About me

I began my career in 1995 as an Occupational Therapist and mental health clinician, and for more than thirty years have worked alongside people experiencing psychological distress across community mental health, inpatient services, addictions, youth mental health, rehabilitation, perinatal and infant mental health, and private practice.

Living in London for eleven years shaped both my professional and personal life. During this time I worked as a psychotherapist within the Centre for Psychological Therapies at King's College London, where I also undertook postgraduate study in dynamic psychotherapy, anthropology and the history of psychiatry, and later taught psychotherapy to university students. These experiences deepened my conviction that lasting change begins not with finding quick answers, but through making space for experiences that have never been fully thought about or understood.

After returning to Australia, I commenced training with the New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NSWIPP) and continue to be inspired by contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. In 2021, my writing was jointly awarded the Rozsika Parker Prize by the British Journal of Psychotherapy, recognising an essay exploring creativity, infant observation and the ways meaning emerges within the therapeutic relationship.

Alongside my psychoanalytic practice, I am an AHPRA-registered Occupational Therapist and an endorsed Mental Health Occupational Therapist under the Better Access initiative, enabling eligible clients to access Medicare rebates. My work today brings together decades of clinical experience with a psychoanalytic approach that values curiosity, careful listening and the belief that, given the right conditions, meaningful and enduring change is possible.

Memberships 

New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (NSWIPP) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia (PPAA) Medicare provider number: 5046772K
AHRPA: OCC0001720754
OTA: 9499809