About WREN
Whether you’re living with chronic illness, navigating burnout, or simply looking for a more grounded, connected path to wellness, WREN is here for you.
Let’s reclaim the human in healthcare.
Let’s build a system that helps us heal, grow, and thrive.
WREN stands for Wholeperson Healthcare—an approach grounded in three essential pillars:
Relational – Healing happens in relationship - with ourselves, others and our environment. We centre trust, empathy, and the quality of the clinician–patient relationship.
Embodied – The body is not just a machine; it’s a wise and dynamic system that holds memory, stress, trauma, resilience and healing potential.
Narrative – Illness is more than biology. People make sense of their experiences through story. We are shaped by the stories we tell - and can reshape those stories to support change.
WREN provides a practical framework for clinicians and individuals who want to shift from a model of managing symptoms to one of nurturing resilience, coherence, and meaning.
Why It Matters
Science is now catching up with what many patients have always known:
Emotions affect immunity. Stress shapes recovery. Connection accelerates healing.
WREN brings together the latest insights from neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, trauma research, and systems biology to support a new kind of care—care that sees the whole human, not just a diagnosis.
Our Purpose
We’re here to:
Support people in self-managing their health with confidence and clarity.
Help clinicians reconnect to the relational heart of practice.
Promote a model of care that values presence over protocol, and healing over just fixing.
Dr Jo Gladwin
I’m a clinician and coach working at the intersection of science, story, and wholeperson healthcare. My clinical approach is grounded in evidence-based medicine, relational practice, and a deep respect for the body’s role in healing.
My doctoral research explored empathy as a skill enacted in clinical communication, which led me to study predictive processing and embodied cognition at the University of Oxford. This work continues to shape my understanding of how the mind and body co-create our health experiences and how care systems can better reflect this reality.
Trained at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, I also bring meditation & mindfulness-based approaches into healthcare, supporting behavioural change, emotional resilience, and more compassionate engagement with the self.
I’m the founder of the WREN model (Wholeperson Healthcare: Relational, Embodied, Narrative), a framework for practitioners seeking to support healing that is both deeply human and scientifically grounded.
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