Giving and Receiving

Marissa Nolan is a professionally qualified and highly experienced therapist, social worker, yoga and meditation teacher, academic researcher and writer. She runs a successful online counselling and supervision practice and provides social work outreach programmes in Asia and the Himalayas. She also creates world-class retreats, trips, treks, tours, educational programmes and bespoke, tailor-made adventures that support communities and individuals in need.

Retreats and Holidays

Through her social enterprise Gone Far Beyond, Marissa utilises her skills, knowledge and local connections to offer once-in-a-lifetime treks, retreats and experiences. Every programme is aimed at genuinely benefiting and giving back to the communities you visit while giving you a remarkable experience.

Outreach and Volunteering

Marissa wants to show you that you that you can have a profound and meaningful experience, whilst also genuinely helping local people in need in a sustainable and intelligent way. Marissa focuses on capacity building, creating independence. bilateral learning, responsibility and empowerment.

Counselling, Mentoring and Supervision

Marissa specialises in assisting individuals or groups affected by conflict, transition and change, relationship difficulties, trauma, depression and anxiety. She also provides counselling and supervision to other mental health professionals, social workers and humanitarian workers online. 

Writing, Research and Teaching

Marissa has written on the true nature of women’s empowerment, the current social development context, the social and cultural factors that compound and mitigate mental health and trauma, and effective social work methods, principles and strategies for working with indigenous or traditional cultures.