Testimonials
Jane Chignoli
When I began my journey with Amy I did not know what to expect but something had called me to her and I trusted; I was excited by the testimonials coming from clients Amy had worked with and I felt sure that she could help me.
I have been amazed by how quickly Amy saw what I had buried deep inside over many years. She helped me to bring these emotions back to the surface, where I could see and feel them in the context of exactly where I was when I experienced them and buried them.
For many years I had carried them inside me as a narrative and in a safe space Amy helped me to see them as my direct emotional responses and not a story. It was a lightbulb moment for me to see the emotions again and understand the effect they had made on my life, and in truly seeing and understanding I was able to let them go and it felt amazing every time.
My thyroid is well on the way to ‘normal’ function and my sinuses are clear, these are bonuses compared to the peace and joy I feel at my core having released my emotional threads.
I have shared with my family and want to shout from the rooftops so everyone can experience liberation from deep-rooted emotional imbalance. Trust in ourselves as we have the power to heal our bodies with the right guidance. Thank you Amy, I couldn’t have done it without you.
Juliana Ferreira
I was first diagnosed with Hashimoto’s when I was 15 years old, I was then prescribed a common dose of Levothyroxine which I was told I had to take for the rest of my life. Although I experienced the many usual symptoms, my main issues were always related to my mental health; brain fog and difficulty concentrating, which always led me to huge anxiety.
Approximately 7 years ago, I discovered functional medicine and all the latest trends in supplements and antiflamatory diets. I started to get very concerned about the looming threat of Alzheimer’s running in the family, so I experimented with every single gold standard supplement, sleep tracking device, and superfood you can imagine.
I successfully got myself into remission after one year and managed to maintain it. For a while this gave me a huge sense of empowerment, but the price I was paying was very high. Not only financially, but mostly of what it had done for my lifestyle and mental health. I had trapped myself into a rigidity of infinite protocols that would drive my anxiety through the roof if I couldn’t meet the daily tasks and routines.
I saw myself creating an identity out of this lifestyle and firming believes that there was no other way of living. I was growing tired and felt I was living a ‘protected’ limited life, and there was an abundant world of experiences I was shutting myself from.
When I started seeing Amy’s posts about her work, I got very curious as it all resonated so much with me. During our first meeting, I said to her: I feel like a hostage of my own protocols! And I couldn’t wait to be set free.
Since our first session, I was in complete awe when we together unravelled my first emotional thread, a sequence of events in different ages that somehow were related to a common trauma that I was storing in my body. It was like a lightbulb moment! Following that, I was increasingly curious and excited for our next sessions. As we revealed each thread or sometimes blocks, I felt like an onion being pealed and revealing the true self hidden behind all of those old painful beliefs.
We gradually reduced my cabinet of supplements, and re-introduced foods that were long forbidden. However, I was not focused at all on my ‘condition’. Healing my Hashimotos took a complete step back as it also felt inevitable, I knew at some point it was going to happen, and it didn’t feel that important anymore. What took me completely was this feeling of freedom, that I didn’t need any of these things to feel well, and did not depended in any of my numerous protocols and devices to tell me that I was ok. It was like I was holding on to all of that as much as I was holding on to my old stored emotions and beliefs, as if I couldn’t survive without them before.
We have now completely switched off my Hashimotos, I am medication-free, and I am enjoying so many things in life that I would not feel I could before. But the biggest transformation I feel happened is how I see myself in the world and how I deal with my emotions and events. Life isn’t ‘perfect’ right now, somehow it feels scary to see the world without the armour of my ‘condition’, as it offered a framework for me to exist in. Now I am learning how to be this new Juliana, and it feels exciting as I leap in, head diving into the unknown.
Thank you Amy, for helping me find the true me.
Emma
I heard about Amy through a friend. My daughter (2 yrs, 9 months) had just been diagnosed with Alopecia Areata (autoimmune) and had lost most of her hair - I was devastated. I have always been open to alternative medicine but in this case I was forced to find my own path as the western methods of treating alopecia areata (steroid creams and injections) have low success rates and are too aggressive for small children.
The primary appeal in working with Amy was that it would be completely non invasive to my young daughter - even the mildest herbal remedies felt risky with a child.
