Mel Collins

Mel Collins is a British author, psychotherapeutic counsellor and spiritual teacher who has worked mainly with highly sensitive people and empaths for some twenty years. Before that she spent a decade in the prison service, first as a counsellor and then for eight years as a prison governor, and finding her own sensitivity tested in that setting led her to study the trait closely. Alongside an integrative counselling diploma, she trained in Reiki to master level, in Deep Memory Process regression with the Jungian therapist Roger Woolger, and as an accredited spiritual healer.

Her Handbook for Highly Sensitive People, published by Watkins in 2019 with a foreword by the broadcaster Jeremy Vine, has since been translated into about a dozen languages, and she followed it with a pocket book of affirmations for sensitive people. Based in Devon, she sees a small number of clients each month, in person or online, for sessions that weave together coaching, transpersonal work and energy healing, and she advises as an HSP consultant. Her workshops cover high sensitivity, affirmations, EFT tapping, energy protection, angels and the sacred feminine, and she speaks to businesses and at events such as the College of Psychic Studies in London. On Insight Timer she shares angelic and Mary Magdalene meditations.