I have had the privilege of working with people from all over the world in individual therapy, workshops and in meditation & therapeutic retreats over the last 30+ years. I have been based in Australia for a lot of my adult life and have lived and worked in Chile, India, Italy, Scandinavia and now live in Devon in the U.K.
Back in the late 80’s, as soon as I had finished ‘A’ Levels, I travelled to India. As long as I can remember, I had felt that there was so much more to life than I had been exposed to but hadn’t known where to find it. I travelled through the North of India and was drawn to Buddhist temples and communities including the Osho Ashram in Poona where I learned meditation and participated in all kinds of workshops and therapy trainings. I also studied and practiced Breath therapy and Craniosacral Therapy and from that time meditation and personal development became the central focus of my life.
I continued to visit India every year for the next 30 years and was able to immerse myself in therapy groups, trainings and meditation practices. In the 90’s I was part of a small group of colleagues who co-created a therapeutic process called The Path of Love in which I was a senior facilitator for 15 years. It was an intensely rich time of traveling around the world as a team, making this wonderful process available on several continents.
Concurrently over that time, I attended personal and professional therapeutic trainings around the world – approaches that include Somatic Psychotherapy, Trauma Healing(Somatic Experiencing® and EMDR), Relational Gestalt Therapy, Tibetan Buddhist practices, Mindfulness and Meditation, Addiction Counselling, Group Therapy, Family therapy & Family Constellation and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, the Diamond Logos Teachings and the Hoffman Process.
In 1996, I met Faisal Muqaddam who is the founder of The Diamond Logos Teaching- it’s a comprehensive map and methodology to retrieve connection to one’s essential self. I was asked to organise the retreats which, over the next few years, rapidly grew into four large groups that met annually in Italy. This gave me the unique opportunity to be close to Faisal as my mentor and friend while I offered individual sessions during the retreats to the participants and had the fortune to be present in all of the retreats in Italy over the next 10 years.
In 2008, after all of the ‘alternative’ trainings, I returned to Australia to formally study psychotherapy. After completing a degree at the Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney I felt the need to return to my homeland and process some of my personal family story that I thought I had managed to escape from but was still not resolved. This was a time of healing and reconnecting with my roots, and while I was in the U.K I worked as an Addiction therapist at The Priory Hospital in London where I learned so much about the disease of addiction and the tools to recovery.
Back in Australia in 2012, I trained to be a facilitator of The Hoffman Process Australia. I worked with the team in Australia as a supervisor and senior facilitator for 10 year until recently when I returned to the U.K to live and to join the U.K team.
I so appreciate having the fortune to work in the field of healing and transformation. I experience it an honour to accompany people to discover the depth and wonder of their true nature. My own self-inquiry and evolution of consciousness have been a life-long passion and I treasure the continued learning and deepening in my own understanding, meditation and awakening, while I accompany others.