Discover Healing Through The Arts & The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

About Me

​For a long stretch of my teens and 20's, I suffered from what many people feel, but do not talk about enough: a lack of self-love, never ever feeling good enough or worthy. I battled with self-criticism, perfectionism and almost constant severe anxiety and depression. I was always looking for ways to escape myself and my reality - hoping to run away from myself, and the painful emotions I felt. When we feel such a sense of pain and sadness, we will attempt to find ways to escape, in order to survive. My routes of escape became anorexia, depression, dissociation, binge-eating, over-exercising, excessive partying and drinking, losing myself trying to "save" other people in very toxic relationships, and chronic people pleasing, which eventually all lead me to quite severe physical illness. The truth is that I could not bare to sit in the silence of who I was, because I did not know nor like who I was. When I became very physically unwell with Lyme disease, co-infections, severe and multiple food and chemical allergies, and a number of cysts all over my body, I really struggled to see any light at the end of the tunnel, and any reason to continue living or existing. I spent a lot of my time feeling so sick, I was in a lot of pain, and I was in and out of hospital all the time. My body had finally said NO. It was screaming out for help, and it did not want to live like this anymore. It had tried to talk to me, to send me intuitive signals, but I hadn't been listening. For years and years, I had continued living a reality where I felt so deeply unhappy, and my body had become so unwell as a result.

I begun with my doctor's help trying to get better. But the more I attempted different forms of physical healing, I noticed I was only improving so much. Overtime, it became more and more obvious to me how unhealthy my MIND was, and I begun to wonder if this was seriously holding me back in my physical recovery. From observing my own experience and the experiences of people I met at the hospital, it became clear that there was a direct link between my life circumstances, my emotions, my happiness levels (or lack of) and how healthy my mind and therefore body was. So I decided to take a different more holistic approach, and I begun to not just work on my body's physical health, but I also started to see a therapist so I could work on the health, resilience and happiness of my mind and my soul too. And I soon realised that the more I worked on myself, not just physically, but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually, the more my body begun to truly get better and heal. I started to meditate every single day. I was doing future visualisations of me getting better. And I was now starting to make real progress.

I have adored music and creativity in all forms since I was very young, and singing and songwriting in particular. After spending many months really physically unwell, I decided to apply to study for a Masters in Music Performance and Songwriting at Leeds College of Music. I was surrounded by an amazing community of people, and I made incredible like-minded friends. I started to sing every single day, and I spent a lot of time expressing myself through songwriting. I noticed how very healing this was for me. My mental health improved dramatically, and so did my physical health. It was quite literally a miracle. It made me realise how powerful the combination of creativity and community has on our health. Quite a few years later I decided to study for a Diploma to become a Holistic Integrated Creative Arts & Meditation Therapy Practitioner at The Holistic Academy, because I now want to spread this knowledge to other people, and help them to feel better too.

I believe that love has such a huge ability to heal us all: love from others and love from ourselves, and this is something I want to integrate into my practice as a therapist too. I am so committed to each and every one of my clients, and helping them to figure out who they are, and to live a life free from unhappiness, dis-ease, illness and pain. I have huge empathy, deep understanding and non-judgement for all of my clients, because I understand how difficult it is to get yourself out of a dark place. Even now, I still continue to work on myself, whilst I help my clients to do the same.

I offer a mix of group and one-to-one therapy sessions including Creative Arts Therapy, Holistic Coaching and Meditation Sessions. All my one-to-one sessions are designed specifically for you as a unique individual, whilst my group sessions are to help clients to build beneficial relationships and reflect on themselves in a team. I also plan to run a number of Meditation, Creative Arts Therapy, Wellness & Cacao Mini Festivals and Events in Guatemala, London/England and around Europe.