Mel Shearsmith

Coach

I am a Therapeutic Thinking Environment and somatically informed coach and rebellious creative for neurodivergent and collapse-aware humans.

My history as a somatic movement practitioner and a neurodivergent woman has informed this practice and is deeply grounded in relationship with the wisdom of the body.

I offer spaces of exquisite sanctuary; more slow space, regulation and deep care to tend to your grief, outrage and overwhelm. This is a tender and deepening practice for bodies who identify as neurodivergent or sensitive so we can build together, in practice and relationship, your ability to regulate your nervous system in response to the needs of your empathic, felt and sensorial experience in the world.

I provide a robust and compassionate container for neurodivergent and collapse-aware humans that cultivates care and repair that is uniquely shaped to you, your nervous system and your needs. This practice is patient, and informed by Polyvagal theory to support the re-connection and re-integration of your innate intelligences; your body, felt intelligence, intuition and your sensorial needs.

I am fiercely passionate about supporting the expression of difficult emotions that have been shamed, belittled and numbed in response to our earth grief and related inequalities and societal injustices. I believe it’s an essential competence to enhance our grief competence so we can come back into a relational field with the world.

My work and ethical landscape is informed by Francis Weller’s grief work, The Work That Reconnects, Theory U, ecopsychology and eco-anxiety, Buddhist and Jungian psychology, Polyvagal theory and a range of neurodivergent informed embodiment modalities.

Specialisms: Eco-anxiety, grief, shadow work, neurodivergent overwhelm and re-integration of core, embodied self-trust.

Other training includes: Grief Ritual Training with Francis Weller (Centre for Climate Psychology), Climate Cafe Grief Circle Facilitator Training (Climate Psychology Alliance), Climate Coaching (AoEC), Through the Door (Climate Psychology Alliance), Theory U (U-Lab: Leading from the Emerging Future, MIT) and The Work that Reconnects.