I believe that creativity is the energy that powers our lives, and I love working in creative ways, with creative people. My practice is informed by theoretical ideas drawn from Gestalt and Existentialism and I passionately believe in supporting people to make meaningful choices for themselves. I believe in mistakes and mess and lives fully lived not perfectly lived. I believe in stories and poetry and mystery. As I work, I feel myself surrounded and uplifted by my communities of practice - of artists, audiences, coaches, coachees, both past and present. I feel privileged to be able to share my knowledge, experience, and opinion with people in many ways. I write and speak publicly about the topics that interest me and it is my great joy to be visible and have a voice in the world. 

I am an EMCC Accredited Master Practitioner and Coach Supervisor. I have an MSc in Coaching and Mentoring, taught on that Masters programme for several years and was course leader for a couple more. I have numerous Post Graduate certificates including one in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education of which I am extremely proud. I am a trained Time to Think practitioner and a qualified Coach Supervisor. I spent two years of a PhD pursuing the slippery idea that coaching and supervision are art forms and I continue to explore that question in everything I do. Sometimes I wear my credentials like a crown and sometimes like a coat that I can take on and off, but they are always there, reminding me that someone somewhere has deemed me ‘fit’ and qualified to do my work. 

As an existentialist (I can hear my family laughing as I say this, it’s a great source of amusement to them that I claim this identity) I believe that life exists only in the here in now, that the past is an echo or a ghost, the future is a dream. I passionately believe in coaching and supervision as spaces of encouragement and non-judgement that support people to find their voices, speak freely and claim their agency so that they can act on and in the world in ways that they choose. 

‘Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, 

A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou 

Beside me singing in the Wilderness - 

And Wilderness is Paradise enow.’

– Omar Khayyam,
Persian mathematician and mystic

In a world of complexity and uncertainty, the Wilderness, I believe it is miraculous to create a place in which we can sing together, express ourselves, be heard and seen.