I’m Lift founder, Katie Welch. I know what it feels like to be physically and emotionally unbalanced.

Years of not looking after myself, an unfulfilling, high-pressure corporate career, and a complete lack of knowing what to do once I left it, drove me into the ground. I felt burnt-out, frozen, and detached, without being able to put my finger on why, and was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease, following an acute ‘thyroid storm’ episode in my late 30s.

It was still some years before I stopped ignoring the warning signs that the way I was living my life (past and present) was taking a toll on my physical and emotional wellbeing. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? But what I’m referring to goes beyond how much wine I was drinking, or how much I was or wasn’t exercising. While those lifestyle elements are intrinsic, I started gaining awareness of the parts of myself that I’d been repressing or denying, in some cases for my entire life.

An upsetting event in 2023 was a real rug-pull moment, which made me question my own judgement, and could have toppled the self-esteem that I’d been working so hard to build up over the years. I felt wronged, manipulated, and used. I still don’t know what made me search for ‘Reiki near me’ online - I’d never had it before and I didn’t know what it was. I booked an appointment with the amazing Kelly Kennedy and haven’t looked back. It has given me both an outlet and a tool box to rationalise, surrender to, and deal with everything that now comes my way. My dear ol’ Dad still (affectionately, I’d like to think) refers to it ‘as a load of old bollocks’ but, well, the thing is Dave, if it works, it works.

Through the gateway of Reiki, I found (again, fortuitously) a perfect-for-me Level 3 Diploma course with The Devon School of Clinical Reflexology in 2023, and completed it with Distinction, becoming a full member of the Association of Reflexologists.

I find power in blending complementary modalities to create multi-dimensional healing experiences, which is why I invoke Reiki energy before each treatment, and why you’ll see me offering sound/vibrational therapy as an optional extra. This gives me the opportunity to access different ‘bodies’, from the physical, to the subtle - the seat of your mind, emotions and energy field. From there, healing can be stimulated on every level, and true change can begin.