A Holistic Home for Health & Wellbeing

Looking After the Whole Person

A self-regulating, harmonious space where clients find trusted holistic care — and practitioners find a community that looks after them too.

Choose Your Path

Whether you're seeking treatment or looking for a space to practise, The Wholeness Hive has a place for you.

More Than an Injury Clinic

After a decade of running an injury clinic, it became clear that structural injury was only ever part of the picture. Looking after people properly meant looking after the whole person — and that realisation is how The Wholeness Hive was born.

We're a holistic health and wellness space in Gloucestershire. For the next five years we'll be at Sims Lane, building a community here before moving into a purpose-built holistic home locally.

Wholeness noun

The state of forming a complete and harmonious whole; unity.

The state of being unbroken or undamaged.

Hive noun

More than just a home for bees — a complex, living superorganism where thousands work in perfect harmony to sustain the whole colony.

A place in which people are busily occupied.

Whole-Person Care

Treating body, mind and spirit — together, not in isolation.

A Thriving Community

Practitioners supported as well as clients — because burnout is real.

Rooted in Research

A pracademic approach — clinical practice informed by active research.

Meet the Team

Every hive needs its keepers. Here are ours.

Katy Aherne, Clinical Lead

Clinical Lead & Founder

Katy Aherne

A self-described pracademic — Katy lectures, researches and practises. If the Hive is a colony, Katy is the busy bee who flies around keeping everything in perfect order. A love of nature, animals, travel and sport.

  • BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Therapy — First Class
  • MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
  • Professional Doctorate (Dr Katy, c. 2030)
Liam Aherne, Director

Director & Business Manager

Liam Aherne

If Katy is the busy bee, Liam is the numbers and the grounding. Engineer by training, business mind by practice — and a love of rugby, dogs and food.

  • BEng (Hons) Integrated Automation Engineering
  • MBA Business Management & Entrepreneurship
Pippin and Loki, the Hive dogs

Chief Cuddle Officers

Pippin & Loki

Pippin the whippet and Loki the border. Both love cuddles, food, walks and — most importantly — squirrels.

  • Official greeters
  • Senior nap consultants