In my 20s, I experienced a huge depression and mental health crisis.

 

I was raised in an alcoholic home and grew up with rock-bottom self-worth and a behavioural survival strategy of high academic achievement and pressure. The wheels were always going to fall off, and they did quite publicly, in a corridor of a college where I was training to be a barrister. I dropped out, went travelling (ran away) and eventually found my way to a counselling room in North London.

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My experience of therapy (free, long-term psychotherapy – now on the endangered list) helped me crawl out of depression and ultimately (shortcut a winding road of civil service jobs and public policy work) to me retraining as a counsellor. But it did more than help me out of a bad time.

 

It transformed my understanding of myself and of how people work.

 

I will forever be grateful to my therapist then and the time we had.

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My work isn’t a job.

 

It's my purpose and mission - to help more people make sense of themselves and live with self-worth and empowerment.

 

It's what fires me up. It's what I know matters.

 

I want to share, with as many people as possible, what I have learnt in my years of personal growth, training and work as a therapist. I have expertise and wisdom to share but I am also human - in the mix of life; struggling, facing challenges, managing my own demons, finding ways to live with purpose and intention. 

 

I have an amazing life. But it will always involve some struggle. My demons are, at best, in hibernation.

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I have the humble privilege of witnessing my amazing therapy clients figure themselves out and find meaningful change. Everything I share and all the work I do rests on what I have learnt from them and in myself.

 

It's our shared humanity which brings me hope - hope for less shame, hope for more connection, hope for our environment, hope for a better world. 

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This is the Wellbeing Revolution - calling back our worth and power from the external world and using it to live with intention and accountability for ourselves, for each other and for our planet.