Hello, here's a bit of my story...

Arriving Here…

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My work has emerged through an unusual yet deeply integrated pathway — one that weaves together the artist, pastoral practitioner, somatic psychotherapist, professional supervisor, and at times, guide.
 

I originally trained in Fine Art and Art Education before moving into pastoral ministry and later Clinical Pastoral Education within the Catholic healthcare system. Over more than twelve years working in acute healthcare and bereavement care, I supported patients, families, and staff across palliative, surgical, oncology, maternity, and critical care environments, while also contributing to leadership, quality improvement, reflective practice, and staff formation.
 

It was during this clinical work that I became increasingly interested in the deeper relationship between the body, suffering, attachment, belief systems, grief, and human resilience.
 

In 2012, under the guidance of my clinical supervisor, I began formal training in the Hakomi Method — a mindfulness-based, body-centred psychotherapy grounded in somatic awareness, relational attunement, and the study of unconscious patterns. Since then, somatic awareness as a pathway for self-discovery and healing has become central to both my therapeutic and supervisory work. My professional formation now includes more than 700+ hours of experiential and advanced professional training (Master’s equivalent) in Hakomi Mindful-Somatic Psychotherapy, Clinical Pastoral Education, Reflective Supervision, trauma-informed care, attachment theory, bereavement support, neurophysiology, bio-energetics, mindfulness-based practice, and contemporary spiritual care.

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Beginning in 2014, I entered what has now become more than a decade-long journey into Hakomi Mindful-Somatic Psychotherapy - first through supervision with a Hakomi-trained psychotherapist, and later through extensive professional training, study, and personal practice within the modality. Over the years, I found myself quietly translating the maps and principles of somatic psychotherapy into the world of spiritual care. What began as “adding body awareness” to pastoral work slowly became something much deeper - a growing recognition that spirituality itself is profoundly embodied and perhaps could never really be otherwise.
 

Through Hakomi, and later Neurophysics therapy, I began to appreciate the wisdom held within the nervous system, the unfinished stories carried quietly in posture and gesture, and the deeply human ways we organise ourselves around love, protection, belonging, grief, and survival. It taught me to trust the slower, bottom-up process of healing and to notice how transformation often emerges gently; through awareness, relationship, and compassionate presence rather than force.
 

Somewhere along the way, I also discovered that therapeutic work is rarely about “fixing” people. More often, it is about helping them value the fragments of themselves they once rejected and learning to recognise beauty, meaning, and wholeness in places they never expected to find it, and most of all, in the present moment of the shared experience in which I encounter them. 
 

Between 2018 and 2020, I completed Hakomi Levels 1 and 2 of the professional training, later returning to repeat Level 2 [who on earth repeats psychotherapy training!?] to deepen and more fully embody the principles of the method. In 2026, I have undertaken the final Level 3 in advanced supervision within the Hakomi Method and can now officially call myself an Advanced Student of Hakomi Psychotherapy. 

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Alongside psychotherapy and supervision, I currently work as an Industrial Chaplain within the resources sector in the West Australian Pilbara, supporting FIFO workers through trauma-informed, person-centred emotional and spiritual care. Remaining actively engaged in frontline spiritual care keeps my practice grounded in the realities of contemporary industry life and continually informs my supervisory and therapeutic work. This role has expanded my understanding of psychosocial risk, workplace wellbeing, resilience, and the complex realities of remote and FIFO living. I also contribute to the development of care frameworks, procedural guidelines, and reflective support systems aligned with contemporary HSE and psychosocial safety principles.

 

My therapeutic orientation could best be described as Somatic-Informed Spiritual Care - an integrative approach bringing together mindful awareness, embodied psychology, reflective practice, grief work, spirituality, nervous system regulation, and compassionate presence. Rather than separating the psychological, spiritual, emotional, and physical dimensions of life, I work from the understanding that healing often emerges through their integration.

 

Today my work includes psychotherapy, reflective supervision, coaching, professional debriefing, and education for clinicians, chaplains, organisational leaders, and professional caregivers seeking greater depth, sustainability, resilience, and authenticity in both life and work.
 

And at the heart of it all, the artist in me remains close to everything I do.
 

I continue to believe that creativity, awareness, reflection, and compassionate relationship are central to human healing and transformation. As you heal, so do I. 
 

And so, the journey continues.