About Kerry & The Holistic Dojo
✨ Who I Am
Hi, I’m Kerry Tidman – a deaf, neurodivergent, care-experienced therapist, coach, and advocate.
I know what it feels like to burn out in systems not built for you. To be dismissed, excluded, or made to feel your identity was too much. After years working in schools and frontline services, I created The Holistic Dojo as a sanctuary for people like us.
A place to come home to yourself, rebuild your confidence, and begin healing from the harm of trauma, burnout, discrimination, and identity loss.
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🌿 What is The Holistic Dojo?
The Holistic Dojo isn’t just a therapy business. It’s a space for healing, growth, and belonging.
✅ Dojo – a Japanese word meaning place of the way, a dedicated space for learning, practice, and transformation
✅ Holistic – supporting all parts of you – mind, body, emotions, identity, and spirit
Here, therapy, coaching, advocacy, and creative expression come together to help you reclaim who you are and live unapologetically.
✨ What is The Belonging Dojo CIC?
The Belonging Dojo CIC is our registered Community Interest Company (CIC) under The Holistic Dojo umbrella.
🌱 Company Number: 16531089
It exists to create funded and low-cost services for our community, including:
- Trauma-informed therapy and identity coaching
- Empowerment and self-leadership programmes
- Deaf awareness and disability inclusion training in schools and organisations
We believe everyone deserves spaces of healing, belonging, and growth – especially those who’ve been excluded from mainstream services.
💛 My Approach
I don’t offer surface-level solutions. I offer deep, soul-led transformation through:
🌟 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) – unlearning noise and realigning with what truly matters
🌟 Kintsugi Philosophy – embracing your cracks as part of your beauty, not something to hide
🌟 Person-centred therapy – holding space with warmth, trust, and zero judgement
🌟 Lived experience – I don’t speak from theory, I speak from truth
🌟 Coaching & Advocacy – supporting you to rebuild your identity, self-leadership, and sense of belonging
Whether you’re here for personal therapy and coaching or to explore our CIC community programmes, The Holistic Dojo is your space to feel seen, supported, and never “too much.”
💛 You were never too much. You were just carrying too much.
