As a believer and dedicate of honing mind, body and soul, and also understanding their traumas and scars, I met a kindred spirit in Dan, from our first casual conversation. With Willow Tree Mind & Body, Dan is ahead of the psychotherapeutic curve of marrying speech/talk counselling, with the somatic work the body needs to release old wounds and purge itself.

I found out personally, that talk therapy alone, does not clear the emotional and traumatic hurts of our body keeping the score - as Dr Bessel Van De Kolk, has written about. Having a two hour session with Dan was excellent. With the first pertaining to what felt like two self-aware men having a good ol' chat, and the second hour where Dan got his hands, elbows and massage gun in my taut kickboxer's back, neck and shoulders - where, he added, I'd been carrying much of my recent mental and emotional pains. I've had therapy. I've had sport's massages. But combining them into one session, was a revelation.

I can't recommend Dan and Willow Tree enough as the new-age way of us understanding, our body and mind and soul, are interlinked in our joys and our pains, and should not be treated like separate problems.

Just be prepared - the following days, as is usual with therapy and sports massages - will be emotional, tiresome and heavy. But that is what was blocked, releasing through you.

Thank you so much, Dan, you are a welcoming and kind gentleman. I look forward to another two hour blockbuster!