Marianne Siddons Heginworth trained as dramatherapist and pioneered environmental arts therapy in the UK with with her husband Ian Siddons Heginworth. Ian is the author of Environmental arts therapy and the tree of life, a book derived for their many years of working together and with their clients. Together they founded Spirits Rest as a publishing company and a therapeutic woodland

Marianne Siddons Heginworth B a hons, post grad dip (drama therapy)  After studying psychotherapy and the arts at Exeter university and drama and creative arts at degree level she trained as a drama therapist and has worked with groups and individuals for over 20 years. She has specialised in working 1 to 1 with individuals and couples where her unique modality combining embodiment, environmental arts therapy, shamanic and ancestral healing in a trauma informed and trauma releasing and gentle safe way has brought her much acclaim.

Her background has been working with women, people at the end of life, As well as with young people, young men in prisons, adults with dementia, drug and alcohol survivors and couples seeking a space to explore their relational dynamics.

She is a qualified Soul midwife, Sound healer and Shamanic apprentice. Her work with people with dementia was honored in the parliamentary review of care homes. She has taught dramatherapy on the Ba hons drama degree course at Plymouth University and leads the Circle of trees Specialist practitioners course at Spirits Rest Therapeutic Woodland. She also runs the Secret Storytelling Theatre, a therapeutic theatre making project for young people.