Maren Aldous
Founder · Lead Practitioner
IFS and somatic recovery specialist. Founded Ferncross after fifteen years in clinical services convinced that people heal faster when no one is rushing them.
The practice
behind the quiet.
Ferncross has always been small on purpose. Enough hands to hold the work; few enough that no one becomes a number.
Our beginning
Our story
It started with a question nobody was answering.
What if recovery didn't have to be a race?
In 2014, Maren Aldous left a busy clinical service frustrated by the same pattern: people were assessed, processed, and discharged before they'd had the chance to actually heal. The emotional work and the practical work were treated as separate departments - and people fell through the gap between them.
Ferncross was her answer. A practice where the inner-child session and the benefits appeal could happen in the same week, with the same team, at a pace the person actually set. Today we're a tight circle of twelve practitioners doing exactly that - slowly, and well.
What we believe
Four principles we don't compromise on.
01 - PACE
Your timeline, not ours
Nobody heals on a billing cycle. We move at the speed of trust, even when that's slow.
02 - WHOLENESS
Inner and practical, together
Feelings and forms are the same fight. We refuse to treat them as separate problems.
03 - SAFETY
Trauma-informed by default
Every session is designed so progress never costs you re-injury. Safety is the floor, not a feature.
04 - DIGNITY
You never have to perform
No proving how bad it is to deserve help. You arrive as you are, and that's enough.
The people
Twelve practitioners. Three you'll meet first.
Every person who walks through Ferncross is matched with a lead - the human who holds the thread of your whole journey.
Tomas Oyelaran
Access & Advocacy Lead
Former welfare-rights caseworker. Tomas treats documentation as a form of care and has guided hundreds through applications and appeals that felt impossible.
Rhona Velasco
Self-Image & Confidence
Works at the meeting point of body, image and self-worth - helping people feel genuinely at home in how they show up to the world.
Come as you are
Curious whether we'd be a good fit?
The honest answer is: we'll know together, on a call. No assessment, no pressure - just a conversation about what you're carrying.