Bio

Meet Mira Watson...

Mira Watson is a Trauma-trained Parenting Facilitator who works with worried and frustrated parents struggling with emotional and behavioural difficulties in their children. She helps them to stay calm, connect with their children and get them feeling happier about themselves. They start to thrive again. As a result parents get more confident and home life becomes relaxing and enjoyable again.

Mira knows that to support neuro-divergent and highly sensitive children, parents need to learn something called Embodied Parenting. This is a way of being that helps parents connect with their body sensation and figure out how to create relational safety for the child. This helps these children overcome their issues and continue developing. And this starts with the parent learning to do this for themselves, and discovering how their particular children function and what they need. She has dozens of testimonials from thankful parents who had taken their children to top specialists around the world, yet it wasn't until they started working with Mira that things started to shift and transform.

Mira authored a research paper for the British Council in 1994 on the importance of parental attention in determining cognitive development in street children in Mexico. This paper was used to determine policy for a large child support NGO for all their educators and facilitators. Since then she has worked with hundreds of children, initially in a tutoring capacity for children with learning difficulties, and then with their parents. She has researched solutions for anxiety, ADHD, Tourette’s, Asperger’s and rare genetic conditions firsthand and found ways to improve functioning and alleviate suffering for multiple families in different cultures. She has spent thirty years creating a methodology that is individualised, fast, and very effective in getting the most vulnerable children support from their parents in a simple, organic process that any person can achieve.

Mira is qualified as a Family Constellation Practitioner, a Craniosacral Therapist, a trauma resolution practitioner, an Advanced Ancestral Clearing Practitioner, an expert in High Sensitivity and Highly Sensitive Children, is a private tutor for children and has worked alongside a natural birthing practitioner treating newborn babies. She has combined her observations about what makes for raising highly sensitive and neurodivergent children so they stay connected with their own souls and thrive into a system she calls Embodied Parenting which is the core of her teaching.

In a recent client's words:

My daughter (E) hated going to school or being separated from me in any way. Her hyperactivity and impulsivity were causes for my concern - I couldn't understand WHY she did most of the things she did, at home or at school. It felt like a fight, being constantly alert to the next problem that might arise. I didn't know how to handle problems when they did arise as they seemed irrational to me and I tried to fix them and move on. This wasn't helping, but was the only way I knew how to act. I decided to take Mira's programme when 
there was a major issue at school; my daughter was being bullied badly, something she had kept hidden for months. But even before this came to light I'd decided Mira was the one for us - to help us understand one another better. Mira has a lovely understanding without labels. My daughter is Highly Sensitive. I came to see that as a gift, not a problem.

The changes since we have been working with Mira are amazing. My child is calmer because I am calmer. I try very hard not to fix her problems, therefore I'm not on edge waiting for them. I no longer interrogate her about her day, looking for what might be bothering her. I now trust her to tell me (or I look out for little clues that there might be a problem, and I chuck in some 'Mira Wisdom'! I listen to how she is feeling instead. If she wants my help she knows I will give it, but I've learnt to listen first.

My child is far more confident about her abilities. She is incredibly intelligent but was feeling 'dumb' as she didn't learn like the other children. We manage that feeling, and she is steaming ahead in her work, in her own way.

The parenting work was enlightening. I had no idea who I was or why, until we gently worked through a lot of situations in my parenting life. I told Mira I didn't want to re-live a lot of things - I'm a 'burier' and prefer it that way. She let me stay buried but managed to (somewhat miraculously) get straight to it without me noticing! By the last month I was having 'lightbulb' moments on a daily basis. It all came together and by working on me, Mira seemed to change the whole dynamic in the house. It's not so much 'parenting education' as 'human awareness'. Since doing the programe E now has her times-tables badge! I regularly get emails home from school about how impressed the teachers are with her effort. She has learnt how to be more assertive and stand her ground, especially at school. I don't worry that she is going to get bullied any more. It's no fun to bully someone who has an arsenal of defensive strategies! She smiles with her eyes, too, now.

The pressure on me to be a fixer has been lifted. It's much easier to be a listener and that is what other people want from me - who knew?! That has had knock on effects in almost everything I do. Now I need to take a leaf out of my daughter's book and learn to say what I think about things without fear of conflict.

All in all we are a far more harmonious and understanding household. E knows what I struggle with and I understand her far better. We will always have a rather more 'busy' household than some other people, but as long as we are enjoying it, that's ok. And if we are finding it tough, we know how to find Mira."

Mira holds a BA and MA in Social Anthropology from Kings College, Cambridge University, and an MSc. in Development Studies from SOAS, London. 

Outside her passion for supporting parents and sensitive children, she runs an organic farm full of rescue animals (and lots of cats). She loves reintroducing people to spending time in nature and the benefits of growing your own food. She also teaches 5 rhythms dance and plays the cello.