About Me
I'm an ex-NHS Strategist turned psychotherapist, writer, consultant, facilitator and artist, working through stories, spaces and systems to explore what helps us heal, connect and belong.
The thread running through all of my work is the same: creating spaces where stories can be heard and deeply human experiences have somewhere to belong.
Professionally, across the last two decades, I’ve led multi-million pound community programmes, co-designed NHS strategic advisory and patient forums to support £5bn strategy development, headed up transformation for a large NHS acute trust and created pioneering peer led support spaces.
More recently, I am the host of the globally recognised podcast and community 'The Late Discovered Club' - the number one ranked podcast for late-identified autistic women, as well as producer and host of the NHS funded ‘Autism Central’ podcast. And over the last decade I have supported hundreds of women through peer support circles, 1:1 therapy and community support.
My bestselling book ‘Rediscovered’ is currently being translated internationally, with my memoir ‘Still Living’ published in April 2026. And I am currently writing my third book ‘What The Wild Returns' - exploring nature, healing, relationship and belonging in our hardest seasons.
Through my 'Gather + Belong' Circle Design Programme, I empower individuals and organisations to create trauma-informed, neuro-inclusive peer spaces that are deeply human. Alongside this, I offer supervision, reflective practice and psychological support for practitioners, facilitators, programmes and teams whose work involves holding space for others.
At the end of 2025 I was appointed as an Associate to co-author and deliver a PEERS framework for the £6 million NHS funded National Autism Peer Education Programme - as well as producing and hosting the podcast for the programme and being a lead Associate on Quality Assurance.
Alongside my creative work, I collaborate with organisations across healthcare, wellness, education and community sectors through my consultancy - including working as an Associate for the Anna Freud Centre in London.
Whether I’m developing national NHS training content, advising and shaping programmes (from design through to delivery), transforming services and workforces or guest lecturing the next generation of neuro affirming therapists - my work is rooted in compassion and a deep commitment to inclusion.
A two-time breast cancer survivor, I live on the edge of the moors in Ilkley, Yorkshire in the UK where the landscape inspires and informs much of my writing and creative work.
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Why work with me?
My Work
My work moves between stories, spaces and systems - from the stories and voices I help make space for, to the reflective and community spaces I hold, and the work I create with organisations.
Supervision + Reflective Practice: For people who hold space for others
I offer 1:1 supervision, psychological support and small group reflective practice spaces for practitioners, facilitators and people doing relational and emotionally demanding work.
Gather + Belong Programme: Creating peer support spaces where people feel less alone.
I empower individuals and organisations through training, tools and support to design and deliver peer support spaces that are trauma-informed, neuroinclusive and deeply human.
Consultancy + Collaboration: Bringing lived experience, psychological insights and big-picture thinking together to influence systems.
I work with organisations across healthcare, education, wellness and community settings through consultancy, facilitation, programme and framework design, training, advisory work and creative collaboration.
Writing + Creative Work: Stories about what it means to be human.
Books, podcasts, artwork, conversations and creative work exploring identity, loss, healing, neurodivergence, relationship, nature, embodiment and belonging.
My Approach
Whether I'm writing a book, producing a podcast, sitting alongside a practitioner, facilitating a reflective space or working in collaboration with an organisation, I'm interested in the same thing: how we create the conditions for people to feel heard, held and able to belong.
Across my work, I take an integrative and grounded approach that is trauma-informed, experience-sensitive, strengths and compassion-focused, person-centred and neuroinclusive. I value difference, curiosity and the knowledge and wisdom we carry through lived experience.
I'm also a visual, big-picture thinker with a deeply creative mind - able to see connections, patterns and possibilities, and bring together ideas that might otherwise sit apart.
My Qualifications
I have a degree and MSc in Psychology, a Diploma in Effective Psychotherapy, along with a PGCert in Leadership.
And I'm a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
I have been licensed to practise with the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (NCIP) since 2015 and was awarded a Fellow in 2019 for outstanding commitment to my profession.