I always enjoyed my sessions and was often taken aback by the clarity I had in understanding how certain experiences and behaviours (of my own and inter-generationally) were connected. There is something very validating about having your own words read back to you without much external interpretation or imposed doctrine. Physical shifts were subtle and slow but if I look back to when I started I can say with certainty I feel calmer and more content.
My daughter’s hair loss started to reverse about 4 weeks into working with Amy, she now has hair growing across her entire scalp.
My family has a history of autoimmune conditions, particularly affecting the thyroid. Less than a year after giving birth I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and prescribed carbimazol. Since most of my relatives are on thyroid medication, I thought it was something I had to accept. But for almost a year, the medication had no impact on my hormone levels and my endocrinologist doubled my dose at every check up. She explained that the next step would be to remove my thyroid which I wanted to avoid so I decided to address my hyperthyroidism with Amy as well.
The first shift was that my body started to react to the medication and so eventually my doctor recommended I slowly lower the dose. Finally I was able to stop taking any medication at all and a few weeks later my thyroid levels came back clear.
Since completing treatment I feel more patient and more able to put distance between myself and situations that upset or anger me. I am far from perfect but I am so grateful, particularly in relation to motherhood, to be able to shed any baggage I can.
Living without medication is liberating in ways I had not foreseen and this process has improved the quality of life for myself and my daughter. I can’t wait to see my mother embark on her journey with Amy as well.
Maggie Federico
For 18 years of my life I had Chronic Fatigue.
That is NOT the same as feeling tired. On some days it means not having the energy to get out of bed. It means disbelief - from doctors, family and friends. It means isolation, loneliness, mourning for your previous life.
It can also mean giving up the fight UNLESS you meet Amy.
I am so grateful for the skill and assurance with which Amy guided me through an exciting and emotional journey of self-discovery. I had no idea that healing would be mental more than physical, that I was unknowingly keeping myself in a negative mind set, preventing recovery.
Amy has given me the tools to avoid ever falling down that deep and dangerous rabbit hole again. I have so many plans. The joy of being “normal” again. So match to catch up on. I’m 78 now. Every minute is precious. I have my life back.
Marisa Bouman - 12 sessions
When I first started working with Amy I had autoimmune hypothyroidism. My hair was falling out. My nails were constantly spitting. I had severe constipation. I was tired all of the time. I was on about 100 micrograms of levothyroxine. There was maybe a dozen foods I could eat on any given day, I had been conditioned to be scared of food, including some veg and I was constantly blaming myself for not being able to eliminate all the things.
I had been collecting "morning practices" and "hacks" until I would have needed to get up at 4am each day just to fit them all in. I was despairing of all of the symptoms but mostly I was convinced that nothing would/could affect lasting change.
I had spent a lot of money trying different 'protocols' and 'regimes' punishing my body for not being reliable. And still I never really believed that I could trust my body, or that I could have an impact on my own health.
I met Amy about 8 years ago, in a private yoga session, you might think "oh, of course..." But no!! those sessions were punishing and only served to disconnect me more from myself. Luckily for me, it wasn't long before we bonded over cinnamon tea and a restorative yoga class, and so when I read about her own self healing and brave new career pivot I needed to know more.
Working with Amy was transformational from the beginning. We got to work straight away and I always felt safe and excited for the next session. The sessions were full of surprises, joy and grief, releasing deep, long forgotten memories and pain, everything connecting to everything else.
Being a chronic over-thinker and a collector of "things to do to fix myself" it took a few sessions for me to really believe I could process the painful memory or stored emotion and then it was done. Working with Amy I learnt that I wasn't, and am not broken and here was a way to see the bigger picture of myself.
No magic wand here, just a gentle sloughing away of what didn't serve me, giving me back space and time to slow down and listen and learn and let go. Slowly, (but in the scheme of things rather swiftly) my mindset shifted, we worked together to release some old, stuck emotions and beliefs and now I have a repertoire of resources that I use to support me physically, emotionally and spiritually, to process whatever arises.
Since I've started working with Amy, I have stopped taking Levothyroxine, my hair has starting growing back in, my nails don't split. I can exercise without requiring endless recuperation. I no longer have to spend my weekends in bed and I don’t experience debilitating tiredness anymore. When somebody says. Do you have any allergies? at a restaurant, I gleefully and probably rather scarily say, "NO!"
