About Me

When I first joined PwC, I thought I had made it. Working for a prestigious firm felt like success and, on paper, I was following a path that made sense. Yet somewhere underneath that, I knew it wasn't an environment in which I was thriving.

My confidence was very low at the time, and leaving felt far more difficult than staying. So I stayed for over 13 years, taking one opportunity after another and building a successful career, while the things I felt genuinely drawn towards remained quietly in the background. Security, status and the familiarity of the path I was on made it easy to keep going, even when part of me knew I wanted something different.

Eventually, staying became harder than leaving.

Walking away from that environment became an important turning point. As I began making choices that were more aligned with who I was, my confidence grew, and many of the beliefs I'd carried about myself began to change. Setting up my own business wasn't simply about finding different work; it allowed me to discover parts of myself that I hadn't previously accessed.

My own inner work

My professional journey has always been closely connected with my personal one.

For many years, I didn't recognise how disconnected I had become from myself. I had found ways of numbing what I was feeling and spent a great deal of my life looking outside myself for the acceptance, reassurance and love I struggled to give myself.

Learning to relate to myself differently has probably been the most significant part of my own development. What began as trying to understand why I felt the way I did gradually became a much deeper exploration of my emotions, patterns, relationships, body and inner life.

Over time, I moved from a relationship with myself that could be highly critical and unforgiving towards one with much more kindness, acceptance and self-trust. I learned that liking myself wasn't dependent on becoming a better version of myself first. And as my relationship with myself changed, the way I approached relationships, work and life changed with it.

In 2018, after two decades in the corporate world, I finally chose to make personal development and supporting others the focus of my professional life.

Why I work the way I do

My own experience is one of the reasons I don't believe meaningful change happens through the mind alone.

Understanding ourselves intellectually can be enormously valuable, but sometimes we can understand a pattern very well and still find ourselves repeating it. Our emotions, bodies, relationships, habitual responses and ways of protecting ourselves can all be part of the picture.

This is why my work has developed across different disciplines. My training and experience include coaching, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Family Constellations, somatic coaching and bodywork, nervous system awareness, yoga, meditation and spiritual development. I continue to study and deepen my practice because I don't believe there is one approach that is right for every person or every stage of their life.

My work today brings these perspectives together in a whole-person approach that considers the mind, emotions and body, with space for spirituality and energetic perspectives where these are meaningful to the person I'm working with.

A continuing journey

I don't see personal or spiritual development as a journey towards becoming permanently confident, calm or free from difficulty. My own learning continues, and I expect it always will.

What has changed profoundly is the relationship I have with myself. I know myself more deeply, trust myself more readily and am far less likely to abandon or turn against myself when life becomes difficult. I've learned to recognise many of the patterns that once unconsciously shaped my choices, and to meet parts of myself that I might previously have tried to change, suppress or escape.

There is something quite extraordinary about looking back and realising how differently I experience myself now. For much of my earlier life, I second-guessed myself, struggled with low self-esteem and looked outside myself for reassurance that I was okay. Today, I genuinely like who I am. That might sound like a simple statement, but for me it represents many years of inner work.

My life hasn't become perfect as a result. I still encounter uncertainty, difficult emotions, old patterns and the ordinary challenges of being human. The difference is that I have a very different relationship with them.

That is perhaps the greatest thing this journey has taught me: change isn't always about getting rid of the parts of ourselves we find difficult. Sometimes it is the way we relate to ourselves, our emotions and our experience that changes most.

My curiosity about all of this continues. I continue to study, practise, question and explore, psychologically, emotionally, somatically and spiritually. The work I do professionally has grown out of that same enquiry, and it continues to evolve alongside me.