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For exasperated artists, writers and other tremulous creatives

The Undoing

A space for letting go of emotional tangles and mental knots.

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For exasperated artists, writers and other tremulous creatives

The Undoing

A space for letting go of emotional tangles and mental knots.

Get in touchTry a recording first

Who made this?

Sally Underwood. Royal Academy postgraduate. Fifteen years writing for investment banks. Trauma-informed bodywork practitioner. Twelve years of Sedona Method practice. Enough experience to know what actually works.

Berlin, online EN / DE (understands German, facilitates in English)

Das Gemälde „Selbstporträt mit Stab“ von Maria Lassnig (1971)

Maria Lassnig, Das Gemälde „Selbstporträt mit Stab“, 1971 (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0)

01 / 03 A quote, a painting

The vocabulary of one's self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

— Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer

· 01 The Pivot

“Sometimes we are responsible for things not because they are our fault, but because we are the only ones who can change them.”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain (2020)

Groan.
How much more must you do?
Another pithy self-help observation that sounds like empowerment but lands like obligation.

— And yet

These are the words of a serious neuroscientist offering a different account of experience: not something triggered, not something given, but a thing the brain constructs in real time from memory, context, culture and body. That changes what the work has to be.

· 02 The diagnosis

The actual problem. It isn't what you think it is.

What's named

Most people who find their way here have already named the problem many times. Anxiety. Creative block. Relationship patterns. Self-sabotage. Procrastination. The inner critic that won’t shut up.

These are real. But they are symptoms of something underneath — a self that never quite formed into something reliable.

It hasn’t persisted because you lack effort, understanding, tools, or discipline. It isn’t even fully explained by a difficult childhood.

The self is not something you discover. It is something the brain constructs, continuously, from the materials available. If those materials were inconsistent, the construction is unstable. You didn’t cause that. You wouldn’t have chosen it.

Oskar Schlemmer, Triadisches Ballett, Die Bühne im Bauhaus. Band 4, 1925. (Public Domain - PD-Germany-§134 KUG)

02 / 03 A quote, a Bauhaus ballet

"When I look at my life I realise the mistakes I really regret were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling."

— Jeanette Winterson, author

A single question

What if this is it, this
life, now?

Not the new life that comes once you've found the right therapist, the right partner, the right breakthrough. This one.

03 The work has two elements

What we actually do together.

Not analysis. Not reframing. Not interpretation. Two distinct movements, working in alternation across a session.

First phase: Listen, stories, all is welcome here

What's here?

An expanded version of the Sedona Method — a structured process for releasing emotional discomfort and invasive thought loops. Not analysing. Not reframing. Releasing. Easy to learn, surprisingly fast.

Second phase: Sedona Method, trauma-informed

Releasing

Action — writing, drawing, making, doing — inside a structured space. A coherent self is not built through introspection alone. It’s built through acting, surviving the discomfort of acting, and discovering you had more agency than you believed.

László Moholy-Nagy, Jealousy, 1927, photomontage (Public Domain - PD-Germany-§134 KUG)

03 / 03 A quote, a photomontage

"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."

— Jeanette Winterson, author

· 02 Fit

Who this is for.

Perhaps some of this sounds familiar ...

You are intelligent and self-aware — and neither has solved the problem.
You find most coaching offers too reductive, too focused on practicalities you can already work out alone.
You have a persistent sense that your life is smaller than it could be, and can’t name exactly why.
You feel a deep sense of wrongness — or not-good-enoughness — at odds with your external situation.
You are sick of being told that seeing clearly is “being negative”.
You want to be taken seriously and listened to, rather than treated or managed.

— This is not a good fit if

You are in acute mental health crisis. Please seek qualified support.
You are looking for advice, or for someone to tell you what to do.
You need a promise of transformation that will make everything easy.

· 05 — Working together

One session shifts something. Three is where patterns start to unravel

€280 · three sessions · one hour each

Individual sessions, built entirely around what you bring. No standard script, no programme to follow.

Audio recordings after each session, between-session support by email and phone, plus one or two short releases recorded specifically for you.

Book your first session here
Guarantee. Complete all three sessions and feel you haven't benefited — say so in the final session and I refund in full. No argument, no conditions.

· 05 About

I'm Sally. Here's the bit you need to know

Training and practice

Sedona Method facilitator with twelve years of practice — combined with training in trauma-informed body work, clinical hypnosis, trading psychology, creative process and over of a decade of experience working one-to-one with clients and leading groups.

The rest of my background is unusual for this kind of work and I think that matters. Six years studying fine art in London at Chelsea then the Royal Academy. Fifteen years writing complex technical documentation for investment banks. Trading. Making things, including some gut-wrenchingly bad mistakes.

Not a therapist

Not a certified life coach

No weird guru vibes or spiritual gaslighting

— I am someone with twelve years of practice and an unusual education.
— I am someone who has done this work on themselves first.— I am someone you can w

07 From clients

What people actually say.

I spent time with Sally in a Rapid Resolution Session yesterday. I am learning a new skill and was...Read More >

Jeannie Thomas

Outstanding! Sally is such a skilled and powerful healer. I have had multiple sessions with her and have had major...Read More >

Ali Amin

Sally was very kind and effective. I felt great respect from her.. She is a brilliant therapist who intends...Read More >

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