People first.
Therapy shaped around you.
We believe good therapy begins with understanding the person in front of us: what you’re experiencing, what matters to you, and what you want help with.
A shared clinical and teaching background.
We’re Gareth Strangemore-Jones and Enfys Jones, co-founders of Alchemy Life Therapy. You know your life from the inside. We bring therapeutic skills, experience, and different ways of approaching the difficulties you face. Our work grows through that partnership.
We are both Mental Health First Aiders, Pluralistic Counsellors, Clinical Psychotherapists, Consultant Medical Hypnotherapists, Mindfulness Teachers, and PGCE-trained Teachers.
Being teachers as well as therapists shapes how we work. We make space for questions, explain ideas clearly, and help you connect what happens in a session with everyday life.
Gareth
Strangemore-Jones
Gareth brings 20 years’ experience across mental health and education. Together, Gareth and Enfys have delivered more than 25,000 therapeutic sessions, including more than 15,000 online.
His approach combines a space to speak openly with practical exploration of thoughts, emotions, behaviour, relationships, and the pressures of everyday life. Sessions may draw on pluralistic counselling, solution focused approaches, hypnotherapy, mindfulness, and accessible explanations informed by neuroscience.
Gareth’s practice is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and LGBTQ+ inclusive. He is also trained in suicide awareness.
His experience includes therapeutic and educational programmes for organisations such as NHS Wales, the Welsh Government, Cardiff Education Authority, MIND, UNISON, and Marie Curie Cancer Care. He has taught in schools, colleges, and universities and worked with athletes and performers.
Alongside Alchemy Life Therapy, Gareth is Founder, CEO & Clinical Lead of Mental Health Matrix. He is an author, journalist, and broadcaster whose writing explores mental health, neurodiversity, relationships, personal growth, and the neuroscience of everyday life.
Book with Gareth ↗Enfys Jones
Enfys brings more than two decades of experience in mental health, wellbeing, and education supporting individuals, couples, and groups. Her work combines warmth and careful listening with a practical interest in what will help you feel more able to meet the demands of your life.
She draws on pluralistic counselling, psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, medical hypnotherapy, mindfulness, and therapeutic life coaching, according to your needs and preferences.
This included ten years in primary teaching with postgraduate training in additional learning needs. Enfys has also taught at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and brings an extensive background in dance, music, theatre, and performance.
Her therapeutic and wellbeing work has included projects with Cardiff Council, Cardiff Education Authority, NHS Wales screening nurses, Marie Curie, community groups, and workplace teams. She has also provided bereavement and PTSD support through the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Alongside her clinical practice, Enfys offers intuitive and reflective work through The Rainbow Alchemist, her separate practice. At Alchemy Life Therapy, appointments focus on the clinical therapy or therapeutic coaching you have chosen.
Book with Enfys ↗An approach you can help shape.
Pluralistic counselling recognises that different people may benefit from different approaches at different times. We discuss what you want from therapy, explain possible ways of working, and review how things are going. Your feedback matters throughout.
You can tell us when something helps, when it doesn’t, or when you want to try a different direction.
You can start here.
You don’t need the perfect words. We’ll help you find a starting point.
Questions you may have
Who are Gareth Strangemore-Jones and Enfys Jones?
Gareth and Enfys are the practitioners behind Alchemy Life Therapy. Their backgrounds span mental health and education, including counselling, psychotherapy, medical hypnotherapy, mindfulness and teaching.
Is Alchemy Life Therapy one clinical provider?
Alchemy Life Therapy is a shared trading and marketing banner for two independent sole traders. Your chosen practitioner is responsible for the therapy they provide. Their individual booking links are on the Book us page.