About Plum
I'm Plum (Victoria), a CNM-certified Women's Health Coach, Reiki Master and mum of two, working online across the UK and globally.
I do this work because I genuinely love it, and because I want to help people feel better in a way that's real and lasting.
I've always been drawn to energy work intuitively. It wasn't something I could fully explain as a child, but as I got older I began exploring it more intentionally and the more I learned, the more it made sense.
My own health challenges shaped this path more than anything else. Endometriosis, unexplained symptoms, birth trauma, grief, burnout and stress meant I spent years searching for answers that conventional medicine alone wasn't giving me.
That search led me to nutrition, homeopathy, herbalists, naturopaths, nutritionists and energy workers. A huge part of that was overhauling how I ate, learning what my body actually needed to keep inflammation low, hormones stable and cortisol in check. Gradually I began to understand how stress, nourishment and lifestyle are all connected, and that understanding, combined with a lifelong passion for wellness, led me to train as a Health Coach at the College of Naturopathic Medicine.
Energy work was equally transformative. For the first time I felt like I could decompress. Anxiety and stress that had felt unmanageable began to soften. I learned to work with my intuition, protect my energy and ground myself. That experience led me to train first as a Reiki Practitioner and then as a Reiki Master and Teacher, studying under Brighitta Moser-Clark in both the traditional Japanese Usui and Western Reiki traditions.
The Japanese tradition centres on meditation and deepening self awareness, while the Western tradition focuses on Reiki as a tool for healing and wellbeing. I trained in both, and bring the full breadth of the practice to my work.
Through health coaching I work with women to understand how their body works, using naturopathic principles to look at the full picture. Clients come with goals, and together we explore their lifestyle, health and the factors they wouldn't usually think to connect. The answers are usually already within them. My role is to help them find them.
My Reiki sessions are open to everyone, including children. Each session helps people decompress, regulate their nervous system and reconnect with their own energy, in the same way it once helped me.
My Reiki Lineage
A Reiki lineage traces the energetic ancestry of a practitioner's practice, all the way back to Mikao Usui, who developed the system of Reiki in 1920s Japan.
Japanese lineage (Usui Reiki Ryoho):
Mikao Usui
Taketomi Kanichi
Kimiko Koyama
Hiroshi Doi
Frans Stiene
Brighitta Moser-Clark
Victoria (Plum) Bates
Western lineage (Usui Shiki Ryoho):
Mikao Usui
Chujiro Hayashi
Hawayo Takata
Phyllis Lei Furumoto
Carrel Ann Farmer
Leah Smith
William Lee Rand
Penelope Quest
Torsten Lange
Brighitta Moser-Clark
Victoria (Plum) Bates