About Me.
If you’re here, you’re probably asking questions about life. Maybe you’re thinking about your work. Your creative life. Your relationships.
Maybe you’re asking questions about direction. Perhaps you know your life isn’t in the place you want it to be. You want to know how to take the next step.
Perhaps you’re asking questions about how you can stay clear, grounded and present to make the best decisions for you, your project, your team, your relationships.
You want to feel as much inner peace, calm, centredness and presence as you can, even in the swirl of the moment when things are difficult.
If you’re looking for help with creative work and you’d like to know more about my specific work in that world, you can read more about that here.
We May Be A Good Fit If:
You want to talk about the deep questions, not have surface conversation.
We’ll often look at your whole body/mind experience.
All of your mental/psychological/emotional/physiological functions – your emotions, body sensations, thoughts, imagination, intuition and intellect – can show you the way in combination.
I’ll offer exercises and practices to take us deeper into the heart of the question you’re working with. The closer we get to the source, the closer you come to the insight and transformation.
You want to work with someone who’s invested in doing the work with you.
One of my roles is to challenge your thinking. To pull at the threads of the stories and beliefs that you’re working with. We’ll often slow down to speed up. Looking deeply at one aspect of a question or a story you bring to a session can open you up to much deeper insights and possibilities for moving forward. That’s the gold of this work.
You want to work with someone with experience.
I’ve been around the block. In fact, several blocks! In that time I’ve trained in many coaching, counselling and therapeutic modalities. I’ve put them to work with teams and leaders in the creative and business worlds. I’ve seen that every person is different. And that helps me tailor the approach to our work together.
You want to work with someone who’s done their own work, rather than someone who’s learned the ideas but hasn’t applied them to their own life.
My teacher, Dorothy Firman, always says, It takes a lifetime to do a lifetime’s work. I’m discovering that in my work and in my life. I continue to do my own training, and work with my own coaches, therapists and counsellors. The journey is ongoing and so is the learning.
My Story
I grew up in Australia, and I spent many years feeling that I didn’t fit.
Mental illness in my family made a big impact on my family in my early years and it shaped the way I saw myself and the world. I didn’t have the words to talk about it at the time, but I had deep feelings of not being good enough, and that my differences were a problem, not a feature, of who I was.
I felt a lot of mental and emotional tension, which increased the issues. A a lot of that energy went into achievement, partly as a way to feel better and, maybe, get acknowledgement.
I’ve had the chance to study with great teachers around the world. They taught me the language for what I was experiencing and many important lessons on how to relate to my experience.
I learned how common it is for strivers and high achievers in the creative and business world to be motivated by anxiety, feelings of self talk of never being good enough, and being stuck on the hamster wheel of ‘striving for perfection’.
I didn’t just learn about the experience and roots of anxiety, shame and stress.
We can reconnect to a dimension of self we disavowed. We can water the seeds of a different sense of self and our inner experience.
And we can look inside ourselves for meaning, and to live by what’s important to us.
My Qualifications
Don’t be concerned if these don’t immediately make sense to you. I’ve trained in different fields but my work is integrative. That means I’ll use the best tools and modalities in the moment when we’re working together to look deeply into the blocks and the ways forward for you.
Masters (First Class), Narrative Therapy, Dulwich Centre, University of Melbourne. (Thesis: Better Than Money – Narrative Practice and the Act of Creating, a study focused on actors and the narratives and beliefs they internalised in training and industry experience in Australia, London and the USA.)
Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, Zenways (Zendo Kai), London, UK.
Psychosynthesis Life Coach, Synthesis Centre San Francisco.
Masters Creative Arts, Flinders Drama Centre.
Modalities:
Psychosynthesis
Narrative Therapy and Coaching
Buddhist Psychology
Solutions-Based Coaching
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Gestalt
Ready To Make A Start?
You don’t need to do this alone. I have years of training and client experience across industries and around the world. And I’ve worked with teams in the creative industries and corporate sectors.
We can work together to find a solution that works for you.
If you’re curious about what working together would look like, connect with me to book a session and let’s have a conversation.