Bio – Dr Charlie Sayer 

I have always been fascinated with the human condition and our existence as relational beings participating in a web of life with one another, the natural world and the cosmos. In the late nineties I studied philosophy as an undergraduate and was most drawn to existential, transcendental and integrative thinkers such as Satre, Thoreau and Wilber who emphasised the self-actualising, spiritual and transcendental potential of humans. As a post-graduate I studied medicine and have gathered 20 years of experience in healthcare and healing. During my career in the NHS as a hospital consultant, my yearning to help people who were suffering felt severely constrained by the western biomedical model and the increasingly protocol driven, ‘one-size fits all’ approach of this paradigm. This led me own my own much needed personal healing journey and a search for an integrated holistic approach that struck at the roots of sickness and healing. I have explored a broad range of psycho-spiritual and holistic models to expand on the limited allopathic approaches that were available for the symptoms and disconnection associated with:

– Complex PTSD
– Attachment trauma
– Burnout
– Stress
– Addictive behaviours
– Anxiety
– Depression
– Fatigue
– Chronic pain

I embarked on a long experiential initiation in European shamanism and somatic / transpersonal therapies alongside further professional training and now offer a holistic approach for individuals, couples and groups as a shamanic practitioner; therapist; workshop and therapy group facilitator; and ceremonial space-holder. 

I am working at the intersection of physical and psycho-spiritual sickness; nature, ritual and animistic based healing practices; internal family systems, interactional somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy; and the power of preparing for, experiencing and integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness.