Nicole Eden 

My Expertise

 My interest in psychology began early. I first studied psychology and later trained in integrative psychotherapy at the Minster Centre in London. At that stage of my life, though, I knew I needed more lived experience and more of my own healing before I was ready to work deeply with others.

I went on to become a secondary English and Drama teacher in the UK and abroad, including pastoral roles supporting young people with anxiety, low self-esteem, behavioural difficulties and family problems. That work deepened my understanding of what sits underneath behaviour and how emotional distress can affect every part of a person’s life.

Later, I founded Eden Sanctuary in Mallorca, an extension of a lifelong love of animals and commitment to animal advocacy. Caring for rescued animals, alongside everything I experienced personally during those years, deepened my understanding of the connection between early experience and the ways we relate to the present world: our behaviours, relationships, beliefs, coping strategies and responses to stress. It also gave me first-hand experience of the emotional cost of sustained caring: grief, repeated loss, responsibility, compassion fatigue, and eventually profound physical and emotional depletion.

I later returned fully to psychotherapy training and now work as a somatic psychotherapist and certified Compassionate Inquiry practitioner.

I work with people who care deeply, often to the point of carrying too much.

You may be an activist, rescuer, vegan, campaigner, carer or simply someone who feels a strong responsibility to make the world better. You may find yourself pushing through exhaustion, feeling guilty when you rest, struggling to say no, taking on more than is sustainable, or feeling that whatever you do is never enough.

My work can help you understand where these patterns come from, recognise the beliefs and survival responses that keep them in place, and find ways of taking meaningful action without losing yourself in the process.

I have a particular interest in trauma stewardship, compassion fatigue, self-sacrifice, grief, moral distress and the psychological impact of activism and animal rescue. Together, we can work towards greater choice, stronger boundaries, more sustainable ways of caring, and a relationship with yourself that is as compassionate as the one you want to extend to others.

Alongside this specialist work, I maintain a general psychotherapy practice and work with people from many different backgrounds and with a wide range of concerns. My therapy practice is not limited to vegans or activists, and the work always remains centred on the individual, their experience and what matters to them.

I am also developing talks, groups and experiential work around trauma, compassion, sustainable activism and the emotional experience of living according to deeply held values.