From owning two successful businesses in Asia, hitchhiking in Africa at 17, sailing around Malaysia or motorbiking through the Rift Valley, I’ve always had a pioneering spirit and love for adventure and exploring the world.

Art, literature, music and poetry were always very important too. The questions such as, Who am I? What is the meaning of my life? and Why Does It Hurt? where nevertheless constant companions. 

I studied philosophy, art criticism and critical theory in the form of two MA's one with Sotheby’s Institute, the other with the City University. My academic focus and thesis was on the articulation of trauma in 20th-century poetry and art. 

Despite being relatively successful in the art world, I wanted something more and I dreamt about working more intimately with people. I researched psychotherapy and counselling but those disciplines didn't feel quite right. 

But when I came across Life Coaching and NLP in 2006 and I immediately resonated with the philosophy and thinking.

You're not a victim of the past. No matter what happened you are so much more.

You have the capacity to make the changes.

Life coaching believes you are more powerful than anything that happened to you. You have a soul, a free will and the resourcefulness with the right help to make any changes you want. 

Imagine being the person who does that for people.

And not only that this doesn’t have to be hard it can be fun and enjoyable!

Life coaching and NLP wasn't just a career change for me; it was a personal transformation.

It helped me move from feeling stuck and unfulfilled in a career I didn’t like, to living a life with purpose. I used everything I learnt to transform my own life, my personal life, my relationships, my finances, and my career.

And here I am today, 17 years later, a full-time private life coach with NLP, the founder of the Courage Coaching Academy.

Today my personal practice is  compassionately resolving trauma through EMDR, and building an authentic and successful life through Coaching and NLP.

The past does not define you. No matter how complex your upbringing, or the experiences you've had, you can create a life that makes you happy today.

We all have within us a sense of who we could be with the right therapy or coaching. 

I believe that you are not broken, and you don’t need fixing. 

Irrational behaviours, anxiety, hurt, sadness and depression are all expressions of hidden pain. This doesn't mean something is wrong with you.

Our work together functions to heal that pain from the inside out.

Willpower or CBT will not work because those methods try to work from the outside in to force a change in thinking and behaviour. But you can't think yourself out of pain, anxiety or sadness. 

With EMDR & IFS we heal the hidden pain giving rise to these symptoms in the first place. 

The result is the problematic behaviours, self-sabotage, sadness and depression spontaneously resolve themselves. 

You get to a place of self-compassion, self-understanding and self-acceptance. 

This fosters a radical new relationship with self.