Qualifications

What gives me confidence in my work is not a single method or technique, but an ability to understand what is happening beneath the surface — emotionally, physically, and relationally — and to respond with care, structure, and discernment.

I work as a psychotherapist and a Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach. I’ve learned what I know through formal training, supervision, lived experience, and my own inner work, as well as many years of observing how people actually change.

I have always been someone who notices patterns. Not only in ideas or systems, but in people — tone, emotion, what is said, and what is left unsaid. From an early age, I was sensitive to the emotional world around me, even when I did not yet know how to respond to it or make sense of what I was picking up.

Over time, I learned that this sensitivity needed grounding, structure, and context. I needed to do my own work, and I needed containers that made it possible to stay present rather than overwhelmed. Through therapy, supervision, formal training, and lived experience, that way of perceiving the world became something I could work with consciously and responsibly.

Today, it shows up as an ability to hold space with steadiness and clarity, especially when things are complex, emotionally charged, or hard to articulate. I work best within clear relational containers, where attention, safety, and trust allow deeper patterns to emerge without being rushed or forced.

Formal Qualifications & Training

• National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)

• Professional Member, Health Coaches ANZ Association (HCANZA)

• Professional Diploma of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, The Crucible Centre

• Certified Embodied Processing Practitioner, The Centre for Healing

• Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Certified Coach

• Health Coach Training Program, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
  with additional training in hormone health, gut health, and emotional eating

• Practitioner, Master Practitioner, and Trainer of NLP, The Coaching Institute

• Diploma of Life Coaching, The Coaching Institute

• Matrix Therapies Training, Pip McKay

• Certified Yoga Teacher, International Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA)

• Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Modelling & Computer Simulation,
  Coventry University, UK

• Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics & Computer Science,
  Leicester Polytechnic (De Montfort University), UK

Professional Standards & Governance

Health and wellness coaching is a largely unregulated field. I am a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), certified through the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching. This credential reflects extensive formal training, supervised practice, and adherence to professional and ethical standards, and provides governance and accountability in an otherwise variable industry.

Lineage, Teachers, and Depth of Training

My training in transpersonal psychotherapy at The Crucible Centre shaped me profoundly. It was not simply academic training, but experiential work that required me to meet myself at depth. Through this training, I learned the power of symbolic and imaginal processes such as sandplay, voice dialogue, and energetic awareness.

One of the core truths I carry from this work is that no therapist can hold someone further in their process than they have gone themselves. The Crucible took me to my core and back, and it continues to inform how I work with seriousness, humility, and respect for the psyche.

My training with The Centre for Healing deepened my understanding of trauma, the nervous system, and addiction, particularly the central role of safety, regulation, and somatic awareness. This work gave me a lived, embodied understanding of trauma responses that no purely academic course could offer.

I continue to learn through ongoing professional supervision, peer consultation, and my own inner work. I am especially grateful to be part of a small, long-standing peer group who meet quarterly for extended sandplay work. This keeps me grounded in the depth and integrity of transpersonal practice.

Lived Experience & Health Journey

Living with an autoimmune condition became a powerful teacher, though not one I welcomed at first. What began as shock and fear eventually led me to investigate what genuinely supports healing.

Through this process, I learned how profoundly food, inflammation, stress, and emotional states interact. I also learned that physical healing was not possible while I remained entrenched in anger, resentment, or unresolved emotional pain. That recognition changed how I lived, how I related to my body, and how I understood healing.

Practices such as yoga, meditation, and a relationship with a deeper healing intelligence emerged naturally through this process, not as beliefs to adopt, but as lived necessities.

In all honesty, without illness I may not have been forced to sort my life out as thoroughly as I did. I hear a similar truth reflected in recovery communities, including twelve-step work, which I respect deeply. As one of my teachers once said, the salve is in the wound. Or, as Leonard Cohen put it, there is a crack in everything — that’s how the light gets in.

Continuing Study & Professional Practice

I am currently completing a Master of Counselling at Torrens University, Australia. Studying foundational counselling theory after many years of specialist and experiential training has deepened my understanding of ethics, therapeutic process, and the fundamentals of good clinical practice.

I engage in ongoing professional supervision and reflective practice to ensure that my work remains safe, ethical, and responsive.

This way of working is not about quick fixes or technique-driven therapy. It is for those who sense that real change comes from being met, understood, and guided at depth — not managed, analysed, or pushed.

If you have questions about my background or training, you’re welcome to reach out or begin with a free Discovery Call.