About

Meet the Keeper

If you've found your way here, perhaps it's only fair that we meet before we walk together.

My name is Ellen.

I've always been endlessly curious about what it means to be human.

For as long as I can remember, one quiet question has been keeping me company.

What helps a human being come home to themselves?

That question has led me through a life of many different landscapes.

I have known the energy of city life and the quiet of nature. Academic study and intuitive practice. Long evenings filled with music, conversation and celebration, and seasons of deep stillness.

Looking back, I can see that each of those worlds was teaching me something about what it means to be fully human.

I've never been interested in choosing between different worlds.

I've always been fascinated by the places where they begin to recognise one another.

Where science and mystery stop arguing and start speaking the same language.

Where psychology and symbolism illuminate the same thing from different angles.

Where the body gives words to something the mind has not yet understood.

Where what we know and what we sense are no longer separate.

I think I've always been listening for that.

Perhaps because I've always believed that truth has a frequency.

And when we encounter it...

something in us recognises it.

That same curiosity kept leading me into different fields of study and practice.

Journalism.

Neuroscience.

Nervous system regulation.

Embodiment.

Meditation.

Ancient wisdom.

Again and again, I found different languages pointing towards the same living truth.

Looking back, I realise I wasn't collecting disciplines.

I was following a thread.

And somewhere along the way, that thread became Lighthouse.

Not as a method.

Not as a business.

But as a House.

A place where different ways of knowing could belong together.

Where people could gently recognise what had never truly left them.

My own path has never been a straight line.

I have known seasons of illness.

Of burnout.

Of losing my bearings.

And of slowly finding my way through experiences that changed me from the inside out.

Not because they broke me.

But because they invited me into a different relationship with myself.

Little by little, I found myself weaving together what had once seemed separate.

Strength and softness.

Doing and being.

Science and mystery.

Not choosing between them.

But allowing them to become one life.

Over the years, hundreds of women have entrusted me with parts of themselves they could no longer carry alone.

For more than a decade, I have had the privilege of walking alongside them through retreats, private sessions and longer journeys.

Again and again, I have witnessed the same quiet truth.

People rarely need fixing.

They rarely need more information.

More often, they need a place where every part of them is welcome.

Where nothing has to be hidden.

Where the nervous system can soften.

Where the body can speak.

Where what has always been true can gently come back into view.

My work has never been about changing who someone is.

It has always been about creating the conditions in which they can recognise who they have always been.

That is the heart of Lighthouse.

My work has also been shaped by years of formal study and practice, including two Master's degrees, neuroscience, nervous system regulation, trauma-informed yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yin and Restorative Yoga, Reiki, mindfulness, intuitive development, and more than seven years of leading international therapeutic retreats.

Each has illuminated a different part of the same landscape.

None holds the whole picture.

My role is not to tell you who you are.

It is to quietly keep sight of you...

until you can see yourself again.

If you choose to walk through this House...

you do not need to arrive with the right words.

Or the right questions.

Or the right version of yourself.

Only yourself.

Exactly as you are.

I'll keep the light on.