About Inscension

Inscension is a practitioner formation grounded in a simple premise:

If you want to hold others in depth, you must be willing to meet depth in yourself. This is a descent led process that leads us to Inscension.

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The Inscension Faculty

Deborah Maloney-Marsden - Founder & Inscension Architect

Deborah Maloney-Marsden

Founder

I am a transpersonal psychotherapist with over seventeen years of experience working across individual, relational, group, and immersive settings.

My work integratestranspersonal psychotherapy, somatic and developmental approaches, breathwork, psychodynamic process, somatic EMDR, and work with expanded states. Over the years, my practice has taken me repeatedly into places where technique alone stops being useful. Into early pre-verbal trauma, into complex relational and group dynamics, into states of intensity, fragmentation, meaning-making, and transformation that cannot be managed through theory or protocol.

What has mattered most in these spaces is not what I know, but the capacity I bring - to stay present, to track what is moving across body, psyche, relationship, and field, and to hold depth without rushing to contain or explain it away. This is the ground from which Inscension has emerged.

I am founding Inscension because, after many years in practice and training environments, I do not see enough spaces that genuinely form practitioners to work at this level. Many trainings are excellent -competent, ethical, and well-intentioned, but they rarely develop the full human capacity required to meet what actually arises in depth work. What is often missing is sustained exposure to process, to relational and collective dynamics, and to the internal shifts required to work responsibly with intensity and complexity.

Inscension is my response to that gap. It is an inside-out formation, shaped by the work itself rather than by external frameworks. It is designed to support practitioners to develop depth through lived process - psychologically, somatically, relationally, and transpersonally over time.

Over the coming years, the Inscesnion faculty and graduates will come together to hold, teach, and steward the training, each bringing their own lineage, perspective, and capacity into the shared field of the community.

My work today is held primarily within immersive containers: intensive one-to-one work, group and field-based process. deborahmaloney.com

Abigail Iquo Isuo - Psychotherapy Diploma Director

Deborah Maloney-Marsden

Founder

Our fullest potential is not something to be earned. It is our birthright. The work is remembering it.

Abigail is an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist with over twenty five years of experience working with individuals, couples, and groups. She is a retreat leader within the Path of Love lineage, and the creator and facilitator of long-form transformational retreats, including feminine-centred initiatory journeys and the Masterpiece retreat series.

Abigail's work is rooted in psychospiritual depth, relational inquiry, somatic awareness, breathwork, and systemic constellations. Over the past two and half decades, she has specialised in holding extended group processes that invite profound psychological, emotional, and transpersonal transformation. These spaces move beyond conventional therapeutic settings, engaging the collective field as a living, revelatory context for insight, healing, and integration.

She works with people who recognise that their difficulties are not pathologies to be corrected, but meaningful thresholds in their development. Anxiety, relational conflict, identity rupture, loss, and existential questioning are often signals that something deeper is asking to be met. When approached with courage, discernment, and containment, these moments can become catalysts for maturation, coherence, and embodied truth.

Abigail's approach is bespoke, relational, and uncompromising in its respect for the psyche. She does not offer techniques detached from context, nor quick solutions. Instead, she cultivates spaces of radical responsibility, emotional honesty, and embodied presence, where unconscious patterns, inherited narratives, and protective adaptations can be brought into awareness and integrated.

She is the author of Awakening the Masterpiece, and her work is informed by a commitment to inner development that is both psychologically rigorous and spiritually grounded. At its core, this work asks not simply how we cope or function, but how we mature, relate, and participate more consciously in our lives and in the world.

She works with those called to hold space themselves: therapists, facilitators, leaders, and practitioners who sense that the future of this work requires depth, discernment, and the capacity to remain present within complexity, intensity, and the unknown.

Amanda Tizard - Breathwork Diploma Director

Deborah Maloney-Marsden

Founder

Amanda’s primary breathwork lineage is Transformational Breath®, through which she completed extensive professional training in both individual and group facilitation, alongside coaching certification. Over more than two decades, her breathwork practice has expanded through continuous clinical application, advanced intensives, and cross-training in complementary respiratory and altered-state modalities, resulting in thousands of hours of direct breathwork practice, facilitation, and supervision.

Amanda has over twenty years of professional experience as a senior somatic practitioner and breathwork facilitator, with a long clinical history working through the body, breath, and nervous system. Her work is grounded in direct engagement with trauma, early developmental material, attachment patterns, and altered-state processes, held through precise somatic tracking and strong practitioner regulation.

Her foundational training is in Craniosacral Therapy (Upledger Method) (2004–2007), including Somatic Emotional Release, intra-oral work, and fascial unwinding, alongside advanced trauma trainings for craniosacral therapists and specialist work with babies and early life imprints. This early training established a lifelong orientation toward pre-verbal material, shock states, and the deep physiological organisation of the body.