One benefit I had not expected was, with a new way to listen to myself, my anxiety has practically disappeared; I am more present to my emotions and what needs attention. I have strong boundaries, and I can be clear about the things I need to take responsibility for. I have a way of listening to myself and understanding my body and I've developed a trusting relationship with myself.
Working with Amy has changed my life.
Julia Rebaudo - 9 sessions
When I first came to Amy, I was making do with a frustratingly short ‘battery’ (due to an MS diagnosis) that would often limit my day to day life. After nine sessions my battery and energy levels are fully charged, I have improved circulation and my dry skin on heels and scalp has completely resolved - I am ready and primed to take on life again in a way I didn’t imagine was possible!
I’ve known Amy for quite a few years meeting up occasionally to discuss life, love, family and health. Seeing her pop up online last year so radiant and full of the joys and clearly having conquered all her health and autoimmune issues I was intrigued to find out more.
Since an MS diagnosis a few years ago I have, so far, been successfully keeping myself symptom and damage free with an anti inflammatory approach to food and lifestyle. However, as I explained to Amy, I did suffer from a short battery, an unreliable situation where two-three days out of seven I would wake up with only two or three ‘spoons’ instead of the necessary ten to get through a day. I also found that if I overdid things I would pay for it with a few days total exhaustion and recovery time.
“What if I told you I can help you fix that and give you a full battery again?” Amy told me. “That you don’t need to be constantly managing your energy levels to get through life?”
Such a tempting prospect, I had to give it a go! My first session with Amy was a revelation. Starting with a supplements rebalance to address some dry skin issues, we dived straight into the big stuff, starting the cathartic work of releasing a range of stored emotions I’d been carrying relating to certain experiences and times in my life.
Afterwards I felt so liberated emotionally and experienced a huge rush of exciting new energy - I couldn’t wait for the next session.
In the following sessions we continued with our detective work, zeroing in on the experiences and emotions that were holding me back, releasing fresh energy as well as improving the circulation in my right hand which I often found colder than my left.
After a total of nine sessions - each visibly revitalising me both mentally and physically - exploring and peeling back the layers of unhelpful emotions I had been storing, I have found myself with a reconfigured full battery that allows me to take on life as it comes rather than having to meticulously plan out how I allocate my physical and mental energy. It is completely liberating, thankyou Amy!
Jimi Lee - 9 sessions
I came to Amy to help with my autoimmune disorder which had been affecting my skin all my life since I was a toddler. I also suffered with anxiety and both of these have now completely gone since working with her.
I started seeing Amy as I was going through a major life change and felt it would be beneficial to work with a different type of therapist. I have done my share of psychological work through talking therapies, as well as other forms of therapy such as acupuncture and massage. I didn’t fully understand the process and the details of Amy’s healing practice, but upon meeting her, I felt assured and instinctively trusted her.
It is now commonly discussed, especially through the writings of Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté, that there is a connection between illnesses and our stored, neglected emotions. I however, didn’t know how I was going to work on my autoimmune disorder. After seeing countless dermatologists, I had accepted a while ago that it was a condition I was going to have to live with as there was no cure. Though I had long suspected that my ailment was connected to my woundings and the unprocessed emotions, I wasn’t sure how my feelings were going to be dealt with.
The process with Amy was like peeling layers of an onion. There was a good amount of talking involved, though it wasn’t akin to talking therapy. Amy guided me to different times of my life which had not been previously explored, and each session was a discovery of forgotten events and beliefs I had unknowingly carried. The new revelations were then linked to the familiar ‘themes', allowing me to realise the longer threads which had become tangled as unprocessed emotions.
Once the release work started, I felt immediate emotional lightness, like the dark clouds had been uplifted. Anxiety subsided, and I began to have emotional clarity. The biggest improvement was my skin, as the rash and breakouts stopped completely and I finally felt comfortable in my body after 47 years.
To feel settled within my own body was a feeling I had not had before! And because I am feeling more secure, I am now able to accept new feelings as they are.
As the name ‘The Reconnected Self’ suggests, Amy’s unique therapeutic process has allowed me to find my somatic self and to find a connection between the mind and the body. It was like undergoing an overdue MOT.
