I will speak your language. Whether you’re most comfortable talking in terms of the arts and creativity, psychology, or spirituality, I see my role as the same, to facilitate self-expression, health, and happiness.

It’s the art of translation: knowing how to drop the most useful words in, to thus enable the most powerful, profound and beautiful words to rise out.

I Offer Guidance To Others In The Following Ways…

• Manuscript and screenplay editing: from initial conception, to a product ready to be put out into the world

• As a keynote speaker.

• Bespoke support for writers and speakers including the year-long Mentoring Scheme for word-crafters.

• Bespoke psychotherapeutic support.

• Online, and real word group sessions, workshops, and courses. See this page.

• Via my work on the wild side - Wild Words, and How To Live a Wild Life.

Scroll down this page for more on these options.

I’d also be delighted to hear from you if you work in a complimentary arena and are interested in a collaborative project.

Read more about Bridget’s approach.

Contact me about any or all of the above via the form at the bottom of this page.

“We’re always guided and always doing it right – I found Bridget’s words rebalancing, revitalising, liberating, and empowering”

London School of Economics and Political Science

“She spiced an important but intellectual subject with humour and humanity. I was captivated”

Sarah, Bristol UK

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Keynote Speaker

Using well researched material taken from my upcoming book, my talks are a delicious fusion of evolutionary psychology, conceptual metaphor, embodied cognition, sacred poetry and body-based therapies. They are offered with warmth, humour, and are peppered with case studies, and literary quotes, as well as examples from my own life. I offer examples of ‘wild functioning’ from my times working in psychiatric hospital settings, in the film industry, with wordsmiths through my company Wild Words, and the ‘weirder’ stuff I’ve done, like living on beaches in a small tent for prolonged periods of time.

I quote liberally, from memory. I have a passion for beautiful quotations, and their power, not only to librate us, but to show us that we’re already free.

I reference a broad range of western psychotherapeutic traditions (Freud, Gestalt, Jung, CBT), as well as Buddhist and eastern thought. Other influences on my work also get a mention, including George Monbiot (Feral), Robert Macfarlane (The Wild Places, The Old Ways), author Sara Pascoe (Animal), poet Mary Oliver, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, and biophysicist/psychotherapist Peter Levine.

During interactive talks I invite attendees to undertake a series of small body awareness and playful written ‘experiments’, to get an experiential handle on the theories for themselves. In longer courses these build to a systematic path that can be applied to all life’s activities.

Whatever common interest or occupation your organisation represents, as an after-dinner speaker I can offer a new perspective, a profound and humorous take on re-wilding precisely applied to your world.

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Creative Writing and Speaking Skills

I’m a mentor, and editor. I work in all genres of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, with individuals and groups of writers wanting to improve their craft.

I’ve worked with high-level United Nations employees, as well as celebrated writers, therapists, and film industry figures.

I thrive on helping those who have been voiceless, to find their voice.

As a former screenwriter, I’m strong on structure, and getting you from the beginning to the end of projects.

With a nod to my psychotherapeutic training, I have a particular interest in the depth psychology of characters (real or fictitious). How does the background and trauma of a character manifest in life choices, behaviour and appearance?

With another nod, this time to comparative theology, I recognise the value of a sense of connection to source, ancestry, something bigger than our small selves.

I’m a support (and sometime ghost writer) who brings all the tools of a counsellor and psychotherapist to negotiate the blocks and fragilities, enabling people to tell their stories, and have them heard.

I enable communication of individuals and companies via clear, powerful messaging across all their platforms of engagement.

I help French authors to find the most appropriate words in English.

Whenever I can, I welcome wordsmiths and lovers of language, to the South of France and bombard them with beautiful quotations.

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Psychotherapy

With an MA in the psychotherapeutic uses of the arts, as well as trauma training and counselling qualifications, I work with clients interested in utilising the power of body, movement, metaphor, contact with nature, meditation, and the arts.

I have a broad knowledge base of psychotherapeutic theory: Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Jungian, Freudian. I bring the theoretical basis that will best suit the client’s situation to the work.

