Embrace Your Roots, Discover Your Wings: Helping you find your balance

Therapeutic support for adults experiencing challenging times

Welcome to Roots & Wings, where my aim is always to empower you to navigate your own life and transition your challenges with confidence and compassion.

Therapeutic Techniques That Help You Navigate Your Life

Ready to Move Beyond the Uncomfortable?

That feeling of discomfort—the one you can’t quite name—is often the most powerful signal that you’re ready for a change. I specialise in helping adults who are experiencing that precise sense of unease, whether it stems from historic trauma, current relationship struggles, or simply a lack of direction, I’m here to offer you.

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  • Testimonial

    “As a former headteacher navigating the immense pressures of leadership, I found myself burdened by deep-seated anxieties and emotional traumas. Working with Melika was truly transformative. Her exceptional skill as an EFT therapist helped me not only process these challenges but also reclaim my sense of calm, clarity, and resilience.”

    Melika’s approach is nothing short of extraordinary. She is insightful, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the unique needs of her clients. Her professionalism and thoroughness immediately put me at ease, while her up-to-date knowledge of EFT and related practices ensured that every session was both effective and empowering.
    What sets Melika apart is her ability to create a safe, nurturing space where profound emotional breakthroughs can occur. She guided me through each step with care and precision, ensuring that I felt supported and understood throughout the process.
    I cannot recommend Melika highly enough to anyone in a high-pressure role or seeking relief from emotional struggles. Her work has been life-changing, and I am endlessly grateful for her expertise and dedication.”
    Catherine Cox
    Former Headteacher

My practice

My practice is centred on the powerful belief that you already have the wisdom to heal your own life. Sometimes, what you truly need is an experienced ear to listen and help you work it all through. If you’re tired of feeling uncertain and you’re ready to actively engage in building a more purposeful or peaceful future, I invite you to join me for a dedicated one-to-one session.

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I use my collective skills to help you focus your attention and quieten the noise of everyday life, this allows you to experience a deeper sense of self-discovery and personal growth.
Whether you’re feeling a lack of direction, struggling with a crisis, battling anxiety, or simply craving a moment to breathe, Roots & Wings provides the space and support you need to help you reconnect with your authentic self, and find your balance once more.

Different Therapeutic Techniques that Support Everyone

Therapy Tailored Just For You

In the midst of life’s powerful shifts, it’s easy to feel disconnected. My work as a practitioner creates a sanctuary where you can pause, reflect, and begin to reconnect with your true self. I use a combination of Counselling, [EFT] Emotional Freedom Technique, and Hypnotherapy to support you in finding answers to troubling questions, moving past historic upsets or traumas, ridding yourself of habits or phobia’s which limit your enjoyment of life, and managing different aspects of your health or wellbeing.

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Discover the power of taking control of your life

Therapy offers a powerful and accessible way to invest in your well-being. We all have moments where we need a dedicated listening ear, advice, or the space to express our feelings.

At Roots & Wings you’ll benefit from a combination of clinically proven techniques designed to move you quickly past feeling stuck, and give you the clarity and confidence to move into your next chapter.

What techniques do I use?

Emotional Freedom Technique

EFT, or Tapping, is a simple, proven technique that uses the same energy points recognised in Eastern medicine, like Acupuncture. Instead of needles, we use gentle finger-tapping on points on the face and upper torso.

We combine this gentle tapping with focused conversation to quickly hone in on the negative thoughts and uncomfortable emotions you’re experiencing.

The tapping creates a direct connection with the brain’s emotional control centre (the amygdala, or ‘fight/flight’ response). This process helps to release and neutralise the emotional charge behind your discomfort.

The result? You quickly regain a feeling of control, focus, and calm, allowing your thinking brain to find creative solutions and solve problems once more.

EFT offers you a unique way to manage your symptoms and negative experiences outside of the therapy room as well as during our sessions. Once learned, you are able to immediately apply the technique to any troubling situation and benefit from the proven calm this approach provides.

EFT is an evidence-based practice with a growing body of research supporting its efficacy across multiple psychological and physiological conditions:

  • Clinically Proven for Anxiety & Stress: Research has shown EFT to be highly effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety and lowering the body’s primary stress hormone, cortisol (Source 1). This helps you find immediate, measurable calm.
  • Healing Past Trauma: EFT is recognized as an evidence-based treatment for various forms of trauma, including PTSD. It helps your brain quickly diminish the emotional impact of distressing memories, allowing you to reclaim your present (Source 2).
  • Superior Results for Depression: Studies comparing EFT to conventional treatments have found that EFT substantially reduces symptoms of depression, often at a higher rate and with fewer sessions than traditional talk therapies (Source 3).

Sources

  1. Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Improves Multiple Physiological Markers of Health (PMC6381429)
  2. Emotional freedom techniques for treating post traumatic stress disorder: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1195286)
  3. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Nonrandomized Trials of Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for the Treatment of Depression (ResearchGate)

Hypnotherapy

The National Council for Hypnotherapy describes this form of therapy as a transformative tool for managing stress and anxiety and promoting lasting resilience and emotional balance. It is shown to effectively support a wide range of conditions, ailments, and issues, and said to foster a sense of calm and inner strength.

Hypnotherapy is a state of focused attention that allows you to access and update your inner programming, making positive change feel easier and more natural. This is not about relinquishing control; it’s about taking control of your inner world to create real shifts in your physical and emotional well-being.

Our brains are incredible organs. They have the capacity to grow, change, and rewire themselves. With Hypnotherapy, we are simply guiding this powerful process to the areas of change you wish to see, enhancing and shaping healthier patterns and emotional responses.

Hypnotherapy is Backed by Clinical Science:

  • Powerful Relief for Anxiety and Panic: Hypnosis is proven to significantly help reduce anxiety symptoms and panic attacks. It helps you relax the nervous system and develop healthier coping mechanisms, empowering you with greater emotional control (Source 1)
  • Highly Effective for Gut-Health (IBS): Gut-directed hypnotherapy is widely recognised as an effective treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Studies show it can sustainably reduce painful physical symptoms like bloating, pain, and digestive distress (Source 2).
  • Sustainably Improves Sleep Quality: By promoting deep relaxation and targeting underlying stress or anxiety, hypnotherapy is a promising, drug-free treatment to help reduce insomnia and improve overall sleep quality, allowing for full mental and physical recovery (Source 3).

Sources

  1. Powerful Relief for Anxiety and Panic: Valentine, K. E., Milling, L. S., Clark, L. J., & Moriarty, C. L. (2019). The efficacy of hypnosis as a treatment for anxiety: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31251710/
  2. Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Source: Systematic Review published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology—referenced in Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy) https://academyofclinicalhypnotherapy.com/hypnotherapy-for-the-treatment-of-irritable-bowel-syndrome/
  3. Hypnosis Intervention Effects on Sleep Outcomes: A Systematic Review (Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Hypnosis Intervention Effects on Sleep Outcomes: A Systematic Review PubMed Central PMC5786848)
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