Chiara Williams - 11 sessions
When I came to Amy I was suffering with chronic anxiety and constant overwhelm, hypothyroidism, extreme menorrhagia & anaemia (symptoms which were suppressed/ managed by an IUD) fatigue, PMDD, memory loss, and dissociative spells. As a result of the work I’ve done with Amy these are all now thankfully a thing of the past and I understand myself much better now.
I loved Amy’s central messages: that healing needn’t take a long time; that she wanted to efficiently teach others so that they could in turn help and heal themselves; that there are tools and methods we can all learn; that she had managed to heal herself and switch off her immune response during a stressful time in her life.
All of this appealed to me because it was an approach that seemed relatable and realistic, holistic and intuitive, generous and efficient. And indeed that is what it has proved to be!
I’d been unwell for a long time, not unwell enough to be hospitalised, but unwell enough to have been chronically miserable for the best part of 5 years after the birth of my daughter.
Tracing things back, I realised I’d always struggled with my immune system during periods of stress, even when I was young and fit and healthy – having post viral fatigue syndrome when in a management job I hated and later having shingles 3 times in my early thirties when running my own business. My body was clearly communicating that something was wrong, but I didn’t know what exactly to do about it.
Working with Amy
When I began working with Amy, I was in such a frazzled, tired and impatient state, consequently there was quite a lot to unpick and quite a few preconceptions to put aside in our first session, especially around accepting help and understanding the stored emotions that were blocking my progress.
In my case I had a lot of stored emotions to clear - with Amy’s guidance - before we were able to get my body functioning properly again and before I was able to tune in and learn the process.
It’s tricky to accurately describe the process of working with Amy, as it will look completely different for each individual, but what I can say is that I now have clear tools and efficient techniques I can confidently and reliably use to identify and clear things as they come up – because the work continues!
What Amy does is find out the right way for you, with you, in a way that resonates with you.
In addition to the primary physical and emotional benefits of the process, there were quite a few epiphanies along the way, for example pinpointing exactly when, how and why certain habits and beliefs originated was oddly satisfying. Filling in some of these blanks and pulling together some loose threads was a complex, layered but ultimately compassionate re-membering of my formative years and has given me a better and kinder understanding of myself.
Outcomes
My thyroid function is back to normal, I’ve managed to gradually titrate my thyroid medication to zero and stop my HRT patches completely whilst feeling more energetic and healthier than ever before.
The anxiety and obsessive thinking has melted away to such an extent that I almost forgot to mention it! No amount of CBT, meditation or other therapies ever touched the sides of it in the past.
And it’s not just a temporary fix; I have the means to keep myself in balance now: I have learnt know how to ‘check in’ with myself when new physical or emotional problems arise and how to recalibrate as needed.
photo credit Jay Rechsteiner
“My thyroid function is back to normal, I’ve managed to gradually titrate my thyroid medication to zero and stop my HRT patches completely whilst feeling more energetic and healthier than ever before.”
Jill Pearson, Minnesota - 8 sessions
I have had sickness since I was born being deaf and having lots of surgeries and trauma. I have never been really healthy and after 50 years, I feel great for the first time!
I started seeing Amy. I had never even heard of this healing before. But I was desperate because I tried everything else, including brain retraining, supplements etc and my healing was minimal. I never realized she could help me in the way she did. I had MCS, IBS, mold illness, candida overgrowth, fibromyalgia, nerve damage and brain damage from a car accident, and TONS of food sensitivities. I was around 95 pounds when I started this healing, I am now 105 pounds!
My MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) is COMPLETELY gone along with ALL the other stuff. But I was basically told MCS can’t heal. MCS is where you react to almost everything. Like smells of soap, cleaning products, people's hair products ext. I was pretty much homebound and didn't let anyone over really unless they were completely scent-free. And even then, I still always still got sick from something.
I was not getting any sleep because I was waking up all night from constant stomach pain for hours as if I was in labor, and my health was going down the tubes. That is now completely healed. No more pain, no more illness!
She also taught me how to ask myself what I need, and taught me how to help my child. I told her from the beginning I have a learning disability and didn't think I could learn this stuff. I couldn't believe how quickly I caught on and learned. Very life-changing. I am now eating any food I want. I am now able to go into actual crowds again.
I'm so thankful for Amy helping me. I was having so many problems, I was up all night with digestive and pain issues. My life will be so different now!