As a writer and a musician, words and sounds are at the heart of who I am. In the early part of my life, I was equally passionate about learning new languages, singing songs from different eras, traditions and genres, and playing my clarinet. 

Following a prolonged recovery from glandular fever in my 20s, I began exploring holistic approaches to health and spent a year studying homeopathy. This led to collaborations with different practitioners to produce to a series of self-help books in the field of health and wellbeing.

I was drawn back into music around the same time and began to understand the healing power of sound while working with Mary Masselos, a professional violinist turned music therapist whose sessions combined ‘talking’ therapy with musical improvisation.

I have been facilitating therapeutic music sessions since 2013. For some years, I ran singing groups for people with dementia and saw how sound, song and movement stimulated cognitive function and created connection and joy where there was growing isolation.

That led me to embark on the Sound Healing with the Voice training at the College of Sound Healing in 2022. I learned to work with a range of vocal sound healing techniques and both witnessed and experienced for myself the potential for positive change created by healing frequencies and silence.