Where did you complete your training (or where are you still in training)?
I trained with Breathing Space to become a breathwork coach and facilitator. I’m now exploring further development.
What do you enjoy about breathwork and how has it helped you?
I came to breathwork by happy accident, and it quickly became something I now use in every part of my life — personally, creatively, and in my professional work. I work with conscious and functional breathwork, integrating these approaches into my long‑standing coaching practice. I’ve been an organisational and private coach for over fifteen years, working with people navigating high‑challenge roles and periods of pressure or change. Breathwork has become a practical way of helping clients regulate, reset, and access more clarity.
My own practice has also expanded my creativity. I write and perform poetry, and breathwork has strengthened my singing, performance confidence, and presence on stage. I’m committed to continuing to develop my craft and I’m particularly interested in both the physiology of breathwork and its real-world application, as well as bringing sound and creative writing to breathwork sessions.
Are you trained in any other modalities?
I’ve completed extensive training in coaching with a range of providers over more than fifteen years, most recently with Tuff Leadership in Sweden. I’m also an accredited Strengths Profile practitioner and hold an NLP certification. Alongside this, I have nearly thirty years of experience in 1:1 work with vulnerable adults and those in complex and high‑challenge situations.
I studied vocal performance at Higher Education level, with a focus on breath and diaphragmatic technique. This aligns beautifully with my breathwork training and informs the foundations of my current, developing practice.
How do they integrate with breathwork?
My coaching background, strengths‑based work, and long experience supporting people in high‑challenge situations all integrate naturally with breathwork. The practical tools I use in coaching of reflection, regulation, challenge, clarity, and behavioural change, are often complimented and strengthened by breathwork, giving clients a reliable and practical way to regulate themselves, develop more self-compassion and clarity.
My coaching background, strengths‑based work and long experience supporting people in high‑challenge situations all integrate naturally with breathwork. The practical tools I use in coaching, such as reflection, regulation, challenge, clarity and behavioural change, are often complemented and strengthened by breathwork. It gives clients a reliable and practical way to regulate themselves, develop more self‑compassion and access greater clarity.
My training in vocal performance also aligns closely with breathwork. Years of working with breath mechanics and diaphragmatic control inform how I guide clients to work with their own breath. Across all my work, breathwork acts as a foundation that supports people to regulate, express and create space within themselves to explore, challenge and nurture.
What is your personal journey?
My personal journey…gosh, that’s an autobiography in my head. As a teenager, I remember leaving home one day with the clear intention of ending my life. I was battling many things that I’ll not share here but, the battle endured in my head for some years. In my early twenties I walked into the A&E at my local hospital with the same suicidal ideation and sat for some time with a wonderful lady who was the duty psychiatrist. She gave me the space to be vulnerable, to verbally rage at the world, to swear like a trooper (as they used to say) and most importantly, to reflect and observe what I was thinking. I left that same afternoon with absolute clarity that I wasn’t go to end my life, and that I had ‘work to do’. ‘Work to do’ was two-fold…work on behalf of me, and that quickly developed into work on behalf of others’. The others were people with whom I identified; vulnerable people experiencing some challenge, usually as a result of their mental health.
Over a relatively short period of time, after volunteering in my community and then immersing myself in all sorts of Post-grad and adult education courses (not bad for a kid who went from GCSE’s straight into work), I steadily built a career of working in service of others, from advice work in Higher Education, to arts charity projects, adult social care, homelessness, asylum seekers and for the past 18 years, a nursing Trade Union where I work as a Welfare Adviser.
Alongside my substantive role, I work as an organisational coach and offer coaching privately (generalist, not organisational).
Somewhere along this journey (around 20 years ago), I decided I needed to balance the ‘going the extra mile’ with ‘what brings me joy’ outside of work so I went ‘back to school’ and completed a higher education course in Modern Music, focusing on vocal performance. I’d always sung as a child so this was me finding my voice again and, was simply the best medicine for a long time. I performed as a singer for a while, solo and with a band, and now sing in a soul and gospel choir. I’ve also recently started writing again, poetry mostly, and am venturing out into the world of spoken word with a desire to blend singing and poetry in one performance. Look out world.
And here we are…I found breathwork which has been the one thing in all these years which truly feels like it is for me, as much as it can be through me on behalf of others.
What do you stand for, and what do you stand against?
I stand for love, community, equanimity, education, compassion, self‑compassion, creative expression and the importance of being uniquely myself. These values underpin the way I work, the way I relate to others and the way I approach breathwork and creativity.
What is your greatest wish for your clients
My greatest wish for my clients is that they feel empowered, have autonomy and experience being fully seen and heard. I hope breathwork offers them a simple way to give themselves kindness, spaciousness, clarity and care that they can return to whenever they need it
My Bio
My breathwork practice is trauma‑aware, embodied and rooted in presence. I offer both breathwork coaching and guided facilitation, depending on what each person needs.
Breathwork has also reshaped my own life, opening the door to better relationships, more purpose and creative writing and poetry.
