Ritual Alchemy
Trauma Informed Transformation Coaching:
Shadow Work,
Addiction Recovery
& Ancestral Healing
SHADOW INTEGRATION
FOR THOSE READY TO RISE
Co Create your highest timeline
- one ritual at a time.
When we consistently curate our daily habits, we alchemise to our highest timeline.
One ritual at a time.
Every client I work with is crossing the threshold from who they were to who they were born to be. We co create the structures to automate their alignment.
I work with people in transition -
reclaiming, reimagining, and refining.
While therapy focuses on how the past creates the present, coaching works on how the present creates the future. It's the strategy you use when you are ready to rise.
Supporting personal, professional,
& collective transformation
- one ritual at a time
Why Work With Me
You are here because you are ready to dismantle what is not serving you and build from authenticity.
My clients typically come to me when they are:
✧ Repeating patterns they can see but have not been able to break
✧ Carrying ancestral trauma, inherited programs, or downloaded beliefs from early childhood that are still running their lives
✧ Navigating sobriety, recovery, or their relationship with substances and want support from someone who has walked that path
✧ Processing grief, loss, or life altering endings
✧ Moving through a dark night of the soul or spiritual awakening
✧ Navigating estranged or complex family dynamics, cultural dissonance, or displacement
✧ Ready to integrate shadow material instead of spiritually bypassing it
✧ In liminal space - finishing a degree, building a business, or stepping into leadership and need strategic support
✧ Done with surface level work and ready for the depth of true shadow work in a safe container - where no dream is too big and no shadow too dark
What we do together:
✧ Identify the patterns driving your choices - including what you inherited versus what you're consciously choosing
✧ Build nervous system regulation and somatic capacity so you can stay present under pressure
✧ Map and integrate parts of your internal system - protectors, exiles, and the archetypal resources that emerge through healing
✧ Challenge assumptions, test logic, track blind spots, and cut through the stories you tell yourself
✧ Create structures and architect the scaffolding for the life you're actually meant to build
This is strategic, embodied transformation. Not theory - application.
Coaching is not advice or mentorship. It's a structured, psychology rooted process that helps you clarify your direction, reality test your thoughts, and build the rituals that sustain change.
I hold space for you to uncover the programs running in the background - to rewire the internal narratives no longer aligned with who you are becoming. With your permission, I'll challenge the frameworks keeping you stuck.
Who am i?
My name is Gillian Barden, and I am a trauma informed transformation coach for those crossing thresholds. My practice is built on supporting individuals in transition - reclaiming, reimagining, and refining - who are ready to step into their highest timeline. My work is deeply informed by my own initiation through grief, addiction, and recovery. I provide a structured, psychology rooted process to rewire unconscious programs and co create the rituals that sustain authentic change. This is strategic, embodied transformation.
Qualifications
MA Community Development | ICF-Accredited Executive, Business & Personal Coach | Toxicology & Detoxification Specialist (CPD) | MSc Psychology (in progress).
Areas of Research
✧ Addiction, recovery, and post-sobriety identity
✧ Disordered eating and body dysmorphia
✧ Ancestral inheritance and post-colonial repair
✧ Nervous system regulation and trauma integration
✧ Shadow work, ritual, and creative process
✧ Detoxification science, environmental toxicology, and alternative medicine
Gillian Barden M.A.
Testimonials
Clarity That Leads to Choice (Career Transformation)
"Gillian guided me through a crucial process of self reflection and structured thought that created a breakthrough in my career. In just three sessions, I developed the clarity and confidence I needed, received several job offers to choose from, and moved into one of my favorite companies."
— H., Vietnam
Finding Light Behind the Storm (Sustained Direction)
"Gillian appeared at the right time in a very trying period. I struggled for a long time to find someone who could both listen without judgment and understand where I was.
She was able to help me see the sun behind the storm, seeding positive ideals and gently nudging me a step into a more positive, sustained direction."
— P., Ireland
Courage and Vision
"Gillian is a supportive coach who really made me feel heard and helped give me the courage to believe in my own vision."
— C., UK
Ready to Begin Your Transformation?
If this resonates with you, let's talk about what's possible for your healing journey.
Reach to book a discovery call - a 20 minute complimentary conversation where we discuss your goals, I answer your questions, so we can determine if we're a good fit to work together.
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As you start to walk on the path,
the path appears
— Rumi
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