I’m informed by thirty years of spiritual exploration and meditation practice. I draw on Buddhism, Non-Duality, Yoga, Focusing, Shamanic Practice, Zen Arts, Yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi, 5Rhythms and Biodanza.

Somatic Experiencing guides my body-based approach to trauma work.

I am often approached by those wanting to utilise writing, voice and storytelling for healing.

As a French resident for twelve years and with a tri-lingual son, themes of identity, language, and living abroad are close to my heart, and I often work in those arenas with clients.

I work that the client can realise a sense of safety and goodness in themselves.

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Spiritual Practice

I like the structure of prayers, meditations, and spiritual enquiry, their linguistic beauty, and their effect on peoples’ lives. I like throwing quirky elements into the traditional mix and bridging the gaps between different traditions and ways of thought.

Talk to me about facilitating spiritual group practice…

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The Year-Long Writers’ Mentoring Scheme

The Mentoring Scheme runs over twelve months. It has a rolling intake, so you can start any month. The scheme is composed of twelve hour-long sessions (one a month), via Skype/What’s App/Messenger/Zoom, by telephone, or in person. The process is tailored to individual needs. It offers:

• Writing skills

• Goal-setting/practical advice

• Support to manage any blocks that come up during the creative process

• Learning to hear, and building confidence in your 'natural storyteller'

• Detailed handouts to support subjects covered

• A mid-month email 'hello' to check how you're doing

• Optional experiments (exercises) to undertake between the sessions

• Written feedback can be offered in lieu of meeting time, if appropriate

More information can be found here. Contact me via the form at the bottom of this page.

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On The Wild Side…

Wild Words

Exploring new cityscapes, wandering in landscapes, and larking about in nature; revelling in the awakening of my senses, and bodily experience; playing with the words that arose. It began as the fun thing I did when I wasn't doing the real, important writing. Then I realised it was the possibly most real, important, and liberating, of all. Then I wanted to do it with other people...

We each have a storyteller at the core of our being. How can we track and liberate that? This is where the Wild Words exploration begins...

On the Wild Words platform I enjoy sharing wild-related quotes, and beautiful images. I’m inspired by conversations with celebrated word-crafters.

I adapt techniques from many sources (Evolutionary, Arts and Body-based Psychotherapy; Non-duality; Buddhism; Zen; Christianity; Somatic Experiencing; Yoga; Qigong; Focusing; Shamanic Practice; 5Rhythms) to offer enlivening mini-experiments to aid you on your word-crafting path.

The Wild Self Project - How To Live A Wild Life

Given it’s an indisputable scientific fact that we are, biologically, mammals, how come the words ‘you’re an animal’ are (except sometimes in a sexual context!), an insult of the worst kind?

What is the fundamental misunderstanding about our animal nature that is stopping us surviving and thriving?

How can we take advantage of the innate guidance inside of ourselves? How can we learn to spot the messages that are so under our noses that we fail to see them?

Why is ‘letting it all out’ not the same as being truly wild? And why should we be wary of it?

What is the important distinction between instinct and intuition?

What are the dangers of confusing creativity and spontaneity?

In what ways is ‘re-wilding’ a misunderstood concept?

What’s the Achilles heel affecting all our dialogues about climate change? How can we save the planet?

I have a passion for exploding the myths that keep us repressing those parts of ourselves that we consider ‘wild’ and ‘animal’, and prevent us, and the planet, from not only surviving, but thriving. In talks and workshops I present a specific, evidenced route to healthy, happy functioning via building a relationship with the animal that is an integral part of each of us.

Work with the staff of environmental organisations focuses on:

• Specific, do-able practices to re-connect to the nourishment of the ‘inner wilds’ to support you in their work

• Creating held space for individuals to bring into awareness, process, and safely express feelings of helplessness, guilt, anger, grief, as well as recognise hope, joy, and love.

• Speaking and creative writing techniques to enable staff to have contactful, impactful, engaging and persausive conversations with funders and the public.

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