I began my NHS career in 1998 and spent many years working as a Health Adviser and counsellor in sexual health and HIV services, including at University College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, Chelsea and Westminster, and Eastern and Coastal Kent NHS Trusts. During this time, I studied psychodynamic counselling at WPF, the Westminster Pastoral Foundation. This work shaped my understanding of how people protect themselves, relate to others, manage risk and find ways to change.

After 15 years in the NHS, a back injury made it difficult to continue with seated counselling work in the same way. During a period of pain and uncertainty, I began practising yoga regularly. It supported my injury, but also offered something deeper: enjoyment, mental engagement and a quietening of internal chatter. I went on to study personal training and yoga, exploring how movement, breath and physical practice could support therapeutic and behavioural change.

Yoga and meditation have been part of my life for over 25 years. I have been teaching since 2012 and am a long-term student of Cyndi Lee and the OM Yoga approach, where alignment-based vinyasa, mindfulness, compassion and Buddhist philosophy are integrated.

My relationship with the natural world began much earlier. As a child, I sought out woods, streams and the seashore whenever I could. That connection has remained a constant in my life and continues to inform the way I think about attention, interconnection and change.

This part of my work finds a home at Mulino Carletti, a restored watermill in the Apennine mountains, where I host small retreats shaped by yoga, meditation, walking, reflection and the surrounding landscape.

Today, these different strands come together in a practice that can move between conversation and practical support, psychological and behavioural understanding, contemplative practice and the body. I work privately with a small number of clients, adapting the work to the individual and the circumstances in which they find themselves.