About this website

⚠️ Content on this page covers topics including suicide and domestic abuse. 

Thank you for visiting my website. 

I am a qualified counsellor, well-being trainer and author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal. I started my therapeutic career more than two decades ago, working with the bereaved.

Today, my focus is helping proactive organisations who want to help people, as I call it, find their ‘mojo’ and get their sparkle back. My special interest is wellness, particularly dreams and sleep, and my media appearances include BBC radio and ITV’s ‘Loose Women’. I am also the creator of a weekly newsletter called Monday Mojo™, which has been sent to inboxes each week since 2017.

Training delivery covers topics such as understanding mental health as well as bereavement awareness. Audiences have included police officers, paramedics and search & rescue teams.

Professional Career 

I started my therapeutic career in 2002, where I supported those bereaved by murder and suicide, including attending inquests at coroner’s court. I have also worked across the private, public and third sectors including in a FTSE100 company, a national charity and in the NHS, in management and leadership roles.

Peer Support

In 2004, I established a unique website and ran peer support group for two years dedicated to Pregnancy Mental Health, following my own experiences. As a result, I featured in several popular magazines on this topic, including Pregnancy and Birth and Natural Health magazines, and featured on radio programmes like Radio 4’s Women’s Hour. (You can see a full list of tv and media appearances below).

Later, I led a peer mentoring service for three years with a well-known mental health charity, offering relevant training to volunteers and helping establish the goals of those using the service.

During the pandemic I also ran a bereavement peer support group for grieving people and set up A Grief Note™ on Twitter.

Charity Work

I have volunteered for a number of organisations, including those who support grieving people. This includes being available for a local emergency response team, providing emotional support as needed in the event of a major incident.

In recent years, I have volunteered my time in an independent capacity supporting policing with discussions to help end misogyny and male violence against women, informed by conversations with those bereaved by murder and/or suicide as a result of domestic abuse. The national domestic abuse helpline in the U.K. is 0808 2000 247.

In my spare time I work for a charity that provides an award winning transport service for patients with cancer travelling to hospital for their treatment.

Spiritual Coaching

I grew up in an environment where we talked about dreams around the breakfast table, so it’s been natural for me to work with dreams in my professional life. In the same way, I’m also authentically trained in Mindfulness, which has included much of the Buddhist philosophy which helps people be more present and navigate the difficulties they face. Some of my work has also involved discussions around purpose and meaning, especially following a life changing event. I these skills to provide spiritual coaching.

Qualifications and Training

My qualifications are in Therapeutic Counselling, Delivering Adult Learning and Management and Leadership. I am also a Mental Health First Aider and authentically trained in Mindfulness. I ensure I engage with continuing professional development throughout the year, so that the learning I provide remains up to date.

I trained with the National Homicide Service, Victim Support, and Women’s Aid amongst others. I am accredited to work with victims of crime, including those escaping domestic abuse.

TV and Media Appearances

I have enjoyed many TV and media appearances talking about the subjects I am passionate about, including dreams and healthy sleep. You can view an expanded list of media appearances below:

Radio:

BBC Radio: BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, BBC WM, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Coventry, BBC Three Counties, BBC Radio 6 with George Lamb, BBC Suffolk Breakfast Show, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drive Time, BBC Radio Leeds Drive Time, BBC Tees, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, BBC London with Sunny & Shay and on the Eddie Nestor show, Talk Sport, Beacon Radio, Hallam FM, Original 106 FM, Gemini FM, WLR FM, XFM, The Psychic Show (LBC 97.3), My Spirit Radio, Bridge Radio, Red FM, Talk Radio.

Television:

Loose Women, ITV’s This Morning, DayBreak (Presenter of The Guide to Sleep), GMTV, The Wright Stuff, LK Today (Lorraine), Consultant to SO Television for My Lovely Audience (Graham Norton), Psychic TV and RSVP online

Featured work

Natural Health, In Style Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Daily Express, Practical Parenting & Pregnancy Magazine, Soul & Spirit magazine, Huffington Post, Guardian (G2), Sunday Express, Pregnancy, Baby & You, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Pregnancy & Birth magazine, Prima Baby magazine, Practical Parenting, Columnist for Spirit & Destiny Magazine, Contributor to Talk Mum, Contributor to Silent Voices, Columnist for Spirit Force Magazine, Mens Health magazine

Book(s)

I am the author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal. The book aims to join the dots between our sleep, dreams and our mental health, specifically how grief shows up even if no one has died. It explores some of the big myths of sleep, offers a Sleep Cycle Repair Kit and some tips on how to decode your own dreams.

I am currently working on a second book.

PR Events

Dreams Bed Company, Maybelline New York, Sky + HD (article featured in Daily Telegraph), Johnson’s Beauty: Dreamy Skin, Snow Leopard Trust

Awards

• Volunteer of the Year Cohesion Award for services to the community;
• Nomination: “Women Who Keep Bedfordshire Safer”;
• Regional Finalist for the Health and Social Care Awards for Mental Health and Wellbeing;
• Spiritual Connextions Awards for Best Service to Others

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Monday Mojo™ is my weekly newsletter designed to help you find your Mojo and get your sparkle back. You can subscribe here.