Dragonfly therapist

13/02/2026

New blog: Chinese New Year 2026 🧧

As I get ready to celebrate Chinese New Year with my family, I've been reflecting on what this new cycle might bring.

The Fire Horse is often described as fast, fiery, and intense... but in my latest blog, I'm offering a more grounded perspective on what this year might mean - and why it won't land the same way for everyone.

Read more here:

A grounded reflection on Chinese New Year traditions and the Year of the Fire Horse. Explore symbolism, individuality, and how to meet the year with clarity and discernment.

11/02/2026

06/02/2026

🌿 New Menopause Support Offering 🌿

I’m really pleased to share something new I’m offering for women navigating peri‑menopause, menopause, or post‑menopause.

A 6‑week Hypnotherapy for Menopause Support programme - a gentle space to explore weekly themes such as relaxation, sleep, confidence, identity, nutrition, energy, and integration.

This support is available 1:1 or as a small online group, with the first group beginning Tuesday 24th February.

I’ve popped the flyer below with a brief overview.

If you’d like to join, learn more, or ask any questions, feel free to message me or visit my website:
https://dragonflytherapist.uk/hypnotherapy-menopause-support

Structured menopause support combining evidence-informed hypnotherapy, education, and practical tools. Six-week programme available individually or in a small therapeutic group, online or in Berkhamsted.

29/01/2026

🌿 Hypnotherapy for Menopause Support Group – Beta Round 🌿

I’m opening a 6‑week online hypnotherapy group for women navigating peri‑menopause, menopause, or post‑menopause, beginning at the end of February.

Across six weekly sessions, we’ll use hypnotherapy, grounding practices, and gentle group discussion to support:
✨ relaxation & stress reduction
✨ sleep
✨ confidence & identity
✨ diet & nutrition
✨ activity & energy
✨ gratitude & integration

This is a beta round, so the contribution is just £60 for the full programme in exchange for some constructive feedback.

To find out more, please visit my website:

Structured menopause support combining evidence-informed hypnotherapy, education, and practical tools. Six-week programme available individually or in a small therapeutic group, online or in Berkhamsted.

25/01/2026

💫The Dragon Mother's Embrace: Ember Circle - A Small, Grounded Group for Inner Clarity & Reconnection 💫

The Ember Circle is a small, 9-week group journey for people who feel in a season of change, questioning, or quiet awakening - and want a grounded, supportive space to reconnect with themselves.

This isn’t about fixing or becoming someone new.
It’s about slowing down, listening inward, and finding steadiness again, with others walking a similar path.

Inside the Circle, we’ll explore:
⭐️Reconnecting with yourself and understanding your inner patterns
⭐️Grounding in the body and calming the nervous system
⭐️Learning to trust your inner guidance without bypassing real life
⭐️Weaving insight into everyday life so it actually lasts

The group is intentionally small (4–5 people), so there’s space to be seen, heard, and supported. Even if only one person joins, the Circle will still run - you’ll receive my full presence and guidance throughout the 9 weeks.

⌛️ We begin in one week - starting Tuesday 3rd February
✨ Guided by Vanessa, Dragonfly Therapist
🔗 Learn more & join here:

Join the Ember Circle of The Dragon Mother’s Embrace - a gentle 9-week group journey for spiritual awakening, grounding, and inner clarity. A safe, supportive space for soul-led transformation, guided by Vanessa.

12/01/2026

🔥The Dragon Mother's Embrace: Ember Circle ~ starting Tuesday 3rd February

The Ember Circle is a 9-week journey designed to support reconnection, grounding, and inner clarity - especially if you're in a season of change or awakening.

Here's what we'll explore together:

Weeks 1-2: Reconnecting & Understanding Yourself
We begin by slowing down and orienting. You'll reconnect with yourself, your inner world, and explore your Soul Plan - a framework to understand your strengths, challenges, and natural rhythm.

Weeks 3-4: Grounding, Stillness & Inner Energy
We focus on grounding in the body, calming the nervous system, and learning how to access stillness and inner steadiness.

Weeks 5-6: Inner Guidance & Trust
Through guided journeys and reflection, we explore intuition, inner guidance, and how to trust what's arising within you - without forcing or bypassing real life.

Weeks 7-9: Integration & Everyday Life
Focusing on integration - weaving insights into daily life so the work actually lasts. We close by anchoring what's shifted, reflecting on your journey, and gently orienting toward the future with more clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.

This isn't about becoming someone else.
This is about coming back into relationship with yourself - safely, slowly, and with support.

This is a small group (4–5 people), meeting weekly, with space to be seen, heard, and supported - without pressure or performance.

If you feel the pull to begin - this may be your doorway.

For more information and to join:
https://dragonflytherapist.uk/embercircle

Join the Ember Circle of The Dragon Mother’s Embrace - a 9-week spiritual group journey guided by Vanessa /Threnai. Explore dragon energy, soul awakening, and deep embodiment in a small sacred group. Includes weekly live sessions, a 1:1 Soul Plan Reading, guided meditations, and ongoing mentorship...

10/01/2026

🌿Honouring the Menopause Journey with Hypnotherapy

I’m expanding my practice through specialist CPD training in Hypnotherapy for Menopause Support - a modality that honours the emotional, physical, and energetic shifts women experience during this powerful life phase.

This training is deepening my ability to support women with emotional balance, sleep, stress, confidence, and the inner recalibration that menopause often invites.

I truly believe this work can be profoundly empowering. As I integrate this training, I’ll be offering sessions for women who wish to navigate peri-menopause, menopause, or post-menopause with greater ease, clarity, and inner strength.

