Mel Jay
Our practitioner directory connects you with practitioners and facilitators who have completed training through the Mahu Therapeutics Practitioner Program. Each practitioner brings their own lived experience, cultural lens, professional background and unique way of working.
While their approaches may differ, they have been trained with a shared foundation of trauma-informed and responsive practice, emotional safety, nervous system awareness, ethical facilitation and respect for the whole person.
This directory is a space to discover practitioners who are taking this learning into their own communities, practices and spaces, while developing an approach that is authentically their own.
Sarah
2025 cohort
Kia ora, I’m Sarah.
I’m a trauma-responsive facilitator, early childhood educator, and the human behind Conscious Early Learning.
This work isn’t something I’ve just studied - I’ve lived it. I know what it feels like to be overwhelmed, dysregulated, and trying to hold it all together… while small humans are having big feelings right in front of you. I also know what it’s like to face your own patterns, take responsibility for your healing, and choose a different way forward - not perfectly, but consciously.
My work is grounded in nervous system awareness, co-regulation, and compassionate connection. I support parents and educators to understand behaviour through a deeper lens, so you can respond instead of react (most of the time… we’re human).
Through Conscious Early Learning, I offer practical, in-the-moment tools that actually work in real life - in homes, in centres, and in those micro-moments where everything feels like a lot.
This work isn’t about getting it right all the time. It’s about building safety, repair, and trust - within yourself, and with the children in your care.
Anna
2025 cohort
Kia ora, I’m Anna.
I’m currently enjoying a change of pace from my career in the mountains.
I’m gathering the threads of my life experience and study to become a guide for groups and individuals to explore their emotional landscapes.
Alongside my facilitator training, I have also completed training in rongoā and offer bodywork, bringing together an embodied approach that recognises the connection between our emotional and physical experiences.
I’m continuing to explore how these different threads of learning, experience and practice can weave together in the way I support others.
You can contact me at annaloomes@proton.me
