Professional Practice: Training, Qualifications & Credentials
About My Training & Professional Practice:
Choosing someone to guide you through healing is a significant decision. This page is to help you discover my professional background, how I’ve trained, and what grounds my practice.
My Foundation: Lived Experience
My work begins with something no qualification can fully teach: I have lived this. I recovered from decades of chronic invisible illness and cancer. I know what it is to have tried everything and found nothing lasting. I know what real recovery feels like from the inside.
That experience shapes everything I do; the way I guide people, the pace I hold, and the tools I choose.
Professional Training
My practice is grounded in evidence-informed mind-body medicine, including brain rewiring, somatic approaches, and emotional healing, developed through structured training with leading practitioners in the field:
- SIRPA Neuroplasticity Practitioner Training — 2026
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Practitioner — 2023 & 2025
- Mental Health First Aider Certification (MHFA)
- Somatic Healing Practice, SF — 2023
- Mindbody Practitioner Training — 2022 (TMS/PRT frameworks)
- Meditation Teacher Training — 2022
- Diploma in Coaching — 2018
I also hold postgraduate degrees in Writing and Film, and earlier academic Bachelor of Arts degrees, which inform the depth and rigour I bring to ongoing research in this field.
Professional Associations
I am a registered practitioner with:
- UKiHCA: (UK & International Health Coaching Association)
- SIRPA: Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association (UK)
- ATNS: Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (USA)
These registrations reflect a commitment to ethical, evidence-informed practice and ongoing professional development.
What I Am, and What I Am Not
I am a mind-body practitioner, writer and somatic coach. I am not a licensed psychotherapist or doctor, and my work sits within the coaching, somatic practice and emotional healing framework, which draws on neuroscience and mind-body research. If you’re unsure whether this approach is right for your situation, the free discovery call is a good place to find out.