I discovered the HSP trait in 2012, and it changed everything for me. For the first time, I began to understand why I experienced the world the way I did — and how to organise my life around that sensitivity rather than fight it.

In 2024, at the age of 53, I was formally diagnosed as autistic. It was the missing piece I’d been reaching for — not a limitation, but a deeper truth. I believe self-knowledge can be profoundly empowering when it’s used not to label, but to liberate.

I’ve also lived with long-term physical and mental health challenges, and experienced addiction in my teens, twenties, and thirties. Recovery — especially through 12-step programs — changed my life. After years of darkness, survival, and self-abandonment, I found my way back to something sacred. I’ve now been clean and sober for over 15 years, and I’m devoted to helping others live a life shaped by joy, connection, and meaning — not shame and exhaustion.

I bring all of this — lived experience, deep study, and spiritual integration — into my work. I hold a BSc in Psychology and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and I spent over two decades as a social researcher specialising in education, health, employment, and access to justice. I also trained in nutritional therapy, which played a key role in my own healing. While I no longer practise as a therapist, that learning continues to inform how I care for myself — and how I support others.