Fiona Bradley Poole
Welcome, love. I'm Fiona.
Somatic Parts Work Practitioner & Embodiment Coach
​I envision a world in which healing, community, relationality, pleasure and love form the foundations of life - a world in which all beings are celebrated for the gifts they bring to Earth.
My path has always been guided by a search for meaning. Growing up amidst forests and farmlands on the east coast of the US, I found solace in the wisdom of the natural world from a young age. At 18, my first trip to India shifted the trajectory of my life. Over three months, ancient teachings revealed possibilities I had only imagined. This led me to study South Asian traditions at university, seeking to understand a deeper truth that was awakening within me. Later on, I heard many calls to return to England, the land of my ancestors, and in returning found great expansion in my soul and heart. I felt closer to myself than ever before.
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The path that led me home was not an easy one to walk, though, and I still had a ways to go. I spent a great portion of my early life disembodied and disconnected, trapped by wounds of the past and stuck in patterns that had first been created before I could even remember. I felt small, uninspired, and without purpose. Creativity, play, and intuition had been buried under doubt and fear. The need for transformation became inescapable.
I had a choice — I could either continue living a life that felt deeply unfulfilling, trying desperately to live up to the expectations of others and my high standards, or turn inward and face the parts of me that had been cast into the shadows and finally break through my shell of fear and conditioning. I discovered tools like parts work, shadow work, and rediscovered my love for song and dance, all of which supported me in making sense of what I was feeling inside. I felt the magic of the land come alive within me and began to see myself reflected in the more-than-human world. Slowly, like ferns in the spring, my shamed and hidden parts began to unfurl themselves. In 2023 I embarked on a year-long women's initation led by Jewels Wingfield, reclaiming my soverignty and wildness as a woman of the land. Soon my body felt safe enough to begin revealing to me its stories and wisdom. My relationship with my sexuality transformed into a reclamation of lifeforce enegy, creativity, and empowerment. I entered into a conscious, loving partnership in which personal and relational growth are fundamental. Following the threads of my intuition has allowed me to embody my truth and share it with others. Now I live in Falmouth, Cornwall where I often have to pinch myself that I get to live on such beautiful lands next to the wonderous and powerful sea.
The most invaluable wisdom I've gained has come from my own experiences of vulnerability, courage, and love, and from making a conscious effort to always look deeper.
Twelve years of personal therapy - psychodynamic, Jungian, and IFS - inform my work and life.
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Qualifications and Trainings
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+ Somatic Parts Work Certificate, Levels 1, 2 and 3 (Embody Lab, 2024)
+ Internal Family Systems Immersion Certificate (PESI, 2024)
+ Wombdala: Women's Initiation (Jewels Wingfield, 2023 - 2024)
+ Foundation Year in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (British Psychotherapy Foundation, 2023)
+ Integrative Wellness and Life Coach (Integrative Wellness Academy, 2022 - 2023)
+ BA Asian Studies (University of Colorado, 2018)