About
My path into psychology has not been linear. Before training as a psychologist, I spent a decade working internationally in the music industry, touring with musicians and artists. I witnessed extraordinary creativity and the emotional cost that often remains unseen. I began working with music and mental health organisations, using music as a way of opening dialogue around mental health. Today, I continue this work as a therapist with Backline Care, providing psychological support for musicians, crew, and touring professionals. I hold a deep belief in the healing power of the arts.
During this time I was also following another path. Years of study in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and body-based approaches to healing deepened my understanding of the relationship between the body, the nervous system, and emotional wellbeing, an understanding that continues to shape my practice today.
Since then, my work has taken me from the United Kingdom, across India, Europe, the United States, and throughout Central and South America. Living and working across different cultures has continually reshaped my understanding of healing. While each culture speaks a different language of distress and recovery, I have found the same human longing beneath them all: the desire to feel safe, connected, and understood.
I lived in ashrams in India for two years, studying yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. Later, five years in New York brought me into community health, I worked in crisis response, harm reduction, and overdose prevention centres supporting people living with trauma, addiction, and complex adversity. It was there that my understanding of healing expanded, revealing how deeply our wellbeing is shaped not only by our personal histories, but by our relationships, communities, and the wider systems we live within.
Alongside my clinical practice, with Newus Clinic in London, I lecture internationally on trauma, crisis response, nervous system regulation, and embodied approaches to mental health. I am currently completing a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Existential Psychotherapy. Across each stage, one question has quietly guided me: how do we find our way back to ourselves?
“It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that's where the river will know
it's not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.”
-Kahlil Gibran
If you’d like to know more you can also see this video from Newus Clinic London. UK based clients, you are welcome to book directly through the clinic.
Qualifications
DCPsych in Counselling Psychology and Existential Psychotherapy, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling & Middlesex University (in progress)
MSc Psychology, St Mary's University, Twickenham
Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training, Gabor Maté
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Hakomi Institute
Trauma-informed Practice to Support People Who Have Experienced Psychological Trauma, The British Psychological Society
Foundation in Psychotherapy, Counselling Psychology and Coaching, Existential Academy
Foundation Art Psychotherapy, Roehampton University
Two-year Apprenticeship in Traditional Botanical and Herbal Medicine, The Plant Medicine School
300hr Certified Yoga Instructor, AyurYoga Eco Ashram, India
Ayurvedic Theory and Physical Therapies, AyurYoga Eco Ashram
First Degree in Usui Reiki, Usui System of Natural Healing
200hr Certified Yoga Instructor, Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga
BA in History, University of Bristol