My journey into psychotherapy has been deeply personal and far from straightforward. After more than 20 years in the military aviation industry - including time based in Dhahran during the First Gulf War - I built a successful corporate IT career, leading large teams and managing multi-million-pound budgets. That high-pressure world taught me first-hand the cost of chronic stress, relentless performance demands, and eventual burnout.
Real change began when I stopped focusing only on what I didn’t want and started asking better questions. That shift led me into holistic healing and, eventually, into integrative psychotherapy. Through my own recovery I came to see that lasting change usually involves three movements:
Regulate — calm and rebalance the nervous system so the body feels safer.
Rewrite — gently update the old stories, beliefs and life scripts that keep us circling.
Reconnect — rebuild a more compassionate and authentic relationship with ourselves and with life.
My Journey — From Holistic Roots to Integrative Psychotherapy
Along the way I trained as a yoga teacher, energy worker and massage therapist. I qualified in NLP, business and life coaching, and spent years with somatic practices, breathwork, trauma-informed bodywork, polyvagal theory, HeartMath and heart-rate variability. I also made significant nutritional changes and published books exploring wellbeing and personal transformation.
This lived experience — from the cockpit to the boardroom to the therapy room — still shapes how I work. I bring clinical training together with nervous-system awareness and body-based practices, supporting clients through the full process of Regulate, Rewrite and Reconnect.
How My Understanding of the Work Has Changed
When I first began seeing clients I was very focused on psychoeducation. I wanted to share the theories and frameworks I had learned during my diploma training, almost as if the knowledge itself were the magic. Over time, and especially as I moved into the higher diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling, that shifted.
I came to see that therapy is not primarily about fixing or changing someone. Through a Gestalt lens in particular, it is more about helping people develop greater awareness and spend more time in the here and now. When a strong therapeutic relationship is in place, it becomes possible to walk alongside someone as they explore their own world of experience — their phenomenology — more fully. From that clearer contact with themselves, inner peace, calm and focus tend to grow naturally, and the quality of life improves from the inside out.
Therapists also need to do their own work. Deepening awareness and continuing to grow is a lifelong process. Teachers and mentors change as we change. I remain a student of the work as well as a practitioner of it.
My Training & Credentials
Additional training includes advanced breathwork, business and performance coaching, holistic bodywork, HeartMath and heart-rate variability, and further study in nervous-system and trauma-informed practices. I bring more than 20 years of continuous professional development that blends clinical understanding with holistic and somatic experience.
I am a fully qualified integrative psychotherapist. My core training is in humanistic, cognitive-behavioural and transactional analysis approaches, and I continue to develop in Gestalt as a natural extension of that foundation. I am an RYT 500 Advanced Yoga Teacher and registered member of Yoga Alliance since 2017.
My Self-Published Books
While training I wrote books exploring themes that frequently arise in the work — the mind-body connection, the search for meaning, and the path toward greater emotional resilience and self-compassion. Each offers practical insights drawn from both personal experience and clinical practice.
I hope they invite reflection and serve as useful companions on your own journey.
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