ABOUT

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 Katie Welsford is an artist who works as a complementary therapist from Noddfa, her treatment space on the Welsh West Coast,

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Noddfa is a handcrafted, bespoke space designed for offering complementary therapies.​ Noddfa is a Welsh word meaning a haven, a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of welcome and peace, a place where you can regain energy. A perfect name for a treatment space.​

Katie is a complementary therapist & artist based in Moylegrove, just outside Cardigan, who has been supporting bodies with her creative bodywork for over eleven years. Katie works with her ‘toolkit’ of various bodywork techniques plus a combination of intuition, sensory perception & presence to allow the body to absorb a rich concoction of physical alchemy. Each treatment is a unique physical tonic & her offerings are trustful of the body's inner physician & its natural ability to heal & regain homeostasis.

Katie has a background in fine art & continues to practice as an artist. Her "Portfolio" of recent art work can be viewed here on the "Portfolio" dropdown page from the  "Art Practice" toolbar. Katie perceives her bodywork practice being entwined with her artistic practice as each discipline informs and inspires the other. She applies creativity to both aspects of her "work" & each one overlaps & merges with the other. Her body work is her body of work.

Katie's initial career started by studying fine art sculpture, then university lecturing, secondary school teaching  & now working in the wellbeing industry.

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Katie is fully insured and a member of the Federation for Holistic Therapists. She has a level 3 V.T.C.T Diploma, in Complementary Therapies.  Katie is trained in Upledger cranial sacral techniques, JING advanced clinical massage techniques, hot stone massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, body massage, Indian head massage, facial reflexology, hand reflexology, onsite massage, oncology reflexology and massage, pregnancy massage. Katie is trained in Jikiden reiki-Shoden (level 1) and Okoden (level 2). She'll continue to learn for the rest of her life.

 Katie has experience of offering complementary therapies in retreat centres, care homes, onsite in schools, hospitals & healthcare settings.

She has volunteered for the British Red Cross, PIPELINE & the NHS as a qualified breastfeeding peer supporter.

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Katie also works as a complementary therapist for Pembrokeshire's Paul Sartori Hospice at home, working in patients homes all over Pembrokeshire alongside the palliative clinical care team, offering patients complementary therapies at the end of their lives.​​

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