I am here to support you emotionally, practically and spiritually as you go through big life and work/business transitions, while living a life of awareness, freedom and serenity
Change and mutation are part of my Human Design (read this blog post to find out more).
I have gone through many transitions and identity shifts (and I’m ‘only’ 46!).
I am here to support you through yours.
I have been obsessed with IDENTITY, and who we are MEANT TO BE here on Earth, for decades.
Identity and transitions go hand in hand.
When you are in a life or work/business transition, you are also in an identity shift.
This is why I have created the Transition Temple, and within it the Tapping Temple, Transition Sessions and Your 13 Guiding Lights – to guide you the best way I can through these transitions.
This is also why I mostly work with women – our cycles and our hormones mean that we go through many transitions in our lifetimes and I find this (frustrating, yes!) (unsettling, yes!) fascinating. I feel it is the hardest thing we have to experience, but also the most mind-opening, heart-blossoming and spirit-connecting adventures.
It’s an honour to have you visit my website, and this page in particular. I would love to get to know you too, book your Connection Call here if you would like to have a chat about your requirements.
Serving women
Both my maternal grandmother and mother were doctors, and both served women. The first as a dietitian, acupuncturist and writer (she wrote over 20 books), the second as a gynaeocologist.
I always knew I wanted to ‘help people’ and I initially thought it would be as a psychologist. My parents and grandmother being doctors, they strongly discouraged me and said if I was going to be a ‘psy’-something, I had to be a psychiatrist. I am SO glad I didn’t listen to them and chose a different path. (In any case, I didn’t want to spend 11 years studying medicine and psychiatry, and my grades in science wouldn’t have been good enough. And as a highly sensitive person who also has ADHD and is probably autistic too (not seeking an identification at this point), I now know I would never have survived in that world!)
I left France for England at the age of 18 and never went back. I studied politics, I got an MA in International Studies (focused on the Asia-Pacific region) and then, books being my passion, became an editor and proofreader for various educational publishers, both in-house and freelance.
When I discovered hypnotherapy for my own needs (2011), and then became a hypnobirthing teacher (2012), I knew that’s how I was going to ‘help people’, women in particular: with hypnotherapy, not with counselling, or psychology, let alone with psychiatry.
I found out about the importance of the subconscious (reading Freud when I was 15 should have given me a clue as to what direction I would eventually take!), how much of our actions is actually totally unconscious, and how the only way to make long-lasting change is through hypnosis – a state of deep relaxation.
During my hypnotherapy and NLP training in 2014, I discovered and learnt EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques, aka ‘tapping’) and although I found it weird and not helpful for a while, one day, during one of what I call my ‘mega sessions’ (sessions that last at least 1 hour and where I go deep and cry a lot!), I started releasing deep deep stuff that not even hypnotherapy had uncovered or solved. I was hooked!
From then on (2015), I listened to and read as much as I could from all the EFT gurus and perfected my technique and used it with and taught it to ALL my clients. I realised how much I was using my intuition to provide the right words for my clients to say, to lead them out of their anxiety, sadness, anger, frustration, overwhelm, physical pain, you name it, and lead them to contentment, calm and clarity. Images came to my head during our sessions, and I just knew what they were going to say next or what answers they would provide to my questions, even when I went online full time in 2018.
It felt like magic, especially when the trauma they had come to me to release just vanished, never to come back. (I also use IEMT for trauma and, again, use my intuition as to which modality will be the better one, according to each individual’s circumstances.)
From there, I trained in and further studied a few other modalities, and I often combine them all in my sessions, depending on my client’s needs.
I also trained as a Sacred Money Archetypes® Coach in 2019 and as a Money Breakthrough Business Coach in 2020, and money and business are now an integral part of my client work (if needed), helping coaches, therapists, priestesses and healers with their own businesses and/or money mindset as well as their emotional blocks and identity issues.
The basis of my work is threefold:
- Archetypes (and therefore identity) so you can get to know yourself and what you want and are here to do more deeply than ever before.
- EFT so you can release the emotional blocks that are in the way of you living the life of your dreams and doing your ideal work in the world (past traumas, overwhelm, stress, anxiety, worries around visibility, and the feelings of stuckness you experience when you’re not living fully your Archetypes and Human Design).
- Guiding you to tweak or dramatically change things in your life and career/business so you live and work in a fully aligned way, and to live the life of your dreams according to YOUR Archetypes and YOUR Guiding Lights.
I feel so immensely privileged to be part of my clients’ healing and life, work/business and money journeys and that you have found my website if this is the kind of work you would like to explore for yourself.
If you have read this far and feel called to work with me when it comes to your writing (including life, business and money, as they’re all interlinked), book your free Connection Call so that we can discuss your requirements.
If you know you need to release some difficult emotions or feelings around your life or work/business transition, book a Transition Session here. If you live in or near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, book your face-to-face EFT session here.
If you know you have deeper issues linked to trauma, book your Trauma Session here (or here if you live in or near Malmesbury, Wiltshire).
If you have a Facebook group or circle, an online audience or an in-person women’s circle or group (if based in Wiltshire) that you would like to introduce to EFT or my work around money and the Sacred Money Archetypes® or/and the Branding Archetypes, book your free Connection Call so we can have a chat about your requirements.
