How I See The Human Experience
Human experience is never just psychological. It is biological, emotional, relational, developmental, cultural, and ecological, all interacting at once, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in tension.
My work sits at the intersection of all these layers.
It’s shaped by years of working with:
children and adolescents
adopted and care-experienced young people
families navigating trauma
adults facing anxiety, depression, burnout and
professionals and leaders carrying the weight of responsibility
It’s also shaped by my early life as an outdoor instructor and my academic grounding in geography, sensory perception, and the psychology of place, an understanding that environment shapes us just as much as experience does.
This integrated lens informs everything I do.
Whether I’m supporting an individual, a family, or a high-pressure team, the aim is the same: to help people feel more anchored in themselves, more regulated in their bodies, and more connected to the life they want to live.
The Four Pillars of My Work
These four pillars are the organising principles that run through everything I do, from therapy and EMDR, to leadership work, to retreats, to performance consulting. Together they reflect how humans actually function: biologically, relationally, psychologically, and ecologically.
1. Mind: Understanding the Machinery
Your mind is not a random collection of thoughts and feelings. It’s a highly adaptive survival system shaped by evolution, early experience, stress, and environment.
Anxiety, overthinking, emotional reactivity, trauma responses, burnout, they are survival system trying to protect you.
I help people:
understand their emotional and physiological responses
recognise survival patterns that once kept them safe
strengthen regulation, flexibility, and self-awareness
build a healthier relationship with their internal world
2. Connection: Because We Are Wired to Relate
Humans regulate through other humans. This is true in therapy rooms, families, relationships, teams, and leadership cultures.
When connection breaks down, we see:
anxiety - shame - conflict - disconnection - loneliness - relational patterns that repeat themselves
And when connection strengthens, people regain:
safety - perspective - confidence - emotional range - the capacity to think clearly under pressure
Whether I’m working with a teenager, a parent, a couple, or an executive team, connection is the context in which change becomes possible.
3. Nature: Remembering We Are Nature
We talk about nature as if it’s outside of us, but biologically speaking, we are nature.
Our stress systems, sensory systems, attention, and emotional rhythms were calibrated in environments of:
danger - tribe - movement - unpredictability balanced with rest
Modern environments - fast, artificial, densely stimulating - pull us away from what our nervous system expects.
My work works with nature as a regulating, grounding, sensory-informed environment that supports:
clearer thinking - emotional regulation - reduced stress - improved focus - deeper connection - access to parts of ourselves that are harder to reach indoors
Whether through walk-and-talk therapy, EcoSensory practice, or nature-based retreat work, I help individuals and teams reconnect with the natural world and rediscover their nature.
4. Purpose: The Thread That Steadies Us
Humans need purpose to function well. For:
direction - coherence - alignment - identity - meaning
When purpose blurs, people lose grounding. When it strengthens, they gain clarity in themselves and their choices.
I help individuals and leaders:
unpack what truly matters - understand how past experiences shaped their direction - align action with values - rebuild purpose after burnout or trauma - move forward with a renewed sense of agency and integrity
Purpose is not something you “find.” It’s something you build, through understanding and intentional living.