Hi, I’m Tracy

I’ve transformed my life and I can help you do the same.

I realised I needed help.

I was lost, and my self-esteem was at rock bottom

In discovering ways to help and heal myself, I also learned how to help other people that were in my situation. It wasn’t enough to just sort myself out, I wanted to put my arm around other women who were in the same boat.

As a highly sensitive empath I have a curious brain that loves to read, learn and understand things. So I started delving into personal development and doing my own healing work. Twenty years later I am still here!

Whilst I’m a counsellor and emdr theapist now, it all started with a host of alternative and holistic therapy courses, including reiki and reflexology. Oh I loved them. I soon realised that, in learning to heal other people, I was actually healing myself. I soaked it all up. It felt so right, and I wanted to do more.

Tracy Ann Wood Counsellor and EMDR Therapist pictured in blue with eyes closed.

Pivitol moments.

Without taking you on every twist and turn of my CV, I continued to study, do personal development work and volunteer.  I collected qualifications and experience along the way as I completed my psychology degree, post-graduate diplomas in education, counselling and emdr (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing).

I’ll never forget a pivotal moment on the third day of a personal development seminar, in an activity about taking responsibility for my life and beginning to let go of the past. With a feeling of dread, it dawned on me that I had been doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result.

I was numbing my pain by projecting blame for all my problems onto my childhood and my past relationships. I had abdicated all responsibility – as if everyone else was wrong and I was some sort of saint. I got so used to telling people how bad my life had been that I had begun to enjoy telling my story. As this began to sink in I remember feeling so scared and shocked, I could hear my own heartbeat in my ears. It wasn’t about other people at all, it was about me!

Counsellor & EMDR Therapist

I found myself in a thriving career, but realised it wasn’t enough for me. I was helping people… but they often just wanted quick fixes rather than working to heal the root of the problem, which was often unresolved issues from childhood. It frustrated me, and I knew I could do more work with people’s hearts and minds to shift the way they felt about themselves, so that they could take charge of the rest of their lives.

When I did my very first course in Reiki all those years ago, I had discovered an instinctive knack for helping people connect with their energy. Now I wanted to get back to that and combine it with talking therapy and emdr. A well-rounded blend of treatmens that really worked.

That’s when I did my Counselling and Psychotherapy Diploma, then added EMDR (eye movement desensitisation & reprocessing) to my toolbelt. Now I could not only help my clients heal from the past, but I could also help them move on to a much more powerful future.

I now offer Counselling and EMDR Therapy in Cottingley, between Bradford and Bingley in West Yorkshire.  My clients benefit from my experience, both personal and professional and I spend my days helping people heal and move on with their lives through my 1-1 and online sessions, groupwork, training and workshops.

Tracy Ann Wood doing emdr therapy eye movements with a client.

It’s my mission in life and I love it. I know what it’s like to feel horrible, hopeless and stuck. And I know that it’s completely possible to clear all the muck out of your mind, learn to love yourself and live a calm, confident life full of possibility.

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