After a fairly mainstream career in London, I had everything society said I should want. But one morning on my commute, I looked around at everyone on the train and wondered: what are we all doing? Five days a week, year after year, the same journey, living for weekends and holidays. Something felt fundamentally off – not just for me, but about how we’re all living. We seem so disconnected from ourselves and caught in patterns of work and consumption that nobody really questions.

I had a strong sense there was more to all of this, though I didn’t quite know what that meant. So I started exploring. Spirituality didn’t seem to hold many answers for me. Neither did religion, traditional therapy or life coaching. I read extensively and became deeply curious about my own patterns: where did my beliefs actually come from? Why did I react the way I did? What was driving my choices?  I was surprised to discover how much of what I thought was “me” was just absorbed conditioning. 

During this period I trained as an RTT Hypnotherapist with Marisa Peer. The work was interesting –  find the limiting belief, reframe it and therefore help clients function better. And it did work to a degree, but it felt incomplete. I also kept bumping up against a deeper question: if so much of our mind is externally conditioned, who actually is “me”?  The more I looked, the less solid any of it seemed. What I thought was “me” was mostly just patterns – some helpful, some not, but none of them fundamental truth.  That’s when things can get interesting….

A Different Approach

I’ve spent years studying psychology, neuroscience, somatic therapies, the mind-body connection, trauma and various approaches to understanding the ‘human experience’. One of the clearest insights was that if you stay focused purely on the mind and try to understand it, fix it, improve it, you can spend decades spinning without actually shifting anything fundamental.

Real change happens differently and it’s really very simple.

If you’re interested and want to know more, book a free 20-minute phone or video call with me. Due to the nature of the work, it’s important we are both comfortable working with each other, so this short initial session is also a good way to find out.