Neeley Moore, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner and Addiction Recovery Coach

“When you weren’t held as a kid, you develop a mind to hold yourself with.” Gabor Maté

I work at the intersection of trauma, somatics, and embodied healing. My approach is grounded, integrative, and client-led—built on the belief that true transformation happens when we reconnect with the intelligence of the body and the truth it holds.

I create a space where women can be fully seen and heard, not just emotionally, but somatically and spiritually. This is not about bypassing pain or polishing over discomfort. It’s about dismantling the internal armory, meeting what’s been buried, and reclaiming the parts of self that were lost to survival.

Through mindfulness-based somatic therapy, I help retrain the nervous system, build resilience, and restore coherence between mind and body. We work with anticipation, how the brain prepares for threat, and bring awareness to the ways past experiences still live in the body through sensation, posture, movement, and energy.

My work is informed by lived experience: childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, fertility grief, IVF, hormonal dysregulation, and menopause. These aren’t just chapters in my story, they’re the foundation of my practice. I understand what it means to rebuild from the inside out.

I trained as a Recovery Coach with CCAR and later as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner under Dr. Gabor Maté. I’m an associate member of the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine. My approach integrates somatic awareness, emotional intimacy, and psychological insight. It’s not formulaic—it’s relational, intuitive, and rooted in presence.

Clients come to me to work through:

  • Addiction & recovery
  • ADHD & anxiety
  • Depression & low self-worth
  • Abuse, trauma & PTSD
  • Fertility challenges & grief
  • Women’s health & hormonal transitions
  • Spiritual disconnection & identity loss

This is not talk therapy. It’s body-mind integration. It’s about inhabiting your life fully, living from your wild, safe heart with clarity, integrity, and freedom.

As Gabor Maté says, “When you weren’t held as a kid, you develop a mind to hold yourself with.” My work is about helping you lay that mind down, and come home to the body that’s been waiting for you.

Menopause is not just a decline in hormones — it is a full- body recalibration. At the heart of this lies the neuroendocrine system — the HPTAO axis (hypothalamic– pituitary–thyroid–adrenal–ovarian). This delicate hormonal network governs stress, energy, metabolism, and reproductive function. As this axis shifts in midlife, the body may express signals of imbalance: sleep disturbances, anxiety, mood changes, fatigue, thyroid irregularities, adrenal depletion, and emotional intensities that often seem to arise from nowhere.

From a somatic and trauma-informed perspective, these symptoms are not random. They are intelligent communications from a body asking to be heard. During this transition, stored stress, early attachment imprints, and long-held survival responses can surface, no longer buffered by reproductive hormones. This is where reflexology becomes a powerful pathway for healing.

Through gentle activation of pressure points on the feet, reflexology stimulates the organs, glands, and systems of the body — including the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, pituitary, and digestion. In attuned presence, this therapeutic touch supports balance within the HPTAO axis, soothes the nervous system, and fosters a deep sense of reconnection.

Combined with my training in Compassionate Inquiry® and somatic trauma recovery, reflexology becomes more than treatment. It becomes a space for renewal — tending not only to symptoms but to the emotional and energetic roots beneath them.

Research-Backed Benefits
• Hormonal balance — Reflexology can reduce hot flushes, anxiety, and sleep disturbances in menopause (Wang et al., 2019).
• Stress & adrenal support — Treatments have been show to lower salivary cortisol, helping regulate the stress response (Hamed & Mahmoud, 2017).
• Cardiovascular health — Reflexology has been linked to improved blood pressure regulation, supporting women with stress-related hypertension (McCullough et al., 2014).

This work can help you:
• Calm the stress response & aid adrenal recovery
• Rebalance endocrine health (thyroid, ovaries, pituitary)
• Ease hot flushes, anxiety, brain fog & insomnia
• Release emotional residue held in the body
• Support nervous system regulation through touch & relational safety
• Hormonal balance — Reflexology has been shown to ease hot flushes, anxiety, and sleep disturbances in menopause (Wang et al., 2019).

“My trauma-informed practice is shaped by a whole-person understanding of health.”

At Midlife Bloom™, we bring together modern neuroscience, somatic wisdom, and compassionate exploration to help you tend to the roots beneath your symptoms. Using the Compassionate Inquiry® method alongside somatic awareness, nervous system mapping, midlife psychology, and body-based therapeutic tools, I guide you to gently uncover what lies beneath your symptoms and emotional patterns with presence, and compassionate care.

My approach honours the interwoven nature of the biological, emotional, relational, and spiritual self — a philosophy grounded in what’s known as the biopsychosocial model. This means I don’t treat symptoms in isolation, but hold space for the full ecology of your experience.

A Whole-Person Lens

  • Your biology and hormonal shifts.
  • Your emotional imprints and early attachments
  • Your social and cultural landscape — including gendered expectations, intergenerational patterns, and inherited roles

At Midlife Bloom™, I layer an integrative holistic approach anchored primarily in Compassionate inquiry, whilst also drawing on the Polyvagal Theory and neuroception. This guides us to understand your body’s implicit cues of safety, danger, or overwhelm. I also integrate neuroendocrine awareness to support the shifting hormonal terrain of perimenopause and beyond.

Menopause is not just a hormonal event. It’s a relational and spiritual reckoning — one that often surfaces everything we had to suppress to survive. I also draw upon the ACE framework to explore how early emotional environments shape adult health and stress response.

The ACE Model: A Window Into the Past
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, first conducted by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente in the 1990s, revealed a groundbreaking link between early emotional injury and adult physical, emotional, and mental health. The study explored how 10 types of childhood adversity — from abuse and neglect to household dysfunction — significantly increase the risk of chronic illness, hormonal dysregulation, addiction, and autoimmune conditions later in life. But this is not where your story ends. The body, when met with safety, presence, and compassion, can rewire, release, and restore.

Healing from the inside out — through presence, curiosity, and nervous system truth.

Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades of clinical and retreat work, and further evolved into a training program by Sat Dharam Kaur ND. It gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, emotional constriction, and internalized beliefs held in the body — often at the root of chronic stress, illness, addiction, anxiety, and hormonal dysregulation.

At Midlife Bloom™, I use this method to support women through the often misunderstood transition of perimenopause and menopause — a time when emotional memory stored in the body rises to the surface, asking to be witnessed, metabolised, and transformed. When the therapeutic relationship becomes a safe, attuned container, curiosity and compassion allow us to:

  • Explore the emotional wounds that shaped early adaptations
  • Recognise the survival beliefs we’ve carried since childhood
  • Feel the emotions we once had to suppress
  • Reconnect to our authentic voice, boundaries, and embodied self

Together, we uncover the mental climate, implicit memories, nervous system imprints, and unconscious stories that shape how you feel — and who you believe you are. As we bring these into awareness, what once felt fixed begins to soften. And from that space, a new way of being can emerge: one rooted in choice, freedom, expansion, and wholeness. Menopause isn’t the end — it’s the sacred unveiling of the woman beneath the roles, beneath the survival patterns, beneath the story.

This is your Midlife Bloom.™ And Compassionate Inquiry® is one of the tools we use to meet it with depth, grace, and healing

HARVEST THERAPY
20 Bedford Square,
London WC1B 3HH
United Kingdom

Phone Number:
020 8962 6247
email: info@harvest-therapy.co.uk