Exhausted, Anxious or Emotionally Drained? Breathwork in Gillingham, Kent
Breathwork and bodywork to help you feel more grounded and connected to yourself.
Healing Breath offers gentle breathwork and body-based sessions in Gillingham, Medway and across Kent for people who feel stuck in stress, anxiety, overwhelm or emotional exhaustion.
You might notice yourself constantly overthinking, feeling emotionally drained, unable to fully relax, disconnected from yourself, easily overwhelmed, reactive, shut down, or always “pushing through” just to get by.
Many people also notice patterns like holding their breath, tension in the body, struggling to switch off, people pleasing, difficulty resting, or feeling like their nervous system is always on alert.
These responses are often the body’s way of trying to protect you after spending too long under stress or pressure.
This work is not about being calm all the time or trying to force change.
The nervous system is designed to move through different states in response to life. Problems tend to happen when we get stuck in stress, overwhelm, anxiety, numbness or shutdown for long periods of time.
Using conscious connected breathwork and nervous system-informed bodywork, sessions are designed to gently help your system become more flexible and supported, so you can move through life with more ease and spend less time stuck in survival patterns.
The focus is on safety, pacing and working with your body, not against it.
Over time, this can help you feel more present, emotionally connected, resilient, and better able to respond to life without becoming overwhelmed by it.
When Your Nervous Systems Feels Overwhelmed
You might notice:
- constantly feeling on edge or alert
- overthinking or difficulty switching off
- feeling overwhelmed by small things
- tension held in your body
- cycles you understand, but can’t seem to change
This isn’t a lack of effort or awareness.
It’s often a sign that your nervous system doesn’t yet have the capacity to fully process what it’s holding.
Supporting Your Nervous System Capacity
When the body has been under pressure for a long time, it naturally adapts through survival patterns, ways of coping that once helped you get through, but may now feel limiting, overwhelming, or exhausting.
This work isn’t about being calm or regulated all the time. Our nervous system isn't designed to stay in one state.
It’s about building more flexibility and capacity within the nervous system, so you can move through life with greater ease, recover more easily from stress, and spend less time feeling stuck in overwhelm, shutdown, or disconnection.
Over time, this can help you feel more present, more connected to yourself, and more able to respond to life rather than simply react to it.
My Approach
My work is trauma-informed, meaning sessions are guided at your pace, with a strong focus on safety, respecting boundaries, supportive, consent, and nervous system awareness.
Ways to Work with Healing Breath in Gillingham, Kent
If you're feeling anxious, exhausted, or like you've lost touch with yourself, breathwork offers a gentle, guided way back to your body's inner wisdom and intelligence. I'm Clare, and I support people across Gillingham, Medway and the wider Kent area with trauma-informed breathwork and bodywork, delivered with warmth and care.
Two ways to experience breathwork with me
Private 1:1 sessions to help you feel safe in your body again
Private, gentle sessions to help you feel safe in your body again, held in the comfort of your own space, at your own pace.
Perfect if you're carrying stress, anxiety, or a difficult period in life and want dedicated, one-to-one support.
Join a warm, welcoming group, experiencing breathwork together
Join a warm, welcoming group and experience breathwork together, no experience needed.
Perfect if you're drawn to shared energy, community, and trying breathwork for the first time alongside others.
Breathwork Has Changed How I Navigate Life
My Quality of Life Has Improved
I was living in 'survival mode' for the majority of my life without realising it, feeling disconnected from my body, wearing a mask that showed the outside world I was managing, but my inner world was a different story. My nervous system was living in the familiarity of 'fight/flight', based on my dysfunctional upbringing.
I experienced anxiety, tension, and feeling on edge, without fully understanding why. My behavioural patterns showed in my relationship with money and being a spendaholic, having unhealthy relationship dynamics, being a workaholic and having low emotional intelligence.
Training as a Breathwork and Bodywork has given me a new lease of life and a healthier relationship with my body, mind and spirit. Every day I spend time learning and listening to what my body signals to me every day, using the many practices that I've learnt and continue to learn in my skills to hold space for others. Whether it's a 1:1 setting, group work or wellbeing events.
All the experiences that I've been trained in for the last 2 years has helped shape how I work today.
Healing Breath at the Kent Wellness Festival 2026
Clare founder of Healing Breath facilitated a one hour workshop at this year's Kent Wellness Festival 2026.
Testimonials for Healing Breath
What people have experienced with breathwork, including when combined with hypnosis.
All participants gave permission to publicly share their experiences.
Online Breathwork Session
Working and breathing with Clare has been transformational. Her mix of hypnotherapy with therapeutic breathwork and bodywork is profound. I always feel safe and contained and allowed to feel all I am, as I am.
I’ve really felt a homecoming to myself, to my body and true essence when she holds me!
Jacky
1:1 Session
In-person Breathwork Session
It's definitely something that everyone should try, the body awareness is very enlightening.
I just want to say thank you, I was a little apprehensive going in to the session, but you made me feel very comfortable and safe, thank you.
Jo
Attended a Group Workshop
In-person Breathwork Session
Paying attention on each and every individual, I felt very listened to and connected throughout the session. E.g. when I shared my experience having my young daughter, traumatic childbirth.
I felt very seen, heard and held during the session. I really liked the hands-on technique, I felt the support and didn’t feel alone.
Private client
Attended a Group Workshop
Healing Breath 1:1 Session Options & Fees
Sessions are guided responsively according to your needs on the day and may include conscious connected breathing, grounding practices, somatic awareness, restorative support, nervous system regulation, and body-based therapeutic approaches.
Private Practice Sessions - Private practice sessions are available at:
- Maidstone
- Rainham
£100 — 90 minute session
Please note that private practice sessions are subject to room availability, as therapeutic spaces are privately hired in advance for each booking.
Home Visit Sessions - Sessions in your home are available where appropriate.
£90 — 90 minute session
Online Sessions - Online sessions take place via Jitsi Meet.
£75 — 90 minute session