I have been working as a therapist for over 25 years.

Over time, my work and life have deepened into an understanding that change is shaped through relationship, embodiment, and the capacity to stay present with experience as it is.

I first encountered body psychotherapy in my twenties through group bioenergetic work. This opened a long process of becoming more aware of how experience is held in the body, and how we come into and out of connection with ourselves.

Since then, my attention has gradually shifted toward the more subtle layers of experience — including early developmental and preverbal patterns, and the ways these are carried somatically as well as relationally.

A significant part of my own process has been learning to stay with states of vulnerability, shame, grief, and protective withdrawal, and to notice what becomes possible when these are met with steadiness rather than avoidance.

Grief has been an important thread in my life. It has softened inner divisions and brought a more intimate relationship with experience as it is.

I have facilitated women’s retreats and held group spaces exploring embodiment, relational awareness, and somatic experience.

Nature has been a long-standing influence in my life, offering a reflection on aliveness and the interchanging nature of experience, and a sense that beneath it all there is a quiet continuity that is not separate from what is here. Living by the sea continues to bring this into direct, everyday awareness.

At this stage, my interest is less in fixed practices or defined paths, and more in the immediacy of experience — meeting life as it unfolds, without needing to shape it in advance.

I am a qualified mindfulness meditation teacher (2025). Alongside my psychotherapy work, I offer individual sessions and occasional retreat days.

“Real healing is a journey that never ends. Simplicity becomes a guide. Humility and compassion grow as layers, deep in the bones and tissues, resolve themselves."

Formal Psychotherapy Training & Experience

Some highlights of my formal psychotherapy training and experience:

• I originally trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling (BA Hons) at the Metanoia Institute, London.

• I completed a further two years training in Embodied Relationship Therapy with Nick Totton.

• I have explored group process work, including Chaos and Grace group facilitation training.

• I hold a Certificate in Complex Trauma and have trained in working with complex shame with Janina Fisher.

• My work is informed by ongoing study in neuroscience of embodied safety, polyvagal theory, and somatic movement approaches that support embodied change.

• I have engaged with body psychotherapy in both individual and group settings over many years.

• I have participated in trainings and dialogues exploring structural racism, whiteness, and systemic oppression, including work with Patti Digh and participation in whiteness-focused reflective spaces.

• I continue to reflect on issues of power, privilege, and inequality within myself and the wider therapeutic field.

• I am a qualified mindfulness meditation teacher (2025), having completed training with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.