I came to psychotherapy later than most, and that matters. 

Before I trained as a therapist, I spent twenty years working in business and leadership — first in senior roles in international retail, then as an executive coach and organisational psychologist, and later as director of operations for a start-up that grew significantly during my time there. That career gave me genuine insight into what it means to carry professional responsibility, to lead under pressure, and to navigate the demands that high-performing roles place on people — not just professionally, but personally. 

Over time, I found myself increasingly drawn to something the work only touched the surface of: the internal world of the people I worked alongside. The ambition, the doubt, the question of whether the life being built was the life being wanted. I wanted to work with that more directly and more honestly. That eventually led me to retrain as a psychotherapist. 

That pull was partly personal. Like many people who become therapists, I had my own experience of what it means to sit with difficult questions about who you are and how you want to live. That doesn’t make me an expert on anyone else’s life — but it does mean I don’t come to this work from the outside. 

I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent’s University London — a full, standalone qualification with which I am registered with the BACP. I am currently completing a Master’s in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s, deepening a practice that is already well underway. I work at the Royal Academy of Music and in private practice in West London.