About Me

I have been helping clients for many years with a wide range of emotional health issues; including stress, depression and coping with chronic long-term conditions. I worked as a cognitive behavioural therapist (CBT) within Gloucestershire NHS for a decade, helping individuals as well as regularly running group courses for mindfulness, stress, and depression. Prior to that I managed and developed people in industry, in a career spanning two decades in human resources management across the UK and the Netherlands.
In 2019 I left the NHS to move to the USA, with my husband, until the pandemic changed plans. This moment gave me an opportunity to retrain as a Breathworks mindfulness teacher. I gained accreditation in 2021.
I am now an independent, accredited teacher. My passion is to help individuals improve the quality of their physical and emotional wellbeing and ultimately to gain more happiness and peace.
I run the 8 week Breathworks mindfulness for Stress and Mindfulness for Health courses, as well as shorter mindfulness courses. I love running group classes, as the energy and insights from the group helps everyone. I run face to face courses as well as on-line to the general public and organisations sponsoring my input, eg primary care NHS staff. I also regularly run drop in mindfulness classes for several local charities, which have proved popular and easier for clients with busy schedules or who are unable to attend consistently.
My personal values are: action; kindness; positivity; compassion; genuineness; openness and acceptance.