The creation of Ravens Retreat - the treatment facility and cottage - was inspired by my dear friend Donna Drewson who always believed in me encouraged me and cheered me on.
She left us on 11.09.2018 and is missed terribly but Ravens Retreat will help families like hers in her name.
Those families who pay to stay are helping us provide those much needed breaks for the amazing people we work with.
2019 Awards
In July 2019 Ravens Retreat won the Emma Heaven online magazine award for the work we do voted for by the public.
We were beyond thrilled and honoured that people had taken the time to vote.
Brightest Blessings - Joolz