About Alkimia

The professional training arm of Edge Dynamics Psychology

Alkimia Training exists to transmit the depth, clarity, and symbolic intelligence at the heart of Edge Dynamics Psychology. We offer rigorous, experiential, post‑qualification training for practitioners who want to work with the unconscious, the relational field, and the deeper architecture of psyche.

About Alkimia

The professional training arm of Edge Dynamics Psychology

Stacey Millichamp

Founder of Edge Dynamics Psychology

Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Author and Trainer.

For over three decades, Stacey Millichamp has worked at the coalface of human transformation — in the consulting room, in training institutes, in group fields, and in the symbolic landscapes that shape psychological life.

She is the founder of Edge Dynamics Psychology, a contemporary school of thought that brings symbolic intelligence, field awareness, and relational depth back into the centre of psychological practice.

Career

A Career Built in the Depths

Stacey’s professional life has been shaped by decades of immersion in therapeutic practice with individuals, couples, groups, and supervisees. Her work has always been intensive, relational, and oriented toward transformation rather than symptom management.

Real Experience

Teaching, Lineage and Leadership

Stacey has taught in multiple professional settings, including:

Member of the Findhorn Foundation Leadership Team evolving large community group processes and conflict resolution

Senior trainer and group supervisor on the MA in Psychotherapy at the Psychosynthesis Trust and course curriculum author for the modules in the Transpersonal Field 1 and 2, Depth Work and the Unconscious 1, 2 and 3

Course curriculum author and lead trainer on the Diploma in Supervision at the Psychosynthesis Trust

Co-founder, clinical director and group dynamics trainer for the charity Children Our Ultimate Investment, delivering Teens & Toddlers programmes throughout London and Nationally

Founder of Entrust Associates delivering the first London-wide school counselling programmes across multiple schools throughout London

Founder of Alkimia Training delivering archetypal, dynamic and relational trainings throughout the UK and Globally

Her teaching is known for its clarity, depth, and capacity to articulate complex psychological processes with precision.

Author of Transpersonal Dynamics

Her book Transpersonal Dynamics: The Relational Field, Depth Work and the Unconscious laid the groundwork for what would later become Edge Dynamics Psychology.

The Emergence of Edge Dynamics Psychology

Edge Dynamics Psychology is the culmination of Stacey’s decades of clinical pattern recognition, symbolic inquiry, and relational depth work. It is a school of thought with a clear architecture, mechanism, and lineage.

Future Defined

A Founder’s Ethos

Stacey’s work is defined by:

Clean, direct communication

Relational honesty

Respect for lineage and authorship

A refusal to collude with cultural avoidance of the unconscious

A commitment to depth over performance

Psychological Roots

Our Purpose

To restore discipline, depth, and relational intelligence to the psychological professions.

What Makes Alkimia Distinct

A coherent school of thought

A lineage‑based ethos

Field‑based facilitation

Symbolic and archetypal intelligence

Transformation at the edge

Contemporary School

Edge Dynamics Psychology

A contemporary school of thought founded by Stacey Millichamp

Edge Dynamics Psychology maps the psychological, symbolic, and field‑based forces that shape human experience. It offers practitioners a clear and elegant way of understanding how identity, contact, and meaning are formed — and how transformation occurs at the edge.

Core Architecture

The Aspirational and Disavowed Self

Field Dynamics

Symbolic and Archetypal Intelligence

Sonia Minards

MBACP

Sonia is an experienced counsellor working with individuals and couples in private practice.

Her approach is Transpersonal drawing on her training in Psychosynthesis Counselling at the Psychosynthesis Trust, and her academic background in behavioral sciences. Before qualifying as a counsellor Sonia spent 20+ years building a successful career in the corporate world, working at Board level in fast paced, intense, and highly stimulating environments. Including leading and facilitating a wide range of teams. Sonia brings this breadth of experience to her private practice work, specifically working with relational dynamics in clients key relationships in both their home and work lives.

Applications

Individual work

Couple work

Group work