My background has been primarily in the arts and writing, with a wide variety of roles including working as a dresser in the West End; a writer for many BBC Radio 4 dramas and adaptations, as well as many published and produced stage plays and stories. Alongside my coaching practice I am a workshop facilitator for the Royal Literary Fund, where I support people who are working their way through many different areas of recovery (i.e. bereavement, addiction, depression and anxiety).

Also for the RLF I have, for over a year, been facilitating a group of foster children on blog writing about their lived experiences of being in care, or around any subject they choose. My co-facilitator works for a provider of social care for young people. Together we nurture blogs towards publication on relevant websites. My coaching practice enhances every area of my personal and professional life, and with my therapy training I hope to broaden my client support and offer additional ways of working.

Existential coaching grew out of Existential Psychotherapy. The style is non-directive, that is I do not provide answers or solutions or tell the client what to do. Being present to the client, allowing you to explore your feelings and dilemmas and become more aware of the choices you have made and are making, may help you reassess your values and find your voice, ultimately allowing you to move forward. While this process may encourage past events to emerge, we will focus more on the here and now.

My clients are from varied and diverse backgrounds and ages, and this approach is co-creative, so we work together to find the best way forward for the client. Accepting the person you are and the life you are currently living instead of hoping to be someone you can never be, opens up possibilities, so that you can begin to develop and grow. Self-acceptance and awareness are key to moving forward. We all experience transitions in our lives, we can all get stuck, but being stuck is a good place to start breaking patterns and looking ahead.

Creative Mentorship is very much about what I can offer from my past experience as a writer. I have worked as a creative mentor for many people at different stages in their creativity. Those who are stuck with their creativity, mid-way in a piece of work, not yet started or who want support while they create, have benefited from one to one sessions.