About With Our Wisdom
Why - With Our Wisdom
With our Wisdom evolved from my work as a therapist, working with people on their healing journeys. It became apparent to me that client’s had an innate wisdom and the capacity to heal, grow and reconnect with who they truly are.
I saw that healing begins when we feel safely seen, supported, and compassionately aligned with our mind- body wisdom.
My work brings together psychotherapy, nervous-system awareness, therapeutic touch, compassionate presence, and mind – body centred approaches to support healing, resilience, and personal growth.
I aim to offer a calm and supportive space where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and gently move towards greater wellbeing, authenticity and wholeness
I have grown and evolved into this work—
one experience at a time, for over thirty years.
Amanda Watson
Psychotactile Psychotherapist
How This Work Began
Over 30 years ago, as a newly qualified aromatherapist and massage therapist, I then thought that I was there to fix people. I would ease the aches and pains, and clients would leave feeling better. I began to notice some would come back with same pain, same patterns – and then I began to understand something profound: I wasn’t there to fix anyone. The body holds more than muscle and bone. It holds history.
The Body Tells The Truth
As I worked with people through massage, deeper things began to surface. Old pain. Childhood memories. Relationship struggles. The body, when it finally feels safe, tells the truth. And I realised I needed to be able to meet people there — not just in their physical body, but in their whole self.
My Professional Development included Thai Massage, Shiatsu, Kinesiology, NLP, Counselling, Reiki, Reflexology, Balinese Massage, Meditation, Massage for People with Cancer, Massage for people with Dementia, Pregnancy Massage, Baby Massage, Mindfulness, Body Psychotherapy, working Relationally in a Trauma Informed way and much more.
I found No Hands Massage, where everything I had been learning for decades finally came together: body, mind, emotion, energy, spirit and relationship — all held safely, collaboratively, with the client as the expert of their own life.
What I Began To Understand
I travelled to many different places across the world, continuing my learning and I discovered that everything I thought I knew to be real, could be entirely wrong in a different context, i.e. we may be looking at the same thing and yet we can have a completely different narrative for what we’re seeing.
As well as continuing my professional development, I continue to learn from each of my clients and life itself.
Humility & Openness
became one of my greatest teachers and I understand how important it is to meet people where they are at.
I worked with young people excluded from mainstream schools, labelled ‘difficult’ or ‘naughty’, whose behaviour made complete sense once you knew their stories.
I supported families navigating domestic violence and trauma.
I became a mother of 2 amazing young people, 1 of whom has a disability and this introduced me to the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
I learned that connection, love, advocacy, and patience are their own kind of therapy.
Integrated Therapies with Psychotactile Psychotherapy for the Whole Being
When COVID stopped massage therapists from working, I used the time to complete a four-year training in Psychotactile Psychotherapy — the natural culmination of everything. Now, when a client’s body releases something it has been holding for years, I can be fully there with them. Not to fix, Not to lead, But to work collaboratively helping my clients to find their way home to whom they truly are.
VALUES
Safety
Before anything else can shift it’s important you feel physically and emotionally safe; with presence, your own pace and a safe environment
Empowerment
I don’t take power from you by ‘fixing’ you. Instead, I help you find and trust your own power, your own knowing, your own truth.
Wholeness
I see and work with YOU as a whole person; body, mind, emotion, energy and spirit.
Compassion
I aim to offer deep, non-judgmental care for you when we meet, whatever you carry, however you arrive.
Authenticity
With over 30 years of learning, I know that you are the expert of you and I hold space for you to find & connect with your own innate wisdom.
If this approach resonates with you, you’re welcome to get in touch.