About me

I have been working as a music therapist since 2008, with my main focus on attachment and early/developmental trauma. In my earlier years as a therapist much of my work was within NHS services for adults with complex mental health issues and learning disabilities, primarily within in-patient or secure settings. I have worked for over a decade in after adoption support with adopted children and their families. 

I combine the psychodynamic and creative approaches of my music therapy training with neurobiological approaches to trauma.

I have had a professional and personal interest in somatic processes since early in my music therapy training, and my own therapeutic process as a client of Dance Movement Psychotherapy and my continuing study of the Discipline of Authentic Movement have deeply informed my practice as a therapist, leading me to train as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

I am currently on the practitioner training programme for NeuroAffective Touch, having achieved the foundation year certification. I can bring elements of this training into the therapy work as appropriate, for example when we anre focusing specifically on early trauma, and if this is welcome for the client. For further information please see neuroaffectivetouch.com .

My professional qualifications include:

MSc Music Therapy (Queen Margaret University, 2008)

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training (2023)

Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Approaches (University of Edinburgh, 2003)

Human Dynamics in Work Settings (University of Edinburgh Modular Masters Scheme, 2003)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level One (2012)

Cross-Professional Certificate in Creative Supervision and Reflective Practice (IPSRP 2017)

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level One (2019), Level Two (2025)

Foundation year certificate: NeuroAffective Touch (2025)

I am a musician and writer and maintain regular creative practices, personal development and collaborations with artists of different modalities.

I receive regular supervision for my work from qualified professionals. I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (reg no. AS13392) and a member of the British Association for Music Therapy and Somatic Experiencing Association UK.