For the past 25 years, my path has been anything but linear. I didn’t follow a system or stick to one traditionI followed what felt alive. If something sparked energy in me, I’d dive in, test it, and keep what worked. If it didn’t, I moved on.
My learning came through the body - through injury, illness, overtraining, stillness, recovery, and returning again and again to what felt true.
That’s shaped everything.
What I offer now isn’t a method or a model, it’s the result of staying close to what’s real. I use acupuncture not to fix, but to support the body’s natural intelligence. The treatment emerges from what’s here in the room, not from a protocol.
Over the years I’ve also built businesses, raised funding, coached teams, and led through conflict and change. I’ve learned just as much through those environments as I have in clinic. At home, I’ve lived through complexity - parenting four neurodivergent and chronically ill kids, supporting a partner with long-term autoimmune issues, and managing my own health challenges. It’s all part of the same work: listening, adapting, and not knowing.
And through it all, I’ve moved. Not just to train or recover, but to understand. Marathon running, open water swimming, mountain climbing, cycling, surfing - these all taught me how to meet pressure, stay responsive, and find rhythm. Softer movement - like yoga, qi gong, and breath - showed me how to listen from the inside out.
This isn’t a catalogue of qualifications. It’s what I’ve tested - what I kept returning to because it worked. These are the practices and approaches that shaped how I listen, treat, and hold space.
Health & Restoration
Supportive systems for when the body needs to rebuild.
Classical Chinese Acupuncture – seasonal, constitutional, and adaptable. Helped me understand health as movement through cycles, not a fixed state.
Acupressure, Gua Sha, moxa, bloodletting – traditional tools used with presence.
Shonishin – non-insertive needling that calms and regulates.
Tuning forks & sound – using vibration where words and touch don’t reach.
Supplementation & nutrition – focused, simple, and responsive to the moment. What nourishes depends on what the system is ready for.
Bodywork & Therapeutics
These methods sit closest to the acupuncture table - rooted in the body, the tissues, the moment. Subtle touch, classical tools, and somatic cues help restore regulation and flow.
Fascia release & structural integration – working with the body’s web and layers.
Sotai – easeful Japanese movement therapy restoring natural balance.Somatic bodywork – following the body’s signals moment by moment.
Breath, Nervous System and Physiology
Breath is central to everything - how we arrive, shift states, and return to balance. These methods continue to inform how I support the nervous system in and out of treatment.
Pranayama & yogic breathing – internal clarity through breath.
Wim Hof – strong reset and exposure adaptation.
Oxygen Advantage & Buteyko – practical, functional breathing for nervous system and energy regulation.
Maffetone – endurance training that respects physiology and recovery.
Movement & Embodiment
Movement helped me make sense of my own body. These practices showed me how to feel structure and flow - not as fitness, but as feedback.
Rope flow – coordinated breath and spirals through joints; nervous system rhythm through play.
Yoga – from soft to strong: yin, tibetan, hatha, vinyasa, prana kriya, ashtanga. Each style taught me when to yield and when to hold—bringing contrast, depth, and clarity to how I meet the body.
Qi Gong – internal energy awareness through slow, grounding movement.
Chi Running – running as lightness and form, not effort.
Barefoot Running – trust your feet, feel the earth.
Total Immersion – swimming techniques that taught me to move through water with rhythm, awareness, and relaxed control—training attention as much as technique.
Kettlebells, clubs and macebells – strength training with movement and coordination to activate muscle, bone and connective tissue.
Mind & Awareness
This is where symptom becomes message - where thinking gives way to sensing. These approaches helped me understand how the body stores experience, how to listen for what's underneath, and how to stay with it.
Meditation – Vedic, Zen, Taoist, and non-dual. Each one teaching stillness, space, and how not to grip.
Human Design – a lens for understanding energetic patterns and how people move through the world.
Reverse Therapy – mapping emotion to symptom and letting the body speak.
Somatic Experiencing – slow, safe resolution of trauma through sensation.
Focusing – tracking the felt sense and staying with the edge of awareness.
Coaching & dialogue – presence-based conversation for clarity and change.
Nervous system regulation & trauma work – understanding stress physiology and recovery.
None of it was intellectualised or planned. I just followed what had life - what lit me up, even if I didn’t know why at the time. I stuck with what held up in real life and let go of the rest. What I offer now is the result of all that: grounded, responsive, and shaped by experience, not theory.
