Some lives grow from the inside out, shaped not by ambition but by listening – to land, to language, to the quiet pulse of memory. Niamh’s work has grown this way – slowly, generationally, and always in relationship with place.

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Born and raised in the Cailleach country of West Cork, her path was never a straight one. In her late teens she turned to psychology not to diagnose or treat, but to understand – to make sense of the unspoken undercurrents in those around her. That curiosity opened into decades of learning, tending, and making – drawn from many traditions, yet always brought back to the soil of her own.

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Her studies have carried her through the halls of universities and the hearths of older traditions alike. She immersed herself in psychology in Dublin, deepened into Jungian shadow work and Hermetic philosophy abroad, and trained in the healing arts of body and breath. Over more than twenty-five years her inquiry has followed the subtle threads of psychosomatic illness, trauma imprinting, genetic inheritance, and cellular memory – always listening for the conversation between body and soul.

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Her life’s work now moves at the meeting place of the mythic and the clinical, the academic and the ancestral. Alongside formal study came the folkways of plant and stone – herbal medicine, nutrition, bodywork, and the teachings of indigenous soul beliefs. She trained with the Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts, became a Reiki and Seichem master, and learned to hold thresholds as both birth and death doula. For her, these studies were never badges, but tools she carries with reverence.

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Recognised by peers as a pioneer in crystal healing and energetic architecture, her mandalas and harmonic installations have travelled the world, as have her retreats, workshops, and ceremonies – spanning more than thirty countries.

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A naturalist and self-taught ethnobotanist, she is most at home out on the land – walking in the company of her pack, listening to the weather’s shift, the flight of birds, the quiet speech of plants and stone. What brings her ease is not crowds, but the steady companionship of the more-than-human world. She is an avid forager, a lover of raw and wild food, and a student of sacred ecology and cultural tradition. Her lifelong care for animals includes work with sanctuaries in Ireland, Austria, America, Australia, and India.

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Her work is shaped by the terrain in which it is made – whether tending community clinics in West Cork, working with refugees in the Balkans, creating trauma-informed habitat restoration in the Alps, or guiding her online hedge school through the seasons of the Celtic Wheel.

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At the heart of it all is story – not as entertainment, but as lifeblood. Every ritual, every gathering, every spirithouse of scent or word she offers is born from the old belief that land and imagination are one, and that healing happens not in isolation, but in kinship – with the earth, with each other, and with what has been forgotten.

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She is a publisher, a writer, and a maker of things that carry meaning. The books she is now shaping, the courses offered through her hedge school, and the seasonal offerings of her shop are not commodities but continuations of conversation – between plant and person, sky and stone, grief and beauty.

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Niamh now lives between two worlds – the Atlantic edges of Ireland and the high mountain passes of Central Europe. Between sea and snow, she traces the old migratory lines, listening always for what wishes to return through her. Hers is not a career, but a lifelong tending – an offering to what endures.

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If you would like to get in touch, she can be reached via the contact form on this website.