There is a reason you keep ending up in the same place.
And it has nothing to do with how hard you're trying.
Beneath every repeating pattern, every physical symptom, every invisible ceiling — there is an archetypal story quietly running the show. When you learn to read it, everything changes.
I'm Claire Doherty — medical intuitive, somatic coach and creator of the Archetypal Alchemy certification. For 30 years I've helped people get underneath the surface of what's keeping them stuck, and find their way to real, lasting freedom.
You've done the work. You're ready to go deeper.
You might be a coach or therapist who knows your clients are hitting a ceiling that existing tools can't break through. You might be someone on your own healing journey who has tried everything and is ready for a different kind of answer. Or you might simply feel, deep down, that there is more — more clarity, more vitality, more freedom — and you're finally ready to find it.
Whatever brought you here, you're in the right place.
A different way of understanding what drives us
Most approaches to change work on the surface — managing symptoms, shifting behaviours, reframing thoughts. Archetypal Alchemy goes underneath, to the patterns, beliefs and archetypes that shape everything from our physical health to our emotional responses to our sense of who we are.
Drawing on Jungian psychology, somatic awareness, energy medicine and metaphysics, it's a framework for understanding the deeper story — and the tools to rewrite it.
Learn more about Archetypal Alchemy:
Archetypal Alchemy Training
Become a certified Archetypal Alchemy Practitioner
The practitioner certification at the intersection of psychology, soma and energy
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A 12-month online certification that trains you to read and work with archetypal patterns — in yourself and your clients. Deeply transformational, professionally accredited, and unlike anything else available.
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IPHM accredited & IACTM approved.
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No prior qualifications needed
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Next cohort: September 2026
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Investment: £5,850 with flexible payment plans
30 years of finding what actually works
I spent the first part of my career as a physiotherapist, then as a nutritional therapist, then as a somatic practitioner and medical intuitive. Along the way I kept noticing the same thing — that lasting change rarely happens at the level of symptoms. There are deeper layers, and when you learn to work with those, transformation becomes possible in ways nothing else can touch.
Archetypal Alchemy is the distillation of everything I've learned. I created it so you don't have to spend the next three decades finding your own way here.
Prefer to work with me directly?
If you're looking for personalised 1:1 support — whether for your own healing, a specific challenge, or to explore what working together feels like before committing to the certification — I offer a range of coaching and medical intuition packages.
In their own words
"It feels like the chains have fallen off. It was like 3 years of therapy in 3 hours." — Anonymous client
"You took me from being lost and overwhelmed, to now feeling consistently great. The understanding you gave me has been life changing." — Anonymous client
"Before working with Claire I was very lost, emotional and scared. I'm not living in fear any more, I'm living in the moment." — Elaine Vece