An Introduction
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, healing from trauma, navigating burnout, in a dark night and struggling to pray, or just want to better understand the link between emotional wellness and spiritual growth, you are welcome here.
We offer an integrated approach to dealing with trauma and mental health issues from, either a purely clinical approach with one of our highly qualified and experienced therapists, or from a spiritual and pastoral approach with our pastor over at Eremos Place, who offers spiritual direction and mentoring. This can of course be a combined approach.
Our Services
Explore the diverse range of services and programs tailored to enhance emotional and spiritual well-being and personal growth. From psychotherapy to spiritual direction and retreats, we are here to support your journey towards inner peace and wholeness.
We are based in both the US and the UK, working on-line and in person around the world. We work alongside and with various organisations and are backed by a board of professionals with a range of experience between them. Our organisation is an affiliated partner with the Association of Christian Counsellors.
Intensive EMDR
We offer one to one intensive residential EMDR retreats in the beautiful Somerset countryside. Every retreat is tailored to individual needs. The retreats are led by Beverley Hutton, who has extensive experience treating complex mental health conditions such as dissociative disorders, including DID, C-PTSD, Body Dysmorphia, chronic pain, etc., all of which respond particularly well to intensive EMDR.
Accommodation is within a self-catering apartment, with use of pool and gym within immediate vicinity to where therapy takes place.
Spiritual Direction
Becoming is not merely a journey of healing what hurts, but of becoming fully alive and fully beloved. Through prayer, therapy-informed practices, and inner healing, we discover that true transformation doesn't come from striving harder, but from learning to rest in God's unhurried presence.
Spiritual Direction invites you to deepen your relationship with God through active listening and discernment, helping you to notice where God is at work in every season of life. It is a space of sacred attentiveness where questions are honoured, silence is welcomed, and your journey is met with grace. Over time, you grow in awareness of the Spirit's gentle movements and your inner wisdom anchored in Christ.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT and EMDR
We provide a highly qualified trauma-informed psychotherapy service, offering a variety of evidence based psychological interventions for those suffering with complex emotional difficulties. We offer both weekly on-line and in person appointments. Modalities include EMDR, open-ended long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT, and a weekly on-line support group, all from a Compassion-focused Therapy approach. In person appointments and intensive EMDR take place in Somerset, whilst our on-line appointments support people these days from around the world.
We work with various conditions, including:
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C-PTSD and PTSD,
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Dissociative disorders including DID,
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Eating Disorders
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Anxiety and Depression,
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Emotional overwhelm and Burnout,
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Nightmares and Intrusive memories and Avoidance,
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Interpersonal and Relationship difficulties, along with other dysfunctional coping mechanisms. .
God in Mind Podcast - coming soon!
With God in Mind, the podcast, we hope create a space to talk more openly about mental health because we believe the Church can — and must — talk more openly about this subject. Here, we break the stigma through honest conversations, personal testimonies, and uplifting reflections.
Beverley and Ash, as co-hosts, attempt to bridge the gap between mental health and the church by breaking the stigma through open and honest conversations and powerful testimonies. Making sense of both clinical insights and theological perspectives in an accessible way. A space where healing and faith intersect.
Retreat Centre - coming soon!
As an extension of our vision, we envisage the establishment of The Eremos Place Retreat Centre. This accessible, sacred environment reflects the peace, beauty, and stillness at the heart of our work. This space will serve as a sanctuary for individuals, couples, churches, and organizations engaging in the Eremos journey.
Thoughtfully designed to nurture spiritual, emotional, and mental well-being, the retreat center will offer our full range of soul care services, including guided retreats, workshops, and contemplative gatherings. In this sacred environment, people will discover unhurried rhythms, embodied practices, and soul-nourishing resources that support deep healing, renewed belonging, and transformative communion with God. We long to create a place in the wilderness where weary hearts find rest, wounded stories are restored, and streams of renewal flow into lives and communities.