Amanda’s primary breathwork lineage is Transformational Breath®, through which she completed extensive professional training in both individual and group facilitation, alongside coaching certification. Across more than two decades, her breathwork work has been refined through thousands of hours of direct practice, facilitation, supervision, and ongoing study. Her breathwork is further informed by Rebirthing Breathwork, advanced respiratory training through Oxygen Advantage (in progress), and current studies with Vanta Breathwork, allowing her to work across therapeutic, relational, and performance-based breath models with precision.

Alongside breathwork, she brings extensive training in hands-on bodywork and structural modalities, including myofascial release (Rossiter System), soft tissue and trigger point work, pulsing, massage, acupressure, meridian-based work, and movement-based techniques. This gives her a highly developed capacity to read breath patterns, muscular bracing, dissociative responses, and autonomic shifts in both individual and group settings.

Her work is further informed by hypnotherapy, yoga and meditative practices (including Yoga Nidra and Yin), long-standing women’s work, and energy-based modalities. She is also a certified Belief Coding® Practitioner, with advanced and master-level training in progress, integrating subconscious, somatic, and nervous system-level processes into applied clinical work.

Amanda works extensively with high-profile individuals and runs a long-established private practice between London and Ibiza. She has facilitated international retreats for many years, working within complex group fields and extended immersive containers. Known for her steadiness, precision, and depth of perception, she has quietly become one of the most experienced and trusted breathwork and body-based practitioners in the field — recognised through outcomes rather than visibility.

She holds current Emergency First Aid at Work certification and places strong emphasis on ethical practice, safety, and practitioner self-regulation within intense and altered-state work.

As Co-Training Director for the Breathwork Diploma at Inscension, Amanda teaches from lived practice and long-term clinical exposure, supporting the development of practitioners capable of holding intensity, complexity, and depth with clarity, responsibility, and embodied authority.

Phoebe Sullivan - Expanded State and Ceremonial training Diploma Director

Deborah Maloney-Marsden

Founder

There is an intelligence that weaves itself through all of Life, a healing intelligence. It is existence itself and it is love. When we come into re-connection with this current, we remember that we are it. We are rooted in our power, fuelled by Love and Truth.

Our psyche is wired to survive and protect. It is programmed around fear. Humanity and consciousness are evolving to function beyond the confines of the psyche, we are being called to open to that Life current- to heal, to clear distorted patterns and remember our radiant essence. Expanded states of consciousness offer us an opportunity to connect back into that Current by moving beyond the protective layers of the psyche, fear-based programmes, generations of collective conditioning and strong egoic defences to tune back into that Loving Frequency and restore the divine templates of consciousness here on Earth.

Phoebe Sullivan is a transpersonal psychotherapist and facilitator specialising in the exploration and integration of expanded states of consciousness. Her work sits at the meeting point of rigorous depth psychotherapy and ceremonial explorations of the transpersonal. Her approach is at once both rigorously grounded and spiritually attuned- she is a trauma-trained psychotherapist and works in the spaces of developmental psychology, attachment patterns, the depth of shadow, shame and psyche, the nervous system, breath and body- and- it is from these deep roots that her work explores the soul, the archetypal, the collective, the ancestral, the energetic and the spiritual domains that, she believes, are so essential in any healing modality that endeavours to work with a human being.

She is driven by the conviction that individual healing and collective change are inseparable. She longs to see people living in the full expression of their essence. At a time of profound transition in human consciousness, we need each other in Love and Truth. Her work returns, again and again, to these two organising principles: Love and Truth- these are the altars at which her and her client's sit.

Phoebe works in private practice as a psychotherapist, is the creator of the initiatory process Soul Work, holds ceremonial spaces both one-to-one and on retreats between Costa Rica and Mexico and has contributed to psychedelic research fields as a Psychotherapist and Psychedelic Guide within clinical trials at Imperial College London.  She is particularly interested in the careful bridging of these worlds: recognising that the Western psyche requires specific psychological holding, while the depth and reverence of ceremonial practice must not be reduced or stripped of context as these medicines become more widely encountered.

Her training spans both formal clinical education and experiential lineages. Alongside Master’s level psychotherapy training and extensive clinical formation, she has completed over 400 hours of breathwork facilitation training and continued study in trauma and nervous system work. Her learning extends beyond academic frameworks through long-term ceremonial practice, shamanic training and direct study with the plants and indigenous medicine traditions, particularly with the Huni Kuin peoples of Brazil. Her orientation is not only theoretical. More than a decade of sustained psychological and spiritual discipline, alongside direct encounters with potent and intense transformative states, has shaped her capacity to remain steady with powerful processes. Through sustained deep spiritual study, training, focus and support from beings both in this realm and beyond, she has integrated these experiences and learnt how to channel the energy and power they gave her access to. This energy has been her teacher and her greatest training in the energetic and shamanic ways that now are the bedrock of the work she brings through. It is with the acknowledgement of both the gift and responsibility of this, that she is passionately and fiercely committed to this path, to the collective awakening of this planet, and the evolution of consciousness and she devotes her life to that mission.

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