Anwar Dewi
Spent twelve years in community mental-health work before opening the studio. Believes good support starts with being genuinely heard.
About the studio
We built a wellbeing studio that reads like a calm letter
Sefar Studio began with a simple frustration: support for self-awareness and disability access too often arrives clinical, rushed, or hard to read. We wanted the opposite.
Our story
Slow on purpose
The studio takes its name from the idea of sefar, a journey undertaken with intention. After more than a decade in community mental-health and public-services work, our founder kept meeting the same two people: someone who wanted to understand themselves better, and someone stuck halfway through a disability card application that nobody had explained.
So we made one place for both. We cap our circles at six. We write everything in plain language. We reserve space on the page so reading never feels like effort. Accessibility is not a checkbox here; it is the shape of the work.
Today a small team supports people one to one and in gentle groups, and we still measure success the same way we did on day one: did the person leave feeling genuinely heard.
What guides us
Three quiet commitments
Genuinely heard
Every conversation starts by listening properly. Support that does not begin with understanding is just instruction.
Plain and honest
No jargon, no upselling, no clinical coldness. We say what we mean in language built to be read without strain.
Accessible by design
Accessibility is not a feature we add at the end. It shapes how we write, meet, and follow up from the first hello.
The studio in numbers
11years guiding the human journey
640+people supported one to one
6people, the cap on every circle
4.9average studio rating
The people
A small team, on purpose
Four practitioners who would rather do a handful of things with care than everything at speed.
Mireille Tanaka
Guides applicants through documentation and eligibility with patience and zero jargon. Former public-services caseworker.
Caspian Aluko
Runs the journaling circles and one-to-one sessions. Trained in mindfulness-based approaches and quietly very funny.
Priya Sundaram
Makes sure every session, document, and email we send is genuinely easy to use. Keeps the studio running on time.
Come and meet us
Start with a conversation, not a commitment
Tell us where you are and we will suggest a gentle first step. No pressure, no jargon.