I am honoured and excited to be able to offer you many tools and techniques as we work together, based on my own experiences, my training, my Sacred Money Archetypes (Accumulator, Alchemist and Ruler), my branding archetypes (Alchemist and Explorer) and my Human Design (1/3 Sacral Generator):
- providing non-judgemental, inclusive and unwavering emotional, practical and emotional support
- providing endless ideas (for life, organisation, money and work/business)
- intuitive guidance
- hypnotherapy
- NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
- EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
- IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy)
- Somasense® (which combines hypnotherapy and movement)
- oracle cards
- doTERRA essential oils
- book recommendations
If we work together, I will be right here by your side all the way, holding your hand and holding space. The techniques I use are safe and offer quick, effective and long-term resolution of many emotions, feelings and traumas, exploring and releasing them in peace and confidence.
Rena Gough, author of Keep Calm and Birth On and Don’t Panic!: 5 Things Every Birth Partner Needs to Know
Laetitia is a guide, a mentor who helps people work things out for themselves in their own time. They don’t need a path to follow, they don’t need signs to tell them which way to go and what to think and what to do. They simply need Laetitia to coax them along their own journey, according to their Archetypes and other Guiding Lights. She truly is an amazing guide.
If you have read this far, perhaps I am the Transition Guide you have been searching for. Get in touch, I can’t wait to have a chat with you and see if we are a good fit for each other
Short bio
I was born in Paris in the late 1970s and left France when I was 18. I was only going to be in the UK for 2 months, working as an au pair, but I fell in love with the campus of the University of Nottingham and have never looked back.
I left university with an MA in International Studies: The Asia-Pacific Region (for which I got a Distinction) in September 1999 and by January 2000, I had found not one but three jobs in publishing, one full time in-house, and two freelance. (And they say getting into publishing is very hard!) My love of books, writing, editing and proofreading was inextinguishable.
I then had my first daughter in 2008 and it rocked my world. I became equally as passionate about birth as about books. I qualified as a birth doula (professional birth companion) and postnatal doula (mum’s help) in 2011 (I trained with Michel Odent and Liliana Lammers on their Paramana Doula course) and as a HypnoBirthing™ practitioner (the Marie Mongan Method) in 2012, a few months before I had my second daughter. In 2014, I became a HypnoMothering™ practitioner, an IEMT practitioner (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) and finally a Professional and Clinical Hypnotherapist and an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming™) practitioner, in order to satisfy further my thirst for helping people, which I had had since I was around 15 (but probably since birth!).
Finally, the world of money and business coaching called my name, and since 2019/2020, as a Sacred Money Archetypes® Coach and as a Money Breakthrough Business Coach® (trained in both by the legendary Kendall SummerHawk), I have been able to support my clients with their money mindset and their businesses. It is all interconnected, as, in order to find the time to write, you need to see fewer clients or do less in your business, and in order to do that, you need to get your money mindset in order.
As part of my continuing professional development (CPD) and my own personal development, I read a wide variety of books and articles and I regularly attend webinars, workshops and courses. I am an eternal student and I am currently studying to be a Human Design guide.
Training & qualifications
- My clinical hypnotherapy, NLP and EFT training was with Thoughtitude. The courses are run by June O’Driscoll and Geoff Rolls, who are valuable members of the trainer assisting teams for Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP) and for Paul McKenna.
- My Diploma in Professional and Clinical Hypnotherapy is validated by the General Hypnotherapy Register and the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and I am licensed with the Society of NLP (founded by Richard Bandler). I am thus bound by the GHR and NLP Codes of Ethics.
- My money and business coach training was with Kendall SummerHawk.
I am fully insured with Arthur J. Gallagher/Royal & Sun Alliance for all the therapies I provide.
A bit more about me…
- I am French and have been living in the UK since 1995 (in Oxfordshire between 2004 and 2022, and now in Wiltshire).
- I also speak Italian and Spanish, though both are a bit rusty.
- Laetitia comes from the Latin laetus, which means joyous. Hence my business name, Joyous Journeys. You may have known me under other names, but Laetitia is my middle name and it was always the one I preferred to use when meeting new people when I was little. One night in February 2021, I woke up abruptly and heard ‘Reclaim your name!’ This took me on a long journey, an identity crisis, which I only recovered from in early 2023. It was my longest transition ever. Not one I wish to go through again!
- I did a BA in Politics and an MA in International Studies (my dissertation was about France and the Indochina War), both at the University of Nottingham.
- I am a keen hatha yoga practitioner and an assiduous meditator, and I love walking, cycling and wild swimming.
- I have been a circle holder and facilitator since 2017.
- I believe I bring my experiences in these fields and activities into my interactions with clients – a kind, caring, attentive, mindful, grounding and intuitive approach to life and people.
About the elephant
The elephant is also usually praised for its longevity, stamina, mental faculties, cooperative spirit and loyalty.
And of course, elephant herds are led by the oldest and largest female cow, the matriarch. She is usually the one who was the most closely related to the previous matriarch. The rest of the herd is made up of the matriarch’s other daughters and their calves.
The elephant is my spirit animal.
I discovered this when I attended a workshop called ‘Introduction to Shamanism’ in February 2018.
I am SO honoured that the elephant is my spirit animal and have since realised she does feature a lot in my life already. On the tapestry in my studio, on my yoga-mat cover, on my meditation cushion, and even on my keyring and a candle holder that is in my living room
So she just had to feature on my website.
Then I discovered that she is all about strength, patience, wisdom, honour, stability and tenacity.
In the Hindu tradition, the elephant is found in the form of Ganesha, who is the god of luck, fortune and protection and is a blessing upon all new projects.
In Africa, many cultures revere the African elephant as a symbol of strength and power.
So she is just perfect to represent my business, my vision for my life’s work and the way that my clients and I work, separately and together. (Design by Catherine Carr, from IndigoBright Design Studio.)