About Me

My personal quest for meaning and healing has taken me through multiple trainings and vocations across four continents in the last four decades.

I am well-educated in many areas, reflected in the which I use in my work. We will figure out which ones work best for you.

Much of my thinking has been influenced by Ken Wilber, the biggest-picture theorist of them all.

I am fully qualified and indemnified as a life coach, psychotherapist and yoga/tantra teacher.

My Journey

1983 -1990

Seeking Meaning, Healing & Growth

Aged 24, I quit a lucrative corporate career in London, UK because I came to recognise that I was living the life my parents wanted for me, not the one I wanted for myself.

I discovered yoga shortly after ending my London career. Drawn as much by meditation as physical postures and breathwork, I learned the skills of attention, focus and visualisation. I overcame asthma, psoriasis and a functional scoliosis and am now 1.5 inches taller than my twentysomething self and no longer walk with a limp.

1983 -1990

1990 - 2000

Mental Health Nursing

I trained as a Mental Health Nurse in the UK in 1990 and worked for the NHS for ten years in adult acute wards, a therapeutic community, a semi-secure unit and a day hospital.

1990 - 2000

1996 - 2000

Psychotherapy

I began training as a psychotherapist at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in 1996 and qualified in 2000. I was given dispensation to work with clients from 1997 and ran a clinic from the Institute itself.

By 2001, I had thriving practices in Manchester and Hebden Bridge and ended my nursing career.

1996 - 2000

2000 - 2009

Consolidation

I registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapists (UKCP) and began supervising and teaching in 2006.

During this period, I undertook extensive training in Theravadan and Tibetan Buddhism.

My greatest teaching though, came through single-parenting my son, who lived with me through most of his adolescence.

2000 - 2009

2009 - 2015

Founding a Yoga Centre

In 2009 I founded, and ran (until 2017), the purpose-built Calderdale Yoga Centre in Hebden Bridge, UK where I taught yoga and meditation, including the Yogacampus Teacher Training Meditation Module.

I am certified by the British Wheel of Yoga and the Yoga Alliance.. I have taught yoga in universities, care homes, gyms, NHS mental health wards, a semi-secure unit, a specialist chronic back pain clinic and the Calderdale Yoga Centre.

I have trained NHS nurses, secondary school teachers and trainee yoga teachers in meditation and yoga-based stress/trauma management techniques.

2009 - 2015

2015 - 2018

Training in Integral and Somatic Psychotherapy

In 2015, I qualified as a Certified Integral Psychotherapist with Mark Forman in the USA.

In 2019 I spent a year studying Bioenergetics with John Hawken in the Czech Republic. Under John’s tutelage, I qualified as a transformational bodyworker in Thailand in 2017.

I have a long-standing love of Ken Wilber’s Integral Worldview, and his thinking permeates my work.

2015 - 2018

2018

Integral Life Coaching

By 2018, motivated by a need to extend my desire to heal beyond the psychotherapeutic, I trained as an Associate Life Coach with in Vancouver. ICC are one of the world’s most highly valued Life Coach training organisations. I graduated with Distinction.

2018

2016 - Present Day

Tantra

In 2016 I became interested in the possibilities offered by modern tantra for personal growth, particularly through the cultivation of life force and shadow reclamation techniques.

I sit on the Paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty following a five year apprenticeship with its founder John Hawken.

I am also Lead Facilitator with James Stevenson’s Awaken As Love Faculty, which runs retreats combining modern tantra and shamanism, Biodanza and Integral theory.

2016 - Present Day

Having personally undertaken an extensive healing journey using yoga, psychotherapy and life coaching, I now combine all three approaches into a powerful, integrated form of personal development which reaches into your core, vitalising and harmonising every aspect of your life.

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