A little of my story…

My path of reverence for the soma began simply because my own body demanded to be heard.

Long before I had the language for somatic architecture, my body lived in a state of high-sensory translation, navigating the fizzing currents of neurodivergence and migratory inflammatory pains. For a long time, I carried these physical flaring states with a lingering shame. What I understand now is that none of it was brokenness, it was a profound, instinctual intelligence. My nervous system was doing exactly what beautiful, living systems do when they encounter volatile landscapes. I had adapted to survive the history, ruptures and grief my body had been asked to carry.

For years, I tried to resolve this internal weather by treating my life as a riddle to be solved from the neck up. I sat with kind therapists and collected brilliant insights, gathering language and frameworks to describe my patterns while my physical tissue remained entirely stuck in the old loops.

Then a friend invited me to a yoga class. I went because she asked, but I kept returning because it felt good. I began following threads wove movement with grief, nervous system science with spirit – places and practices where bodies aren't expected to be perfect, compliant or impressive, just real.

To hold space for this integration, I first studied Mind-Body Coaching and then deepened into Somatic Stress Release™ and Integrative Somatic Parts Work, modalities that meet the body in its own vocabulary and bridge physiological science with the effervescent current of spirit. From my home on Whadjuk Noongar Country, I sit (and sway, shake, wriggle, jump and heel-drop) with people from all walks of life, not as an expert who has bypassed the friction of being alive, but as a steady companion on the path.

When we work together, we are not looking to fix a flaw or force compliance. We are simply creating the relational safety your nervous system requires to drop its heavy, protective shapes—allowing you to land in your own timing, trust your pace, and learn to befriend your body. It’s the longest relationship you will ever have.

Training & Credentials

Mind-Body Coaching – The Embody Lab
A gentle, body-attuned approach to decision-making, helping you align your actions with what feels true and sustainable for your nervous system.

Somatic Stress Release™ – Dr Scott Lyons
A trauma-informed practice that works with your body’s natural rhythm to release stress, restore balance, and expand your capacity to respond to life with steadiness.

Integrative Somatic Parts Work – Fran Booth
An embodied approach to understanding the many aspects of self, blending somatic awareness with Internal Family Systems principles to bring safety, insight, and integration to the parts of you shaped by life.

Functional Flow Yoga & Meditation – Spanda School
A way of moving and meditating that values curiosity and presence over performance, helping you reconnect to your body and its intelligence.

Facilitation Skills & Program Design – Mike Dyson
Training in creating spaces where learning is responsive, inclusive, and participant-led, cultivating connection and presence in groups.

Brene Brown Dare to Lead™ – This Working Life
Exploring courage, vulnerability, and values-aligned leadership as tools for authenticity and integrity in action.

Mental Health First Aid – St John WA
Equipping me to notice and respond to signs of mental health challenges, ensuring that safety and care are always present in the work I offer.

Living Lineage

Somatic practice lives inside a much longer human story and has been shaped by Indigenous knowledge systems, land-based ways of knowing and ancestral practices of listening, sensing, orienting and responding through the body. Long before neuroscience named the nervous system, bodies already knew how to regulate, grieve together, move with seasons and attune to place and one another. I hold this work with deep respect for those living lineages.

Access & Inclusion

My work is for all bodies, no matter their histories or stage of life. If cost is the only barrier to accessing sessions, I hold a small number of reduced-rate spaces each month. Please be in touch, and we'll find a way to practice together.