About me

My background

I took a fairly winding route to becoming a bodyworker. I spent a few years as a management consultant in central London, but it was clear this wasn’t a good fit and a career change soon followed. I worked for several years as a frontline support worker with people experiencing complex and highly challenging mental health issues, homelessness, domestic abuse and care needs. It was important to me to see people as much more than the labels or diagnoses they came with, but I saw first-hand the way in which our mental and physical health services encourage all of us to narrow our focus onto our problems. I observed that as we focus more and more energy onto our pain and our sense of sickness, our identity can become increasingly solidified and stuck around it.

I felt drawn to work in a way where pain was not shied away from or dismissed, but which also supported people to quickly get an embodied sense of their innate health and capacity for wellbeing. Craniosacral therapy, with its orientation towards wholeness and feeling deeply comfortable within one’s own body, was a natural next step.

What craniosacral therapy did for me

It took me a while to learn that in order to feel better I needed to feel more at home in my body. I lived for many years pretty disconnected from my body, while failing to simply think my way out of feeling anxious and depressed. Shortly after starting craniosacral therapy as a client, I found myself thinking: “I don’t understand what is going on here, but I know that something powerful is happening…”

I found that being held by someone who I trusted - a safe, grounded and compassionate presence making gentle contact - allowed my mind and body to relax and shift in a way that had not seemed possible before. I was able to slowly let go of years of anxiety and stress which had been held rigidly in my body. As I felt safe enough to trust and be touched, I began to learn that I could find a deep sense of safety, comfort and pleasure within my own body.

My approach

I have personally been deeply influenced by zen and yogic meditative traditions, and these inform my practice as a therapist. Craniosacral therapy can often be experienced as a type of assisted or supported meditation - using safe touch to relax and become more mindfully aware of one’s inner environment. I have also been greatly influenced by my work with plant medicines, and see craniosacral therapy as a powerful way of integrating and navigating these experiences. More than anything, I have experienced craniosacral therapy as a beautiful means of experiencing wholeness and a sense of coming home, and feel fortunate to be able to share this with others.

My training and accrediation

I am a qualified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST), registered with the Craniosacral Therapy Association UK (CSTA).

I received my Diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy from Body College London where I trained under Steve Haines and Jane Shaw, both highly respected experts in the field with different but deeply complementary approaches. This training is accredited by the Craniosacral Therapy Association UK (CSTA) and International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (IABT).

I have completed the ITEC foundation course in Anatomy and Physiology at St Mary’s University.

"We're all just walking each other home."

Ram Dass