I’ve always been fascinated by how human beings become more fully present, to themselves and to others.
Through language and voice, stories and ideas. Across cultures, disciplines and different ways of seeing the world. And through the relationship between our inner lives and how we choose to live, communicate and act.
After studying Drama and Spanish, I moved to California, where I studied linguistics, taught academic writing and worked as a translator supporting Spanish-speaking women accessing healthcare. These experiences deepened my interest in language, communication and the ways we build understanding across differences.
Returning to the UK, I spent a few years working professionally as an actor before undertaking postgraduate training in voice studies. The experience of bringing words from the page to life, connecting voice, body and imagination, and communicating with an audience continues to inform my work today.
For more than thirty years I have worked as a voice coach with professional actors, broadcasters and speakers in theatre, film, television and radio, while also developing a deeper interest in human development, leadership and what helps people flourish.
This eventually led me towards psychosynthesis psychotherapy training, coaching and facilitation. Psychosynthesis is concerned with integration: helping people bring different aspects of themselves into conversation so that what they believe, feel and value can be more fully reflected in how they live, work and relate.
Living and working in Nigeria, Spain, the United States and the UK has shaped my interest in identity, belonging and life between cultures.
Today I work with leaders, professionals, actors, creatives and people in transition, drawing on more than four decades of experience spanning languages, education, theatre, voice, psychosynthesis, coaching and facilitation.
I am also a poet, writer and lifelong lover of literature, art and imagination.
Whether I am working with an actor, a leader or someone at a crossroads in life, I am interested in the same question:
How do we bring what we know inwardly into how we live, speak and meet the world?
How do we bring what we know inwardly into how we live, speak and meet the world?
Qualifications & Professional Background
- EMCC Accredited Senior Practitioner
- Certificate in Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching
- MA Psychosynthesis Psychology
- PG Cert Psychosynthesis Therapeutic Counselling
- Certificate in Practice-Based Learning
- PG Dip Voice Studies
- BA (Hons) Drama and Spanish
- Postgraduate studies, Linguistics, San Diego State University
