Nondual Psychology
with Amy Ward
Being yourSelf.
A Psychology That Never Leaves The Ground
Grounded. Compassionate. Informed. Alive.
"Though the nature of existence is extremely subtle and profound, so too is the perceiving intelligence that experiences all this. What you are is intrinsically aligned with the very nature of what you are trying to understand. This alignment grants you the ability to comprehend it"
PETER BROWN
Hi, I'm Amy -
Nondual Psychologist, Therapist, and Mentor
Meeting in experiential inquiry together is my offering, invitation, and encouragement to be engaging in and living this life in a constantly new and extraordinary yet simultaneously ordinary and obvious way, fully inclusive of all human experiencing.
Our experiencing of suffering of course does not define us, but it does, when approached through intelligent engagement and reparenting as this presence of experiencing, reveal our way into exactly what is needed and longed for. That is, the truth that is the nature of experience and all arising phenomena as yourself.
The result? Aware, open, engaged, flowing, and not to mention a sense of connection, belonging, inspiration, and meaning beyond measure - all inside your own experience of being alive as the empty-fullness of home.
Facilitating your unfolding - revealing the heart of life...
A Psychology that never leaves the ground.
I practice in Nondual Psychology and Therapy - facilitating self/experiential inquiry in the context of spiritual awakening, existential suffering, trauma, addiction, and conscious relating. I facilitate the natural energetic unfolding of being/consciousness through the frame of Reparenting as Presence and Compassionate Attunement. I am passionate about aligning radical empiricism in the cessation of seeking and associated suffering in a ‘non-pathologising’ applied Psychology that honors depth, and illuminates the truth of the nondual nature of experience.
As well as my one to one therapy and mentorship practice I am co-developer and teacher of the Reclaiming Wholeness Training for Practitioners.
I love music. I love dancing. I love witnessing life in the natural world. I love here. I love us. I love.
I am currently learning to paint.
I can't find a dividing line between 'you' and 'me' - this is what I know love to be.
In today’s fast-paced world, many of us are yearning for depth and meaning as an actual lived experience of peace, clarity, and embodied well-being - this that is revealed as we establish in the truth of non-separateness. That is, the self as the nondual nature of experience. It is my experience and understanding that this yearning for depth is at the root of our experience of psychological, emotional, and spiritual suffering. It is not a mistake. It is deeply intelligent and should be inquired into with the wholeness of heart.
This yearning for depth and peace appears as our understanding that true healing involves more than just symptom relief, and we can feel endlessly frustrated and dissatisfied by the constant offerings of this as the solution to our struggle. Because symptom management and self-improvement is what is so consistently offered as the solution, this knowing and insight that it is not the solution can manifest as self-doubt. This is because we know that there is more to our experience of suffering than this. We are feeling the call of deep insight but we can't pin it down or express it - its beyond our usual way of expressing, and everyone is telling us that the solution is 'out there' in how we improve ourselves, change our life situation, or save the world.
"A number of times I have realized my questions do not have answers in thought form"
"I am more open to looking, being curious and not pushing away the present moment, regardless of the vibe it carries."
Despite the incredible effectiveness of psychological and therapeutic healing modalities, they largely work with the strategies of defending, protecting, and reinforcing the core sense of separateness - the very functioning that we need to reveal as false in order to feel the truth of unobstructed well-being that is the self as presence. We may experience momentary relief - whilst the core angst and fear that drives our experience remains untouched, silently screaming beneath the surface. We feel hopelessness, frustration, loneliness, fear, and eventual exhaustion and existential crisis. Where giving up was everything that we were avoiding, its now the best that we can do. This is intelligent and incredibly good news - and, it can feel absolutely horrendous. What is giving up is the manager, the thinker, the fixer, the gatekeeper. The suffering loop of the separate self. If any of this feels resonant, or stirs something within you - whether it be further fear, excitement, or a still, quiet peace - I wholeheartedly encourage you to explore yourself. To feel yourself. Your experience holds within it the deepest wisdom of the cosmos. You are igniting the energetic master seed that reveals your birthright. Life's only purpose is to know itself and be itself. One life. Getting on board with this IS well-being.
"There has definitely been a shift in energy, and more openness to experience, where it used to be fear."
We may have already discovered this through nondual teachings and the direct path. The problem here arises though in the fact that the direct path, whilst the most effective, is itself a bypass of the human experience, and we can get stuck here rather than recognising this as an initial opening. Nonduality, in its purest form, points to the simplicity of being. But when this realisation bypasses our very real human needs, we fall into a new form of dualism - the belief that seeking is wrong, or that we’ve somehow failed because we’re still hurting and suffering. This can leave us feeling isolation, overwhelm, and spiritual confusion. At the same time, psychological modalities that aim to resolve trauma and emotional pain often miss the deeper context of our true nature. We become trapped in self-improvement loops, endlessly managing symptoms and life - seeking pleasure to avoid the core pain of separation instead of addressing this root sense of 'me' and the illusion of lack that drives it.
