Who I am
There's more available than most people know.
For a long time I was convinced everyone else had found something I hadn't. Some direction, some sense of knowing what life was actually for. On the outside I was holding down a well-paid job. On the inside, barely holding together. Addicted, anxious, quietly depressed. Underneath all of it was a deeper knowing, a kind of yearning, that there had to be more than this. More than the 9-to-5. More than just getting through the week.
Meditation was the first thing that pointed somewhere worth going. I taught myself and practised seriously for years. But there was a whole layer I couldn't reach. A numbness, a tension held so deep I wasn't even aware of it. What other approaches gave me, working somatically and with parts, wasn't a change in the meditation. It was the ability to feel again. And once that came back, what had once felt like white water, all current and noise, barely keeping your head above, started to open into something else. Something more like a dance of sensation.
I held back from offering this work for a long time. It didn't feel right until I'd walked far enough to know where the path goes, and far enough to know it keeps going. I'm continuing that now through formal counselling training, alongside the contemplative work that started it all. What I want for the people who come here is the kind of freedom that was always just there, waiting. The kind that was always closer than it seemed.
Coaching
Appreciative & Contemplative Coaching
A strengths-based approach that begins from what's already working and builds toward where you want to go, at whatever depth the moment calls for.
Meditation
Certified TMI Teacher
Certified teacher of The Mind Illuminated, a structured ten-stage approach to building sustained attention and embodied awareness. Offered both within coaching and as a standalone practice.
Counselling Training
Postgraduate Counselling Coursework
Has completed postgraduate counselling coursework and is continuing toward a counselling qualification.
Approach
Parts-Work & Pattern Change
Draws on Internal Family Systems principles and coherence-informed approaches (including memory reconsolidation) to meet stuck patterns with curiosity, and work where change actually takes hold, beneath insight alone.
A note on scope
This work is coaching, not therapy or clinical treatment. It is non-diagnostic and does not replace licensed psychiatric or psychological care. I am continuing my training toward a counselling qualification, and as part of good practice, client work is reflected on within appropriate professional supervision. If something arises that falls outside the scope of coaching, I'll recommend a suitable referral. Operated within the boundaries of the HPCA Act 2003.
