Looking back, it was probably always there.
At school I was the kid people came out to. The one they told their secrets to. The person they seemed to trust with the stuff they didn’t feel able to say anywhere else.
And even before that, I was enchanted by the idea that there were other worlds existing alongside this one. Mystical things – stuff that was felt but not explained. I remember a sense that there was always more going on than what we could immediately see.
I didn’t have language for any of that then, though. I just knew that our existence was a magical thing.
The world mattered to me.
Other humans mattered.
I trained as a mental health nurse and went on to specialise in child and adolescent mental health. Later I added a second mental health degree, then a Masters in Addiction (I know, should've got over myself - literally no-one needs three degrees...)
Over the years I found myself working in some of the most complex corners of human experience.
Mental Illness. Trauma. Addiction. Safeguarding. Family systems. Intergenerational patterning. The question of what happens to people, and what happens within them, when life has asked too much for too long.
I worked with young people and adults living with incredibly difficult experiences such as neglect, abuse, care experiences, self-harm, complete disengagement and hopelessness. I witnessed and worked with survival patterns that made perfect sense once you understood where they had come from.
That work taught me a LOT.
Mostly, it taught me how complex and incredible we humans are. And how much can shift when someone is met properly, is held well, and feels empowered to live in alignment with their Truth.
A lot of those years were spent inside systems that were trying to do good work under impossible pressure.
I worked in the NHS, in safeguarding, in charity services, in emotional resilience work with families and communities, and later in service development and outcomes work.
Some of that meant building new services. Some of it meant leading and supporting frontline teams. Some of it meant trying to improve what people were receiving within structures that were chronically underfunded and overstretched.
I learned a huge amount in those years. About people, obviously. But also about systems. About what helps, about what gets in the way, about how often the support people actually need is deeper, slower and more relational than any system can tolerate or meet.
Eventually I got to a point where I knew I couldn’t keep working in a way that asked me to compromise that.
So I retrained as a Clinical Reflexologist (I look at this picture and see how conformist I still was - that would change soon...)
At that point in my life I was working in a corporate role three days a week, raising two children under four, and retraining at weekends in a completely different field. Which, when I say it out loud now, sounds completely unhinged. But here we are.
It was a real turning point.
Because it was through reflexology that I started to see energetic healing in action, in a way that my clinical training had never given me language for, or fully tolerated.
The sceptic in me, which had grown quite strong over the years, had to take a massive running jump.
Eventually I left employment and focused fully on my practice. I learned what it was to run a business and be self-employed. I failed spectacularly at times, and this taught me so much more than any of the ‘five-step models’ that promised ‘success’. (They still promise this. Spoiler – they don’t and can't deliver)…
I learned to do things my own way. In a way that worked for me. My clinics filled. I had a long waitlist. Then Covid arrived and, during lockdown, I sold my very successful face to face business.
Because by that point, I knew the work was expanding. Again.
What had become obvious was that people were not only coming for the energy work. They were coming for the space that was held. For the conversations. For the feeling of being able to put things down for a minute and really hear themselves. They left their appointments with perspective, clarity, and a revived sense of peace and certainty.
So I dragged out my coaching certification from my corporate days, decided it wasn’t fit for purpose, and so re-qualified as a Wellbeing Coach. I started weaving my work together in a new way.
Over time I also trained in Reiki, NLP, Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherapy. All of it added something useful. All of it deepened my understanding of how people change, how they heal, and what gets in the way.
And still, underneath all of that, there was something else calling me.
(You bored yet?!)
I was guided back to the ancient wisdom that had fascinated me since I was young.
I trained as a Medicine Woman Practitioner and deepened my own ritual and ceremonial practice. And that, really, was the piece that linked everything together for me...
The clinical and the spiritual.
The modern and the ancient.
The psychology of being human and the soul of being here at all.
That weave is the golden thread through my work now.
Weaving the ancient into the modern.
Weaving soul into everyday life.
Because for me, that is how we connect more deeply with ourselves, with each other, and with Spirit.
The self-trust this cultivates is exactly what allows us to tap into - and be guided by - our own inner wisdom.
With compassion. With clarity. With confidence. With LOVE.
Over the years I’ve had the privilege of holding an incredible number of humans through one to one work, programmes, retreats and ceremonies. Of supporting other business owners to grow and flourish. Of witnessing, holding and walking alongside folk from all walks and wheels of life.
I consider it a deep honour to support people through change, loss, growth, endings, beginnings, and all the messy in-between bits that don’t fit neatly into a label (or maybe tick too many labels at once).
There is something very special about being trusted in those kinds of spaces.
And I never take it lightly.
A love of humans.
Absolute respect for how complicated it can be to be one.
And a deep trust that when someone is given the right space, they can Know, Speak and Live their Truth.
When I look back now, the path makes more sense than it did at each point in time.
At each stage I was understanding something more about humans. How we cope. How we decide. How we adapt. How we relate. How we heal.
And what helps people find their way back to themselves when life has pulled them off course.
The work I do now is simply where all of those experiences have met.
And where I get to meet you - exactly as you are.