For therapists ready to receive as skillfully as they give
Body-based, energy-informed clinical work for the practitioners who hold space for everyone else.
Trained In &
Informed By:
DCILINPSY
HERTFORDSHIRE
HCPC
REGISTERED
ENERGY
PSYCHOTHERAPY
CONSCIOUS
CONNECTED
BREATHWORK
IFS INFORMED
PARTS WORK
MEET DR. CORAL
A clinical psychologist for the people who hold everyone else
I'm Dr Coral Westaway, a Doctor of Clinical Psychology with 20 years of experience, integrating clinical psychology with energy psychotherapy, somatic practice, conscious connected breathwork, and IFS. I work with therapists and helpers who are done with chronic over giving and ready to reconnect with their innate capacity to receive as skilfully as they give.
This isn't traditional therapy. It goes deeper, into the body, the energy system, and the patterns that have lived there long before you qualified. Through gentle but powerful embodied work, we'll explore where overgiving began, release what no longer serves you, and build a life that finally flows both ways.
Having navigated cancer five years ago, I understand the courage it takes to truly prioritise yourself. I walk alongside you with warmth, experience, and deep care.
YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS...
You matter as much as everyone you care for
You understand trauma and attachment deeply. You show up wholeheartedly, you name what others can't, you hold what others won't. And yet, something still feels stuck - your own needs quietly wait whilst everyone else's are met.
This is not a personal failing. it's a professional pattern, and it has its own physiology. The work we'll do together meets it there.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Four ways to work
Energy-Psychology 1:1 Therapy
£120
ONLINE - 60 MIN SESSIONS
For therapists carrying the weight of holding space. Body-based, gentle yet powerful.
The Receiving Intensive
£555
IN PERSON - SOMERSET
A full day of immersive body-based and energetic work. For when weekly therapy isn't the shape of what you need.
The Receiving Revolution
ONLINE - 7 SESSION GROUP
A seven-week group programme for therapists ready to move together beyond chronic over giving.
Clinical Supervision
£120
ONLINE - MONTHLY
Supervision that goes beyond case management- into your patterns, your energy, your edges.
FROM THE WORK
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Questions, answered
Not seeing your question? Get in touch. Tell me what's bringing you here, and I'll let you know if this feels like the right next step for you.
How do I know if this is for me?
This is for you if you're a therapist, psychologist, counsellor, or body/breath worker who gives brilliantly to others and struggles to receive for yourself. You understand your patterns intellectually, you've done the training, maybe the therapy too and yet your body still says yes when you mean no. If that's familiar, you're in the right place.
What is chronic overgiving, really?
It's not a personality trait or a time-management problem. It's a pattern held in the body, shaped by early experience and years of professional training to attend to others first. That's why insight alone rarely shifts it: you can understand it perfectly and still find yourself back in the same loop.
How is this different from traditional talking therapy?
Talking therapy works with insight: understanding the pattern, where it began, why it makes sense. For many of you, that understanding is already there.
My work starts from a different question: what happens when insight alone hasn't been enough to shift the pattern? I bring together clinical psychology with body, breath, and energy work, so that what you already understand intellectually can be moved through.
Do you accept private health insurance?
Yes, I can accept and work with Bupa and Axa private insurance.
I've already done years of therapy. Why would this be different?
Therapy can be really value for developing understanding. What this adds is working directly where the pattern lives: your body, your energy, your system.
This work is gentle, but not slow. Going straight to the body and energy system meets the pattern at its root, rather than talking around it: often shifting in a single session what months of talking might only describe.
With over 20 years of clinical experience and thousands of clients supported, I've seen this route work again and again where words alone couldn't quite reach.
Do I need any experience with energy, body or breathwork?
None at all. Most of the therapists I work with are curious about this territory but haven't had much hands-on experience with it yet. That's completely normal, and where we begin.
Where in Somerset are the in-person intensives held?
Based 20 minutes South of Bristol, in the countryside at my home.
FREE RESOURCE
The Conscious Therapist's Energy Reset
Quick, gentle practices designed for therapists, psychologists and professional helpers who are drained, overwhelmed or struggling to switch off at the end of the day.
Reclaim your energy, stay grounded and bring your best self to every client, even on your busiest days.
What you’ll get:
Morning reset: Arrive fully in your body and set energetic boundaries
Midday reset: Clear what’s not yours to carry forward
Evening release: Let go of the day and move into your life with ease
Perfect if you often finish work feeling heavy, tired, or unable to switch off.
