I have travelled extensively since my twenties, studying therapeutic human movement and dance, and was offered a job in a Welsh disability charity, delivering therapeutic creative movement sessions to children and adults with autism and learning disabilities for over a decade. During this time, I undertook a four-year Master of Arts programme in Dance Movement Psychotherapy with Dance Voice at Canterbury Christ Church University, and in 2013, I graduated with an MA (DMP).

I worked for almost two years in a low-secure forensic unit with young adults with learning disabilities, after which I completed an advanced diploma in counselling supervision with Dr Kathy Raffles. Furthermore, I began supervising counsellors, social workers and carers working with autism and learning disabilities, as well as developmental traumas.; Developing embodied awareness to contain and inform their work.

After experiencing the transformative power of the body in movement and how all our experiences are held within and either digested and made sense of, or perhaps frozen in time as in trauma. How people with learning disabilities mask to be safe and then suffer from autistic burnout, fatigue and a loss of identity; I became curious and wanted to learn more about the human condition.

At the start of lockdown, I began rigorous training in Transactional Analysis (TA) with TACymru, an organisational member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the leading professional body for training and accrediting psychotherapists at Master’s level to work therapeutically with a wide range of emotional distress, mental health challenges and personal problems. This involved four years of in-depth, experiential, and practical training, followed by an additional two years of exam group and post-completion continuing development. I hold an Advanced Clinical Postgraduate Diploma (Level 7) in Psychotherapy (TA) and am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)