Edana Trevallion
Founder · Emotional recovery
Twenty years in wellbeing and trauma work. Edana holds the Inner Recovery Sessions and trains everyone who joins the practice in our pace-before-progress approach.
Our story
We started because care had forgotten the person.
Marlcombe is what happens when you take the clipboard out of the room and leave only two people, two chairs, and as much time as it takes.
The beginning
A granary, a kettle, and a refusal to rush.
In 2016 our founder, Edana Trevallion, left a busy NHS wellbeing service exhausted by the maths of it — six sessions, a tick-box outcome measure, next please. She had watched too many people be discharged the moment they stopped being a crisis and long before they were actually well.
She rented a draughty room above a granary on the edge of Marlcombe village, put two armchairs in it, and started seeing people for as long as they needed. Word travelled the way it does in small places. Nine years later there are four of us, the room is warmer, and the principle has never changed: the person leads, we follow.
We are not a clinic and we are not a retreat. We are a practice — in the old sense of the word. Somewhere people return to, over years, to do the patient work of becoming themselves again.
What we believe
You do not have to be broken to deserve care, and you do not have to be fixed to be allowed to leave.
Most of the people we see are not in crisis. They are simply carrying something — a grief that never quite settled, a confidence that thinned out, a body that changed and took their independence with it. We hold space for the in-between, the part of recovery that no system seems to fund.
And we believe in honesty. If the Rooms aren’t right for you, we’ll say so, and help you find what is.
Our ethic
Five things we will not compromise on.
01
Consent at every turn
Nothing happens in the Rooms without your yes. You set the depth, the pace, and the door is never locked.
02
Small caseloads
We cap how many people each practitioner holds, so that your hour is genuinely yours and never rushed.
03
Plain language
No jargon, no mystique. If we can’t explain something to you in ordinary words, we don’t fully understand it yet.
04
Know our edges
We are trained to recognise when something needs a clinician. Referring on is a sign of care, not failure.
05
Dignity, always
However hard the topic — money, mobility, the mirror — you leave with your dignity fully intact.
06
The long view
We measure success in seasons, not sessions. Real change is slow, and we are happy to wait with you.
The practitioners
Four people, one shared way of listening.
Jonah Okafentse
Practitioner · Confidence & self-image
Jonah works with people rebuilding a sense of self after change, illness or treatment. Patient, warm, and quietly very funny.
Lottie Renshaw
Lead · Independent Living Clinic
A former welfare-rights adviser, Lottie demystifies the systems of independence — benefits, access cards, financial tools — without ever making it feel like admin.
Come and see
The kettle’s on whenever you are.
If any of this sounds like the kind of care you’ve been looking for, the first conversation is free and unhurried.