Ayla Shepherd

Ayla Shepherd is a trauma-informed psychotherapist, ceremonial guide, and author based in County Wexford, Ireland.
She spent a decade working in corporate consulting and executive development across Dubai and internationally - with clients including Emirates, Samsung, KPMG, Bvlgari, eBay, and PayPal - before turning fully to therapeutic and ceremonial work. She has been doing this work seriously for over ten years.
Her training spans Compassionate Inquiry (Dr Gabor Maté's method), somatic healing, hypnotherapy, NLP, plant medicine integration, cacao facilitation, and rapé facilitation. She works with people who are carrying more than they can hold - and who have often not had a space that was genuinely safe enough to put it down.
Ayla understands the world her clients come from. The performance pressure, the social exposure, the gap between how things look and how they feel. She has sat with enough people at the top to know that what looks like success from the outside is often something much more complicated on the inside.
She is the author of The Truth Trip - a book about her own journey through illness, plant medicine, and the search for what actually heals.
The Reset is not a programme she runs. It is a space she holds. That difference matters.
Ayla works with a small number of people at any one time, by choice. Guests have come from the UAE, the United States, the UK, and Ireland. Most arrive exhausted in ways they have not been able to name. Most leave with something they were not expecting - a quietness that stays.