About

I am a Brighton-based writer, teacher, coach and creative workshop facilitator. I am working on a poetry collection entitled Recipes for Disaster which tells the story of a relationship through food and have written a short story Bone China, about trauma and healing.

Alongside writing, I offer workshops to promote creativity and personal development, including Artist’s Way and Creative Writing courses. I aim to ensure learning is embodied and engages different aspects of the self beyond the mind. In workshops, I may combine the use of images, movement and language. They are supported by psychological understanding.

I offer coaching to women seeking to make changes in their personal or work life, including leadership coaching, and working with creative blocks. I provide mentoring in study skills and writing and to teachers and therapists in their professional roles.

As a Veriditas trained Labyrinth facilitator, I facilitate walking meditations  – providing a reflective space for individuals and groups, a chance to calm the mind, bring order to thoughts and integrate insights and awareness.

For the last fourteen years I have been part of a group exploring the therapeutic power of working with nature, the arts and ritual in Powdermills, Battle.

Following careers as a primary and seconday schoolteacher, teaching and learning consultant for languages and psychotherapeutic counsellor, I started a part-time MA in Creative Writing at Brighton University in 2017.  I was delighted to be a prize winner in the 2015 Sussex Poets competition and member of the Writers’ Place Poets mentorship scheme February – July 2018. I am inspired by the sensuality of food and  my writing explores love, relationships, language, alchemy and how to remain compassionate in the face of violence.

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