After a decade of multidisciplinary team experience in pain management and chronic illness hospital units, addiction, community health and university settings, in 2018 I founded Embody Being™. In this Health Psychology, Somatic Psychotherapy and Supervision practice, I entrust the emotional, somatic and relational wisdom of every individual, through Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Systems Theory, and Depth psychology frameworks.

In recent years, I have commenced clinical research as a Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapist in Australian and International trials. I am involved in several projects investigating psilocybin (including intravenous psilocin administration) at Swinburne University and MDMA for severe PTSD at Monash University/MAPS, having completed the MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training program in 2021. I continue to learn with several international PAP, trauma and somatic experts, including travelling to Brazil in 2025 to study with Dr Luis Eduardo Luna; Anthropologist, Author and the Director of Wasiwaska Research Centre. Since 2021, I have been a founding and continuing Co-Chair of the Australian Association of Psychologists Incorporated (AAPi) PAP Interest Group and have been an invited speaker at several multidisciplinary scientific conferences.

Building on my long-held interest in contemplation philosophies, I deeply respect the healing potential of expanded, experiential states of consciousness and most importantly, their reciprocal, ethical and useful integration. I am passionate about understanding potential somatic implications of psychedelic medicines, as well as the relational influence of the therapist/s on treatment outcomes – specifically how can the human nervous system: 1) mediate therapeutic opportunities within the heightened transference of expanded states, 2) optimise the dyadic relationship and 3) prevent therapist burnout.

Following my co-major in Psychology and Psychophysiology and a First Class Honours, I was awarded a full scholarship to complete my Doctorate of Psychology (Health), chosen because I am a strong advocate for clinical health psychology (specifically Women’s Health). My 2010 qualitative thesis investigated the psychology and ethics of Australian specialists’ practice of end-of-life care, death determination methods and organ donation. It was successfully examined by prominent, international organ donation experts. Some findings were published in the Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318765619