Helen Mantell

Helen Mantell

Hello, I'm Helen and I'm delighted you've found your way here.

This seems like a good place to tell you a little about myself and what led me to doing the work I do today.

I grew up in West Cornwall in the 80s with a lot of freedom to spend time outside. Most of it was spent out on the land with dogs and horses, often alone, moving through places that felt alive long before I had any language for why.

That shaped me and opened a deep connection with the landscape, far more than I realised at the time.

In my mid-twenties, I became seriously ill. Everything slowed down, and the things I'd been able to filter out or ignore became much harder to manage. Sensitivity, awareness, and experiences I couldn't explain became louder, and there was no real way to push them aside.

What followed wasn't a quick shift or a neat turning point; I spent years immersed in my own healing, trying to understand what I was experiencing and how to work with it properly.

That led me into formal training in clinical hypnotherapy, trauma-informed coaching, EFT, naturopathic nutrition and other therapeutic approaches.

Alongside that, I trained extensively in energy healing and spiritual practice. I was lucky enough to be apprenticed in energy medicine and wisecraft with a Cornish wisewoman, which shaped my work in a very different way.

I also had a series of direct experiences with the unexplained that I wasn't prepared to dismiss. That took me further into this work, including being taken under the wing of a local, West Country healer who specialised in spirit release.

That work stayed with me. It led to a deep interest in restoring harmony, not only within a person, but within the spaces people live and work in, and in the land itself.

Over time, these different strands came together. My work is shaped by clinical understanding, long-term practice, and a way of working that is rooted in place, relationship, and direct experience. Cornwall is part of that. The land here, and the traditions that belong to it, inform how I pay attention and how I work.

I now work with individuals, as well as training and supervising practitioners who want to develop their capacity to work at depth.

Most of the people I work with already know there is more going on than they've been able to fully get hold of so far. What matters is whether something is able to shift, and how that shift is held.

Outside of my work, I'm usually back on the land, at ancient sites, or at home cooking, tending our gorgeous patch of off-grid land, reading or working ritual. For me, it's all part of the same rhythm.