I’m a working mother, co-parent, and step-mum whose career spans creative therapy, digital leadership, and embodied coaching — all rooted in a lifelong belief in the power of story, presence, and resilience.

I began my professional life in broadcast journalism, co-founding Manchester’s multi-award-winning student radio station and later working on London’s Chris Tarrant Breakfast Show on Capital FM, producing the news and breaking London's major stories. After 9/11, I experienced my first real burnout — though at the time, I didn’t have the language for it. That experience became a turning point, sparking my search for more purposeful ways to live and work.

I hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, graduating with a First for my dissertation on how language shapes our thinking about women — an early expression of my fascination with our identity and the stories we live by. That psychological grounding continues to inform my evidence-based, yet deeply human, approach to change.

I went on to train as a Drama and Movement Therapist at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As a newly qualified therapist, I developed the first dramatherapy roles at both Birmingham Priory and Cygnet Hospital London, creating new models of creative therapeutic practice in adult mental health. My work was later featured on BBC Radio 4, and I became known for integrating imagination, embodiment, and clinical understanding to support meaningful transformation.

During my years as a dramatherapist, I also worked internationally in India and Sri Lanka, training teachers and care workers in drama and theatre techniques for early-years education and community health. These experiences deepened my cross-cultural understanding and my belief that creativity and connection transcend language. I also trained in Keralan dance and qualified as a Sivananda Yoga Teacher, expanding my awareness of how the body carries knowledge, expression, and resilience across cultures.

After more than a decade in therapy, I burnt out again — again without the language. It was a confronting but clarifying moment that revealed how even meaningful work can become unsustainable when we lose touch with our own boundaries and needs.

Determined to find where creativity and innovation were thriving, I broke into the digital industries at 37 — an unconventional move at the time. Despite the odds, I went on to lead large teams and deliver high-performing products with agencies including Somo (now CI&T) and Wunderman Thompson (now VML). For ten years I thrived in that fast-paced world, gaining deep insight into the culture of performance, pressure, and possibility that shapes modern work.

However, juggling the work–life balance with a blended family of four, I also experienced the personal cost of keeping so many plates spinning. When COVID hit, I recognised the familiar signs of burnout once more — but this time, I met it differently. I certified as a One of Many® Coach, returning to my therapeutic and embodied roots with renewed clarity and compassion.

Today, my coaching practice brings together everything I’ve lived and learned — my psychological foundation, clinical depth, creative experience, and digital perspective — to help clients reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel sustainable, authentic, and alive.

I coach clients across the UK and internationally, and have spoken at events including the Hearth Summit in Malaysia. My clients often say I bring both calm and challenge: space to think deeply, with enough structure to move forward.