“Healing does not always look like improvement. Sometimes it looks like feeling safe. Sometimes it looks like being believed by your own body again.”

A warm reflection on why it matters to become a dementia informed practitioner

Whoop! Whoop Exciting News! I’m thrilled to have been named a finalist in the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT) Excellence Awards 2025 in the Innovation category.

As verbal communication fades, touch becomes even more important—it becomes a bridge. A way to say “I’m here” without needing words.

Read Nicolle’s expanded version of a previous blog now published in the FHT’s International Therapist Spring 2025 issue on how her mother’s influence led to her journey into a specialism igniting a passion to spread dementia...