About Laura Stoddart
Shadow Work Practitioner online & in Totnes
Healing The Shadow practitioner qualified 2021
Assistant, then Trainer, on the two-year Healing The Shadow Practitioner Training with Marianne Hill 2022 - 2026
Training and Experience
Supervision, Ethics and Insurance
Shadow Work is not currently recognised by the well known large accreditation bodies, however the Healing The Shadow Organisation has a list of requirments and produces an annually updated directory of practitioners who are meeting these requirements (you can see this list here - Healing The Shadow practitioners )
I am professionally insured, with an up to date enhanced DBS.
I have regular professional supervision, including peer supported supervision.
I engage with ongoing CPD (including continued personal shadow work).
I work within the Healing The Shadow Code of Ethics (HTS code of ethics)
I work within the Healing The Shadow therapeutic approach guidelines ( HTS therapeutic approach)
My personal shadow work journey began when I joined my first shadow work weekend group workshop in 2013.
Since becoming a parent in 2004 I had tried a number of therapeutic and healing modalities, including parenting groups, support groups, energetic healing and latterly Core Process Therapy. Whilst these had helped somewhat, I still felt somewhat unable to find a way through challenges in my personal life - in particular the parenting of my 3 young children and the setting of boundaries. After years of working on these issues, the difficulties still felt largely beyond my capacity to change.
From 2013 onwards I participated in many shadow work workshops and hours of one to one work. This work, alongside the 2yr Practitioner Training (see below) - a course which includes a significant amount of individual personal work - has allowed me to find significant positive change in my life and some deep emotional healing. I experience joy, honesty and connection with others in a way that was not available to me previously and in addition I hold appropriate and heathful boundaries which help to keep myself and those around me, safe.
My 3 children are considerably happier and more emotionally secure for the work I have done, and some familial cycles of generational trauma and patterns have been resolved.
How I came to this work
Resources
I work with Seen & Heard, a charity which supports the wellbeing of current and former pupils of boarding and independent day schools and their families.
The Healing The Shadow 2yr Practitioner Training is run by Marianne Hill, who is a highly skilled and experienced practitioner as well as being the author of Healing The Shadow - you can read more about Marianne here - & Rod Boothroyd, also a highly skilled and experienced practitioner and also author of Warrior, Magician, Lover, King. You can read more about Rod, including his latest Inner King workshop, here.
I also recommend Woman Within UK . This is a not-for-profit community of women offering programmes to help other women know and embrace all parts of themselves.
