About Me

• I started teaching MBCT in 2014. I am also trained in Finding Peace (MBCT-FP) and Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L). I specialise in the Finding Peace curriculum in higher education, in the workplace, and 1:1, with particular interest in trauma-sensitive mindfulness and mindfulness for pain, chronic illness and burnout.
• Since 2019, I have been the Mindfulness Chaplain at the University of Edinburgh, where I teach courses, workshops, drop-ins and retreats for students, staff and the general public. I design and deliver additional mindfulness-inflected pastoral care projects, and collaborate with colleagues across the UoE in curriculum creation, such as the Massive Open Online Course Self-Care and Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Health and Social Care.
• I have periodic availability in private practice, online (UK and Europe) and in person (Edinburgh and the Lothians) - contact me.
• I hold a DPhil (PhD) in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where my research focused on embodiment, ethics, and pedagogy in mindfulness-based approaches.

• Selected writing and publications

1. Of Mutual Things: Observations in Four Parts, Main Point Books, January 2026. 
2. Self-Care and Wellbeing in the Face of COVID-19: Multidisciplinary perspectives and interprofessional experiences. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, April 2023. (first author)
3. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness for Students: an overview. BACP Journal of University and College Counselling, November 2022.
4. No Time Like the Present: Mindfulness, temporality and the therapeutics of kairos. Anthropology Today, April 2022.
5. A Trauma-Sensitive Approach to Teaching and Learning. Times Higher Education, March 2022.