I didn’t become a psychologist or psychotherapist by accident. At its core, my work is driven by a deep curiosity about people - how we survive, how we adapt, and how we change.

That curiosity took me from an undergraduate degree in Psychology focused on resilience, to a Master’s in Sport and Exercise Psychology where ideas about resilience met the realities of pressure, performance, and expectation, and ultimately to a PhD exploring psychological transformation through adversity.

My interest in resilience isn’t abstract. From a very young age, I existed in environments (particularly educational and sporting) that demanded excellence and accepted nothing less. At the same time, I was carrying a substantial amount of unrecognised psychological and embodied distress from childhood and adolescence. Because I was still functioning, still achieving, and still “performing,” those difficulties were overlooked or misread. It wasn’t until much later, when my system could no longer compensate, that I crashed and burned in a pretty spectacular fashion.

That experience profoundly shaped how I practise. I’m especially attuned to people who look capable on the outside while struggling internally - those whose distress is masked by competence, drive, or achievement. A central part of my work is ensuring that what I experienced is recognised earlier, named more accurately, and met with greater care in others.

My approach integrates traditional talking therapy with somatic therapy. In practice, this means we work with thoughts, emotions, meaning, and patterns alongside the body and nervous system. Change doesn’t happen only through insight - it happens through lived, embodied experience. My role is to help you understand what’s happening, reconnect with yourself, and move towards a way of living that is both sustainable and meaningful.