About Me
Somatic Therapist & Trauma-Informed Guide | Gold Coast, Northern Rivers & Online
If you have found your way to this page, you are likely someone who senses that real change goes deeper than advice, strategies, or willpower. You may be looking not just for someone who is trained, but for someone who has genuinely walked the path, who knows from the inside what it means to face their own dark night of the soul, to question everything, and to come out the other side changed, humbled, and rebuilt from the ground up.
That is my story.
I grew up in the UK and began my working life in engineering until an accident changed everything. Multiple spinal surgeries, a bleak prognosis, and the sudden collapse of life as I knew it pushed me into a deep period of questioning and a long journey of awakening, healing, and redefining what it meant to be alive.
That experience redirected my life completely. I returned to study, trained in counselling, and then devoted five years to becoming a dentist. In clinical practice I specialised in biomimetic dentistry, a minimally invasive approach to restoring teeth in a way that mimics natural function, honours aesthetics, and respects what is living. That philosophy still underpins everything I do today: honour what is living; remove what blocks it.
Long before it was widely recognised, I developed a trauma-informed approach to clinical practice. I became known for working with anxious patients and offering them a level of presence, safety, and nervous system attunement they had often never experienced in a healthcare setting. Alongside that work, I continued studying the healing arts including somatic therapy, counselling, trauma resolution, bioenergetic and embodiment practices, and whole-system integration.
My curiosity to understand how people truly heal – not just physically, but emotionally, energetically, psychologically, and spiritually – took me around the world. I sought out teachers, mentors, and experiences that challenged and expanded my understanding of the human system: the mind, emotions, body, nervous system, energy, and the deeper layers of consciousness that shape how we live, relate, and respond to life.
For more than thirty years I have immersed myself in trauma resolution, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, spirituality, and personal transformation. It has never been an academic pursuit, rather a desire, passion, and genuine curiosity for growth, and to support others who feel called to a similar path to do the same. One thing has remained consistent throughout: lasting change requires a whole-system approach – mind, body, emotions, energy, and spirit.
Today, based on the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers and working with people online worldwide, my work is devoted to supporting individuals and couples to reconnect with wholeness – connecting with their core Self, dissolving the resistance that impedes flow, and healing what has become fragmented through stress, trauma, or the accumulated weight of living. I support people to create more authentic, loving, and honest relationships with themselves and others, not by reinventing themselves or becoming a better version of who they think they should be, but by remembering and reconnecting with who they already are beneath conditioning, survival strategies, and accumulated stress.
This is the path that lights me up. And the work I am deeply honoured to share.
If you feel ready to take the next step, I invite you to explore the sessions I offer or book a conversation to see how I can best support you.
QUALIFICATIONS
Diploma in Counselling
Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling
Somatic Experiencing ® Practitioner
Somatic Trauma Therapy one year (Babette Rothschild)
Diploma in Craniosacral Therapy
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner
Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching
Reiki Level One and Level Two
Bachelor of Dental Surgery (Dentist – BDS)
Member of the Joint Dental Faculties (MJDF RCS Eng)