Hettie Peplow

Offering Essence Coaching and Insight Herbalism

Hettie has over thirty years experience of working with people and groups facilitating and supporting change at the personal, community and cultural level. She now works with people on a one to one basis facilitating healing and change; and in small groups to equip people with tools and skills for healing and growth.

She specialises in working with people who know that relationships and events in their past continue to effect their self worth, how they feel about life and their relationships. She helps people heal the past and build self confidence so that they can create authentic relationships and be at their best as they respond to life’s challenges.

Hettie has had her own journey of recovery from a difficult start in life  - lots of early medical intervention - which led to physical and mental ill health. Her experience of healing the trauma of that, growing her acceptance and love for herself and trust of life informs all of the work that she does. Foundational to her practice is a deep respect for every person, their unique history and potential for growth and change. She is passionate about empowering people to be their own self healers by equipping them with simple tools, principles and approaches to their own emotional life and wellbeing through the Essence^TM approach and connecting with plants.

Essence^TM Coaching is deep listening to understand your situation; helping you create a picture of what you want to move towards; sharing approaches to dissolve unhelpful thoughts and painful feelings; guiding inner enquiries for insight and healing and offering challenges to support you to move forwards. It is a very safe, gentle and transformative approach. We agree on practical steps and nurturing practices you can do between sessions to support the changes you want to see.

People often choose to take up coaching with Hettie when they are in emotional distress - fear, depression, anger, grief about something that has happened in their life - a breakup, a mistake, a bereavement, conflict and they are ready for real change. We work together to create emotional space, freedom from age old patterns and create new ways of being.

Insight Herbalism^TM is deeply connecting with plants to receive medicine for the heart and soul. During a session people talk about their situation and what has brought them there; then we take time to slow down, to breathe, to come back into relationship with the body and senses in preparation for connecting with a plant. Often we begin with Rose Tea; leading you through a sensory and somatic meditation you are then guided  into a deeper connection with Rose, or the plant using breath, sound, movement and listening touch.

People come to connect with herbs when they want to tend to their hearts or to learn how to connect deeply with local, seasonal plants for natural wisdom and healing.

Hettie qualified as a Social Worker  (after a science degree) and spent many years working for and supporting social and community change as a youth worker, community worker and campaigner for human rights. Her own health concerns propelled  her down a healing path. After herbs became essential in her healing and development she undertook an apprenticeship at the School of Intuitive Herbalism, graduating in 2023.

Hettie has studied the Essence^TM approach with its founder Joy Hicklin-Bailey of Secret Garden, becoming a licensed Essence Coach and healer in 2021. Since then she has been growing her practice. Hettie continues to have regular supervision and CPD with Joy to ensure that she serves people to the best of her ability.