Grounded Compassion.

About Me

Growing up on a farm taught me to find solutions and not give-up.

I love nature, adventure and I LOVE a research rabbit hole. I’m a closet anthropologist, epidemiologist and neuro-nerd.

I think I’ll be exploring my spirituality until my final hour – and I’ve designed it so my spirituality sits alongside science rather than against it.

I’m a woman, mother, wife, trying-to-be artist, conservationist, yoga lover, someone with invisible illness’, and an uber-competitive card player. When I have enough spoons, I’m also very sociable and seek experiences that make me laugh.

My Background

My journey began at age fifteen, with Silva Method training — and with it, my first taste of spirituality.

Human Movement came next, where I found yoga. OT followed after 3 years of travelling the world. OT widened my lens. That holistic view of human function sat well with me.

Nearly twenty years as a paediatric OT followed, with policy work in women's and children's health along the way. My PhD began in 2019, and somewhere in the middle of it came a clear realisation:

I needed a much deeper understanding of mental health.

So I found it — several years in acute mental health, a mental health endorsement, and eventually this, my own private practice.

Along the way I’ve achieved training in project management, clinical supervision, Yin Yoga, MHFA facilitation, Sensory Modulation, DBT, ACT and Motivational interviewing, and progressing towards full EMDR certification.

My Why

I do this work because too many women have been misdiagnosed.

(I was told my period-related syncope was because I couldn’t tolerate pain).

I want women to know they are not alone, not imagining it, and not failing at something everyone else seems to find easy. There is an explanation, and it is far kinder than the story social media enjoys feeding us.

The rest is practical: making sense of your body, and finding ways to honour rather than override it. Recovery does not come from pushing harder. It comes from understanding, trauma-processing, compassion, and learning to trust your voice again.