If you feel called to explore this support, you’re very welcome to reach out 💜

07/01/2026

💫Collective Card of the Year: Queen of Cups 💫

For the collective card of the year, I drew the Queen of Cups from the Tarot of Dragons.

The image shows a blue dragon perched above a grey sea, sheltering a sapphire egg beneath her wing. A mystic grail sits before her, and from it rises a dragon made of steam - ephemeral, shifting, dreamlike. Below, a whale breaks the surface of the water. Above, the sky is clouded, but sunlight is beginning to push through.

⭐️Let's explore the meaning woven through each element:

Traditionally, the Queen of Cups is the archetype of emotional wisdom, intuition, compassion, and sacred sensitivity.
Here, she isn't submerged in the emotional realm, but perched above it - witnessing the tides with clarity. She reminds us of emotional sovereignty and the ability to hold space without being consumed.
~ Stay emotionally present, but not entangled
~ Lead with compassion - especially toward yourself

The sapphire egg suggests there is something important we are carrying into the year - a part of ourselves that needs protection, patience, and steady nurturing.
~ Take care of what matters most to you

The misty dragon rising from the mystic grail speaks to the unseen becoming seen. Guidance this year may come through subtly, quietly, through intuition, dreams, or gentle inner nudges. The Queen's focused gaze reminds us to pay attention to these messages for they are real.
~ Trust the quiet guidance that comes from within

Whales are seen as ancient record-keepers, carriers of deep memory and soul-song. A breach is a revelation - something rising from the depths into consciousness. Collectively, this may be a year of remembering who we are beneath the fear, conditioning, and noise.
~ Allow old wisdom to surface from the depths

The sunlight breaking through the clouds shows illumination emerging slowly but surely. Clarity will come in its own time.
~ Trust the light that breaks through, even if the sky is still grey

⭐️The Collective Invitation for 2026:

This is a year for emotional maturity, intuitive listening, and consistent self-support. A year where we learn to hold ourselves with the same care the Queen shows her egg.

With love for our shared journey,
Vanessa 💜

05/01/2026

✨ My Card for the Year: The Knight of Cups (47) ✨

At the start of the year, I pulled a card from a new deck - The Oracle of Many Paths - and what emerged felt less like a random draw and more like a recognition.

Number 47. The Knight of Cups. Path: Ending.

A card woven with my lucky numbers, my Soul Plan vibrations, and imagery that speaks directly to my Cancerian heart.

This card has taken me on a journey through numerology, intuition, and symbolism: from the master number 11 to the gentle frequency of 2, from the seven‑legged traveller to the path that ends at the sea.

It feels like a message for a year of integration, embodiment, and heart‑led creation.
A year of coming home to myself.

I’ve written a full reflection on the card, the numbers, and what this archetype means for my year ahead. You can read it here:
👉 https://dragonflytherapist.uk/blog/my-card-for-the-year-2026

If you pull a card for the year too, I’d love to hear what found you.

The Knight of Cups is a powerful tarot archetype for intuitive growth, emotional truth, and heart-led transformation - and this year, it is my guide. A deep exploration of the Knight of Cups as a personal year card, weaving tarot symbolism, numerology, Soul Plan insights, and the path of emotional h

05/01/2026

Happy New Year 💫

I’ve just come back from a few days of quiet downtime with my family - resting, resetting, and giving my nervous system space to exhale after a full year of holding space for others, and the recent busyness of the festive period.

It’s felt really nourishing to pause… and now I’m easing my way back into work steadily and intentionally.

My diary is now open again for 1:1 work - for anyone who’d like support with emotional processing, grounding, self-connection, or navigating life transitions.
https://dragonflytherapist.uk

Over the next few months I also have some beautiful offerings taking shape:

✨ The Dragon Mother's Embrace: Ember Circle ~ starting 4 Feb https://dragonflytherapist.uk/embercircle
✨ The Stillpoint Within: A Silent Retreat ~ 17-20 April
https://dragonflytherapist.uk/silent-retreat
✨ Dragonfire bracelets & charms at upcoming spirit fayres Thame/Oxfordshire ~ 1 Feb
Chalton/Luton ~ 7 Feb

There are a few other offerings in development too, and I’ll share more as they come into being.

If you’d like to book a session, explore working together, or ask about anything I’ve mentioned, you’re very welcome to message me.

👉 If you’d like to stay updated as these offerings unfold, please feel free to follow my page for announcements and progress updates.

Beginning the year gently, with gratitude and openness.

Vanessa 💜

26/12/2025

💛The Stillpoint Within - Early Bird offer ends 31st December 💛

This is a small, gently-held silent retreat for those longing for time away from noise, responsibility, and overwhelm - with guided breathwork, meditation, journalling, and restorative stillness.

It’s reflective, grounded, and supportive rather than intensive or performative - a calm space to unwind your nervous system, integrate, and reconnect with yourself.

The retreat will be held at Hill House in East Sussex, with beautiful home-cooked vegetarian meals prepared by our retreat chef.

📆17th-20th April 2026
🏡Only6 spaces - an intimate and nurturing retreat experience
✨ Early Bird Offer: save £100 when you book before 31st December

If you’ve been feeling the pull to pause… this may be your moment.

You can find full details and secure your place with a £250 deposit here:
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Step away from the noise and return to yourself. Join a 3-night silent retreat in the UK, blending breathwork, creativity, and soulful rest in a nourishing, supportive space.