THE GUIDE

Hi, I'm Chrissie

Portrait of Chrissie Catling looking at the camera indoors.

Anchored in the depths of personal experience, my approach is holistic and integrative, intersecting Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapy, Intuitive, Somatic and Liberatory Practices.

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MY STORY

I have walked this path myself

My life was shaped by adverse childhood experiences and a depth of sensitivity that, for decades, made the world a difficult and overwhelming place to inhabit.

I felt everything deeply — not only my own disquiet, but the unspoken undercurrents within others and the world around me.

Alongside this was a persistent sense that I did not belong, and that I could not connect with life in the way I so deeply desired.

For years I achieved outwardly while inwardly just surviving — building successful creative businesses while quietly carrying a deep inner pain, and the symptoms that hindered so much of my life, that despite everything I tried, remained.

THE SEARCH FOR HEALING

Four decades of enquiry

I sought solace and healing across traditional, integrative, and holistic medicine, alongside shamanic and metaphysical practice — four decades of enquiry into higher consciousness.

Looking back, I recognise how I dismantled my first business — the successful face I showed the world became too much to sustain when inwardly I could not support myself.

I spent the following decade eking out an alternative, fragile lifestyle in search of answers, only to return to launch a second long-term company, still inwardly challenged.

In the end, everything collapsed.

Burnout, grief, loss, and major surgery — and the weight of it all — brought me to a complete standstill, not only professionally, but within my life as a whole.

WHAT CAME NEXT

What I now offer was shaped by a lifetime of lived experience

What I now offer was shaped by a lifetime of lived experience — brought into form through that standstill and the slow, unglamorous work of rebuilding that followed. But it was also inspirational — for it was the opening of so much more.

A specialist in Advanced RTT, Intuitive, Somatic and Liberatory Practices, I now guide others in this way — with professional training deepened by years of practice, and the lived experience that no training alone can provide.

I do this work because I know what it means to sense that your life is worth more than the suffering — and to finally find
the work that reaches it.

With love,

HOW I WORK

A holistic and integrative approach

Every session is supported by a framework of tools, strategies, intuition, experience and deep wisdom, held with genuine respect and care for what surfaces along the way.

I work as a guide — you are the one who finds your own answers. Together, we meet and reframe the root cause of what is troubling you: the limiting pattern, belief, trigger or sense of disconnection your subconscious mind formed around certain times in your life.

There is also space to release what has been held in the body.

Together, these elements support your return to your true nature.

EXPLORE SUCCESS STORIES

Giving back

AYOH is proud to support organisations creating meaningful change for people and planet, including UNICEF Australia and the Global Rewilding Alliance.