Ivan Broad

I am trained in Conscious Connected Breathing following a 3 year training program with First-Breath in Worcestershire. All of the training was in person and included hot and cold tub breathing. I then graduated as a Workshop Leader following a further 12 months of training which included running breathing circles, running a workshop in Breathwork and developing group facilitation skills. I supported the key trainer for 2 years at First-Breath in training other students and taught modules in 2024 about attachment patterns that show up somatically in our work.

I brought group skills with me into Breathwork after working in a prison Therapeutic Community for 10 years. Group therapy was my daily work between 2008 and 2018 and working with groups of 20 and 40 residents at a time taught me a lot about group dynamics, conscious and unconscious processes. Managing conflict and high levels of intense waves if energy between therapeutic community members grew my ability to hold space.

The therapeutic community work lead me to notice the need for more time and space in therapy sessions. I trained in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy which gave me all the space I needed. This is where I really became interested in energy work because the horses communicate through energy and body language more directly. Equine taught me about how internal processes show up externally in relationship to an other.

Specialising more in trauma work when I left the prison and set up in full time private practice I trained in EMDR in 2018 and have more recently trained with Ruella Frank in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy (2024/25).

I have had many profound and healing sessions of Breathwork. PTSD from childhood sexual abuse held me back in my life for so long. Breathwork helped me leap forward into reclaiming my body and expression of myself following over 200 hours of personal Breathwork sessions and over 1000 training hours in the modality.

I have been through 25 years of therapy myself and continue to work through my own blocks. I continue to develop my skills so that I can be fully present and supportive to those that I work with.

I work 121 with clients in Stoke on Trent, Macclesfield and Burton on Trent. I run a group breathe once a month in Checkley Stoke on Trent and Checkley Breathing Circle is the Facebook group.

I am a qualified clinical supervisor with 15 years experience of supporting therapists with their client work. I am hugely passionate about all therapy work and helping others to heal themselves.