Esther Laurent
Founder · Counsellor
Trained in trauma-informed and inner-child work. Believes the bravest thing most people do is simply book the first call.
Our story
Built on a simple, stubborn belief.
People aren't problems to be sorted into departments. So we built a studio where the whole person could be cared for in one place.
How it began
From a borrowed room to a garden practice.
Marrow & Bloom started in 2014 in a single borrowed therapy room, when our founder - a counsellor - kept meeting clients whose emotional struggles were tangled up with practical ones: a disability claim stuck in limbo, a confidence eroded by years of feeling unseen, a body that needed accommodation no one would arrange.
Sending people elsewhere felt like sending them away. So one room became two, then a team. Today we work from the Garden Rooms - a calm, daylight-filled practice where therapists, advocates and restorative-care practitioners share the same hallway, the same kettle, and the same belief: care should follow the person, not the paperwork.
The name? Marrow for the deep, structural work of healing - the kind that reaches the bone. Bloom for what becomes possible once that work is held well.
Inside the Garden Rooms
What we hold to
Values we actually practise.
The whole person
Mind, body and circumstance are one conversation. We don't make you split yourself across specialists who never speak.
Unhurried by design
We protect time. Sessions don't run to a stopwatch, and we'd rather you came less often and felt more held.
Plain language
No jargon walls. Whether it's trauma or a benefits form, we explain things the way we'd want them explained to us.
Dignity, always
You set the pace and the boundaries. Our job is to be a steady, respectful presence - never to manage you.
A decade in
Small studio, deep roots.
2,400+
People supported
11
Years of practice
3
Care disciplines
94%
Would recommend
The people
A small team who all know your name.
Rafael Adeyemi
Accessibility advocate
Spends his days untangling benefits, documentation and disability claims so clients keep their independence and their energy.
Mira Kovač
Restorative-care lead
Leads our gentle aesthetics and confidence work, and teaches the studio's restorative technique courses.
Come and see
The door is open, and there's tea on.
If anything here sounds like the kind of care you've been missing, start with a free first conversation.
Say hello