Meet the Head Trash Team
Meet the humans behind the healing — bringing therapeutic expertise, lived experience, and strategic support to help you heal fast.
Alexia Leachman
Founder | Pattern Breaker| Recovering Over-Thinker
Alexia is the creator of Head Trash Clearance™ — a fast, trauma-aware approach to clearing the emotional patterns that keep people stuck, stressed, or secretly spiralling.
A former overthinker (still recovering), she created this method after no therapy, mindset hack, or spiritual practice could shift the fear and anxiety that ruled her life — especially her terrifying fear of birth. So, she disrupted everything. And built her own path out.
Her healing work began in the most personal of places — the decision to face her tokophobia head-on — and what unfolded was more than a breakthrough. It was a blueprint. A way to transform deep emotional baggage without years of talking. That blueprint became Head Trash Clearance, and it’s since helped thousands worldwide.
Her work has reached everyday humans, therapists, trauma professionals, corporate leaders, and even A- and B-list clients who need healing behind the scenes. She’s known for cutting through noise, fear, and emotional debris — with speed, empathy, and the occasional eye-roll.
Before Head Trash, Alexia worked in brand strategy and marketing — including teaching Disruptive Marketing at Oxford — which may explain her disruptive tendencies. Alexia loves to show people that real transformation and personal growth doesn’t have to be slow, scary, or confusing — it can be surprisingly straightforward.
She’s also a tea-fuelled mischief-maker, a chronic course-tweaker, a mother, and someone who fully believes that healing can be fast, focused, and wildly effective — even when life is messy.
“If healing feels slow, heavy, or boring — you’re probably doing it wrong.”
Marise Hyman
Workplace Wellbeing Lead | SHIP ReCoder | Dancing Disruptor
Marise leads the workplace wellbeing arm of Head Trash with her signature blend of soul, strategy, and systems reCoding. A former global Big 4 finance fairy turned regenerative relationship & leadership specialist + doula, Marise brings more than a decade of experience helping individuals and organisations shift from burnout and breakdown into balance, resilience, and relational intelligence.
Her journey to Head Trash began after experiencing corporate burnout and birth trauma which unearthed cleverly suppressed childhood CPTSD — initiations that left her craving something deeper, faster, and more embodied. She found it in Head Trash Clearance, which she now weaves into her work supporting women, couples, leaders and teams in navigating complexity by birthing conscious connections, at home, at work and in culture
Having danced through the brave intention of making a 25-year mixed-orientation marriage work — after her partner’s suppressed homosexuality surfaced in midlife — she lived the emotional realities of mixed-orientation relationships from closet wounds to wisdom and conscious uncoupling, which now fuels her rare relational richness to decode stuck dynamics from boardroom blocks to bedroom breakdowns.
Marise is passionate helping people reCode the unconscious narratives in how they sail their ships in life, love, and leading. From conscious conception prep to workplace peak performance, she makes healing deeply strategic — and surprisingly playful.
Originally from South Africa, then shipped to Luxembourg, Marise is often found dancing her way through problem-solving (salsa optional, but encouraged). She believes that transforming our inner culture is the key to transforming our world — and she’s here to help steer the SHIP.
“The future needs less hustle and more human. That starts by becoming conscious captains of the original SHIPs — the Motherwound and Fatherwound — and sailing forward with heart.”
Leah King
Therapeutic Lead | Licensed Psychotherapist | Nervous System Rewire Enthusiast
Leah bridges the worlds of psychotherapy and Head Trash — bringing a trauma-informed, clinically grounded lens to the modality while also walking the healing path herself. A licensed psychotherapist with a background in EMDR and psychodynamic therapy, Leah’s not just academically fluent in the world of emotional healing — she’s lived it.
After years in clinical practice (and many, many acupuncture appointments), Leah realised she still carried relational patterns she couldn’t talk her way out of. Enter Head Trash. What started as a short group experience became a transformational turning point — personally and professionally. Now, as a certified practitioner, she supports the integration of Head Trash into clinical spaces.
She believes everyone deserves to experience joy and levity as their default — and that sometimes, we need more than talking to get there. She’s passionate about nervous system healing, fast-acting modalities, and making emotional wellbeing accessible without borders or bureaucracy.
Leah speaks three languages, has lived in six countries, and defies geographic, socio-cultural, and mind-body assumptions with her Third Culture Kid perspective.
She’s also a lover of dance parties, live music, delicious food, and human connection — especially the kind that comes with a side of soul work.
“Healing doesn’t have to take forever — but it does have to start with you.”
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