A Return to Wholeness

I want to talk about how solo working for coaches/healers hurts all of us
How the focus on personal brand (rather than collective support) for therapeutic practitioners is not what the world needs any more, maybe it never was.
Let’s start at the start.
At the heart of most (all?) therapeutic modalities is a return to wholeness.
- Whether it is movement to drop you out of being solely in your head and into the wider home of your breath and body.
- Or meditations for noticing the constant draw of the ego so you can remember your connection to the collective.
- Or exploration practices that support you to seek and lovingly re-acquaint yourself with your exiled parts so you can live from your whole self.
- Or courses that remind you that you are part of nature (not solitary automaton) and that you have cycles and ebbs and flows just like the great mother earth.
The common theme here is wholeness.
And yet the wellness industry is awash with individualism.
So we end up working in a way that is antithetical to our values and vision for the world.
The system isn’t in our favour here.
Most therapeutic professions that involve the body/mind/soul/personal development are unregulated.
With the exception of counselling / psychotherapy, many therapeutic trainings do not offer ongoing supervision or support post qualification.
Add to that the modern marketplace which teaches us to build a personal brand (yes, I have one too) and you get a perfect recipe for solo flying therapists, out there in the increasingly complex realm of human stuff.
Hello consequences
Hello overworking - if we run any version of the healer wound or “good child” pattern.
Hello being unsupported - if we like to lone wolf things.
Hello feeling lost - we can be the most well trained practitioner on the planet and we will duly get our biggest lessons in the sessions we hold. With real clients. In relationship.
Hello being under-resourced - if we have to fund all of our own support themselves.
And eventually
This leads to many good practitioners collapsing, burning out or falling into disillusionment or losing confidence. This can lead to the hard (and never wholehearted) choice to quit or do ‘lighter’ work at very the moment these practitioners have breadth and depth of experience, and the most to give back to the collective.
When what we really need
What we really NEED at this time is their particular skill and ability to hold depth and complexity in and for our communities.
So here’s my contribution to fixing it
Whilst the work to dismantle rampant individualism and late (last?) stage capitalism might take some time, the support we can offer to those who hold others is available in a heartbeat.
I’m talking about
- Regular supportive supervision for spaceholders, in small groups where practitioners get to share what has challenged us, what we would like to do better, how to respond to the ever changing external landscape that (we and) our clients are living within.
- Access to a community of peers (not just those we trained with but those who see things from different perspectives), a group that sees and understands us and this work and that we see in return
- Online spaces that don’t hijack our attention and feed the techbro billionaires but instead are soothing and supportive and dedicated to humanity.
- Essentially a chance to be held in the way we hold others - this is often the thing we will deprioritise but which is actually the thing that is deeply necessary to sustain us.
This is why The Treehouse - Supervision, Support and Community for Spaceholders was created with Sophie Brigstocke
A return to the collective
So that we can begin to hold that frequency for those around us.
Because we can’t single-handedly hold the expansion required to hold others in these times without being supported and held ourselves.
Bring your thoughts to the conversation.
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash
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we’ll lovingly explore where you are, and I’ll point you in the direction of the support that’s going to make you feel most held, right now.
Press bio
Cat Moyle | Somatic Therapist + Teacher | Founder of The Treehouse
Cat is a Somatic Therapist and Teacher supporting + inspiring wellness professionals to do the work these times need.
She has worked somatically since 2001 and her seasoned experience holds a solid and loving space.
In 2026 she launched 🌳 The Treehouse | A Supervision and Support Community for wellness professionals.
The Treehouse sits within a wider vision of eco-system funding and wise counsel for those in wellness - a callback to when communities used to hold their medicine keepers - so the vital role of returning us all to the whole (inner and outer) can be played by well rounded, well resourced, well rested folks responding to their deepest calling.
⭕️ We hold them, they hold us, we remember how to be held, we remember how to hold. Full circle.
Her view of wellness is that it must always be rooted in community and she brings that unshakeable commitment to her offerings.
Based in the UK and Online you can read more about Cat here https://catmoyle.com
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SHORT SHORT BIO
Cat Moyle | Somatic Therapist + Teacher | Founder of The Treehouse
Supporting and inspiring wellness professionals to do the work these times need.
Through supervision, somatic support and community.
She works via one to one sessions (in person and online), small group training (with Laura Oseland) and potent online community (on The Portal)
Her view of wellness is that it must always be rooted in community and she brings that unshakeable commitment to her offerings.
Join The Treehouse to be part of the vision.
MY TEACHERS / GUIDES
I am fiercely supported and inspired by a network of teachers, mentors, peers and friends. I wholeheartedly understand that part of my work is to share what I learn from them. Here are the ones who currently inspire, support and teach me, speak in ways that makes me stop and listen and generally shine a light in dark corners.
Naomi Absalom - thecollectiveenergies.com/
Read more at catmoyle.com/treehouse
Laura Oseland - lauraoseland.co.uk/
Michelle Bartolo - michellebartoloyoga.com/
Eric Lipin - amanaeeurope.com/
Tad Hargrave - marketingforhippies.com/
My Mum and Family
Everyone I've ever worked with
The Late, Great Barefoot Doctor - RIP, D.
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