There is work to do, and it takes courage, commitment, deep insight, and the mother load of love that is you as this ever-present, untouched nature of being. My aim is for you to feel the energetic embodiment of your infinite nature through the normal, ordinary, and everyday human experience. My offering in meeting this is a therapeutic, relational space where modern psychological knowledge, method, and skill meets nondual wisdom through igniting the healing field of compassion.
"I have connected deeper with reality/ awareness. I have let go of alot of my idea's of how things "should" go and how I "should" be. I have noticed alot more peace, alot more unnderstanding of myself and other. As well as getting a real felt sense of the interconnectedness between myself, god and all other beings."
In togetherness, we are.
What you can expect in our work together:
Presence. Relationship. Real Change.
...an Intelligent Engagement
Our work together is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about meeting what’s here - with presence, care, curiosity, and deep listening. My approach is rooted in Compassionate Attunement and Reparenting as Presence, a model of healing that recognises even our most painful patterns as intelligent responses to the unmet need for unwavering presence. I also draw on an integration of attachment theory within a nondual framework, honouring how our relational nervous systems shape the experience of being - even (and especially) on the spiritual path.
As we work together, you can expect to be gently supported to explore your experience of being. This is not to solve yourself. Rather, it is to feel directly into the qualities of being that have always been here, waiting to be recognised.
This work isn't about quick fixes or bypassing discomfort. It's about slowly, gently learning to trust the ground that was never lost. That's where lasting change and peace lives.
A Commitment to Depth
This is not a fast-track approach and in our human experience this can feel challenging. Fast track approaches and 'quick shifts' keep us on the surface of experiencing where we can't fully resource the qualities of self that we need to stabilise in lasting change. I don’t offer surface-level tools or problem solving strategies. Tools can be explored as a means of facilitating revealing the depth of presence as a feature of our work together but will not be offered as 'a solution'. Revealing our patterns relationally - is how lasting transformation takes root.
...Self-unfoldment & transmutation
Attachment-sensitive Nonduality
You may be walking a deep nondual path already, maybe even beyond personal identity, and still feel the tender struggle of unmet attachment patterns. That’s not failure. That’s human.
This work honours both: the formless essence of what you are, and the relational imprint of your lived experience. Sometimes this integration can feel paradoxical or confusing. That’s okay. I will support you in making space for both without bypass or shaming - whilst allowing all feelings like shame to be fully present.
...Presence as the Radiant Parent.
Experiential Inquiry
Our work is experiential. That means you’ll be gently guided to feel and meet your experience more directly over time. I hold compassion for resistance - and this process does ask for your willingness to be in relationship with what arises. This is not a training in strategies. This is a return to self through relationship - and it’s our therapeutic relationship, held in compassionate attunement, that reveals the healing field.
...Radical empiricism
"every energy that shows up in your experience is a lightning bolt from God. It is pure divine shakti, and it is truth, and when you see it and own it as a vector of divine force, its a weapon in your arsenal. You're using it, but you're not doing something with it, you're using it by seeing it...seeing is doing. When you see what things are you've done it. So it's kind of like surfing. When you see these energies and you see the truth of it, you ride that truth and that is integrated to all the other energies, until you see the full field of the energies and you're surfing the whole thing, and then you dissolve as a separate surfer and its just this field of energy surfing itself"
PETER BROWN
I holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and MSc in Applied Psychology (Healthcare - Children and Young People) and previously practiced for 8 years as a Psychologist with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (NHS, Scotland) – where my role involved psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and families, and evidence based programme design, implementation, and evaluation. My focus was mainly working with parents and young children in the exploration of attachment, and with adolescents suffering moderate to severe mental health difficulties. I also worked with the Autism diagnostic team and in a clinical teaching role with the University of Edinburgh. In research, I evaluated integrity and fidelity of peer assisted supervision models in evidence based programme evaluation and delivery. I also explored qualitative and quantitative measures of early cognitive precursors to theory of mind development and how this is facilitated through parent engagement in the dynamics of attachment patterns.
I took a break in my psychology career when I left the National Health Service in 2016. This was a movement in following consciousness unfolding and connecting with self nature. I studied Permaculture Design and provided an independent evaluation service for projects in Community Supported Agriculture and Agroecology, using nature's patterns and principles to observe and develop theories of change. I then returned to therapeutic/mentorship work, and practitioner development, in my private practice.
Qualifications/Certificates
MSc Applied Psychology (Health Care) for Children and Young People
BSc Psychology (1st Class Hons)
Trauma-Focused CBT
Advanced Autism Practice
Certificate in Non-Dual Therapy (Module 1)
Nondual Therapy - The Trauma that Blinds us (Module 2)
Nondual Therapy - A New Dawn Rising (Module 3)
Certified Breathwork Practitioner and Spiritual Coach
(Sundoor School of Spiritual Therapy and Leadership – Peggy Dylan)
Certificate in Shamanic Practice
(Lendrick Lodge)
Permaculture Design Certificate