I know what it feels like when the life you've built starts to feel like someone else's.
Not because I've studied it from the outside. Because I've lived it — the kind of falling apart that arrives despite having done the work.
Despite knowing yourself. Despite being capable, experienced, and self-aware.
And now I know what it takes to find your way back.
The moment everything changed — and the sentence that got me through it.
The hardest season of my life arrived in the form of the menopause. I had spent years working on myself — my mind, my body, my sense of who I was. I had led organisations, navigated more transitions than most, and built a life I was proud of.
And then my body and mind seemed to turn against me. Not gradually. All at once.
My lust for life disappeared. I found myself in panic in places I used to love, with people I enjoyed being with. The things that had always grounded me stopped working. And the one thing I had always been able to come back to — my trust in myself — felt like it had gone too.
What I couldn't know then was that this was not the end of myself. It was the beginning of the most important work I would ever do.
I haven't come this far and worked this hard to lose everything.
There is more to a person than their hardest chapters.
I share my story not to dwell in it — but because I know that when you are in the middle of something that feels unsurvivable and in those times of emotional overwhelm, it helps to know that the person sitting with you has been somewhere similar. And found a way through that was worth finding.
On the other side of everything I've described is a life I genuinely love. I started dancing at fifty — Ballroom, Latin, Argentine Tango. I grow vegetables. I paint in pastels and watercolours. I am a volunteer organiser for a community art group with currently over thirty members — something that has given me as much as I have given it. And I have such amazing friends. Friendships that I know will last a lifetime.
I tell you this because I want you to know that Back to Being You is not a promise I make lightly. It is something I have lived. And it is more than worth the journey.
Decades of experience. All of it in service of this.
I bring to this work everything I have learned — professionally and personally — over a lifetime spent at the intersection of people and change.
I have led mental health services, hospices and charities for older people. I have held CEO roles, developed and delivered services from the ground up, and sat with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives. I know what it looks like when someone is holding too much. And I know what it looks like when they finally don't have to anymore.
The methods I use — as a somatic Mind-Body Practitioner, and Mace Energy Method Practitioner both techniques that I wish I'd had access to during my own hardest seasons. They work not by analysing what's wrong, but by working directly with the body and nervous system, where real and lasting change begins. It's subtle at first, but then you start to notice the effect its having, it compounds. Your body starts to feel different, your relationships begin to improve, and how you conduct yourself is forever altered. Life feels more possible again, and with that possibility comes choice. It's you who decides how you want to live, nothing or noone else gets to take the reigns anymore, you do. Get Back to Being you is about finding joy in your life again, just as I did.
Grounded. Steady. Entirely at your pace.
The way I work is unhurried and human. There is no pressure to arrive with the right words or explain yourself perfectly. We begin with where you are — whatever that looks like — and we go from there.
I will not judge what you bring
Whatever you are carrying — however long you have carried it, however strange or shameful it has felt — it will be met here with acceptance. Not approval or disapproval. Simply acceptance.
I will not rush you
The work moves at your pace. Always. There is no agenda beyond what is right for you, in this session, at this moment.
I will not try to fix you
You are not broken. My job is not to save you or solve you — it is to walk alongside you, steadily, until you find your way back to being you.
I will hold the mirror steady
But only when you are ready — at your own pace, in your own time — I will help you see yourself clearly. Not to expose you. But to show you what has been there all along, waiting to be recognised. And to guide you back to being you.
This work is for you if —
You have done a lot of inner work — and something still isn't shifting
You are carrying something you have never quite been able to say out loud
You are tired of managing — you are ready for something to actually change
You don't want to be fixed — you want to be guided back to yourself
You have quiet courage — even if it doesn't feel that way right now
Somewhere underneath the exhaustion, part of you is still leaning forward.
You don't have to feel ready.
You just have to be willing.
If something here has spoken to you —
Reach out. You don't need the right words or a clear sense of what you need. A short conversation is enough — a quiet space to talk through where you are and whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure. No commitment. Just a conversation between two human beings.
Tell me where you are right now. Even if it's hard to put into words. That's exactly where we start.
Not sure if this is right for you? Read Before You Begin first.