About Bernie

Hi, I’m Bernie

I’m the founder of Breathe & Bloom, an intuitive healer, Reiki Master, Shamanic Practitioner, author and spiritual mentor.

But more than anything, I believe my work is about helping people come home to themselves.

I work especially with sensitive, intuitive women who have spent years caring for everyone else, absorbing the emotions and energy around them, or simply feeling that somewhere along the way they have lost a little bit of themselves.

I know that feeling because I’ve lived it too.

My own journey into this work began later in life. In my early fifties, redundancy brought an unexpected ending to the career I had known and opened the door to a completely different chapter.

What followed was my own journey of healing, spiritual development and learning to trust the intuitive side of myself that I had pushed away for many years.

In 2015, Breathe & Bloom was born.

Over the years I have trained and worked with Reiki, intuitive and energetic healing, pendulum alchemy, the Akashic Records, shamanic practices, meditation, sound, crystals, essential oils and more.

But I don’t believe healing is about using one particular modality.

I listen to the person in front of me and allow the session to unfold around what they need.

Sometimes that means clearing what feels heavy.
Sometimes it means helping you recognise what you have been carrying that was never yours.
Sometimes it is about boundaries, confidence or trusting yourself again.
And sometimes you simply need somewhere safe to stop, breathe and be held for a while.

This is also at the heart of The Breathe & Bloom Journey – my deeper one-to-one experience for women who are ready to reconnect with themselves over 12 weeks rather than trying to change everything in a single session.

My book, The Unrushed Woman, grew from this same philosophy: that we don’t have to rush, push or become somebody different.

Sometimes the most powerful journey is the one that brings us back to who we already are.

After more than a decade of doing this work, I still love the one-to-one healing sessions, the circles, the teaching, the conversations and those beautiful moments when somebody suddenly sees themselves differently.

You don’t have to have it all figured out before you come through my door.

Come as you are.

We’ll begin from there.