I started my career as an intensive care nurse and then went on to complete a public health degree, focusing on children and families. I studied child development, mental health, abuse, and safeguarding, and worked in various specialist nursing roles over the years. This gives me deep insight into how early experiences shape us – insight I draw on when supporting adults processing childhood trauma or relational wounding. In my nursing role, I was a child exploitation champion, providing training and raising awareness about abuse and safeguarding. I developed and delivered consent workshops in schools – a project I later presented at the University of Derby.

I’ve also worked in specialist trauma services, including as a trainee therapist at a psychological trauma centre and at a sexual violence charity, supporting survivors of sexual abuse and assault. I served as a trustee for a sexual violence organisation for six years and briefly worked as a forensic sexual offences nurse at a rape crisis centre. My psychotherapy dissertation explored meaning-making after rape and how this process can shape healing outcomes. I’ve spoken at Parliament with MPs about the urgent need for better sexual violence provision.

My nursing career eventually led me toward mental health work, and I retrained as a psychotherapist, spending several years working in both roles part-time. In 2020, I left nursing to run my online therapy practice full-time as a therapist for autistic and ADHD adults, and I’ve been lovingly doing this work ever since.