About Me
For the Souls led by Ancestral Wisdom
My name is Mollie, a counsellor, cultural therapist and descendant of the Bean Feasa (Gaelic wise women) from the southern diaspora of Alba (Scotland). I walk alongside people of the Celtic and broader European diaspora living in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) in a collaborative process which uses ancestral reconnection to facilitate deep, intergenerational healing. Drawing on a combination of counselling, cultural storytelling, ritual and nature-based practices, I support you and your ancestors in navigating mental, emotional and spiritual challenges from a culturally rooted place of knowing and being.
This work invites a return to old ancestral ways that can support nervous system regulation, strengthen relationships, deepen your sense of identity, and foster a greater connection to land, community, and self. It also creates space to gently address inherited patterns, reframe social and cultural stigma, navigate decolonisation and witness the impacts of cultural dismemberment from ancestral traditions. It is through this that you are supported to reclaim your own ancestral authority, integrate intergenerational stories, decolonise your being and, reframe identity and belonging. Inspired by the ancient practices of our ancestors, we learn to listen, both within ourselves and in relationship with the living world around us.
My Story
I am a descendant of wise Scottish grandmothers (the Bean Feasa-Gaelic Wise Woman), having been born with the wisdom of my lineage still connected to the ancient Earth Grandmother (An Callieach), flowing through my blood. My life for a long time, experienced the pain of not belonging because it was disconnected from my cultural identity. It’s the kind of pain and longing which sings an ancient soul song but feeling hopeless not having the tools to respond. Until one day, in 2018 as I embarked on my mental health journey, I began to re-member the dismembered memories of my bloodline which held these ancient tools, and it made me realise how my being was still impacted by generations of cultural disconnection, and the continual suppression of cultural interconnection. After years of honouring ancestral practice and making pilgrimages to my ancestor’s lands, it is with deep humility and respect, that I invite others into this space of embracing ancestral reconnection and to be of service as I journey alongside them.
'We may not see it but beneath the surface of the soil, much like trees in a forest, we are all interconnected at our roots to each other.'
How Cultural Therapy Can Help:
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Grief/Loss/Death
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Intergenerational trauma
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Identity and meaning making
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Finding belonging
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Reestablishing family/community bonds (whether by blood or kinship)
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Remembering ancestral/earth-based practices for grounding and regulation
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Navigating the ancestral yearning for ‘home’
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Reclaiming sovereignty
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Decolonising relationship with self, community and the land
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Spiritual distress
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Building relationship with ancestors and descendants
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Navigating life-changing events such as sickness, births, deaths, separations, partnerships, ancestral/spiritual pilgrimage
Why this Work Matters
Our communities are much like a forest, above the soil each tree with their different forms, markings and colours, stands uniquely individual. However, if we are to journey beneath the soil, we find that each tree is interconnected at their roots. As my ancestors once did, I learn from what Earth models about healthy, sustainable and diverse communities. I believe that a person’s wellness reflects community and environmental wellbeing, and as such ancestral reconnection has far reaching impacts on our global communities, making them more accepting of diversity with greater social interconnection, and reinforcing community resilience through the weaving of intergenerational nurturing.
Who is this for?
I work primarily with people of the Celtic and broader European diaspora in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), understanding the unique cultural and historical nuances which shape cultural dismemberment for these communities which differ from the experiences of those on their native lands. As these peoples historically have traversed and settled in many parts of the world, I also welcome those with mixed heritage to sit with me. People will often find me at times of great transition in their lives such as births, partnerships, separations and deaths (all the little ‘rebirths’ we experience throughout our lives) because it is during these liminal phases that the presence of spirit and ancestors is most needed to guide the soul.
I especially find those neurodivergent folk, and peoples with chronic illness and disability love the sensory, grounding and regulatory practices which encompass ancestral connection with the Earth. Additionally ancestral work provides those who have come from fractured families, where there has been trauma, separation or abandonment to reconnect with belonging through kinship frameworks. I open this space for all those who seek to understand the importance of being a wise ancestor, in a way which sits fully with intergenerational and collective emotional, psychological and spiritual distress.