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My Story

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I didn't arrive at this work through a textbook.

I arrived through a health crisis, a dark night of the soul, a diagnosis that reframed my entire life — and thirty years of quietly piecing together a different understanding of why we get stuck, why we suffer, and what it actually takes to change.

This is that story.

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The Beginning

I have always been drawn to the deeper layers of things. Spirituality, psychology, the mystery of the human body — these weren't hobbies for me, they were home.

I spent years as an endurance athlete, pouring myself into movement, into doing, into achieving. Looking back, I can see that was its own kind of running. From what, I wasn't quite sure yet.

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When Everything Stopped

In 2014, my body called time. It said "Enough!".

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What started as minor digestive issues quietly took hold. I became exhausted in a way I had never experienced — bone-deep tired, and yet unable to sleep. I stopped exercising. I became increasingly dispirited and, eventually, depressed.

My GP ran tests and found nothing. I was told I was fine. I knew I wasn't.

I spent a significant amount of time and money navigating the health maze — trying protocols for conditions I almost certainly didn't have, seeing practitioners who couldn't quite locate what was wrong. It was overwhelming. It was lonely. And it was, I now understand, exactly the journey I needed to take.

Eventually I received a cluster of diagnoses — leaky gut, thyroid and adrenal issues, depression — but more importantly, I began to ask different questions. Not just what was wrong with my body, but why. What had I been carrying? What had I been ignoring? What was my body actually trying to tell me?

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Finding a Different Way

I began to research food, herbs and the body's capacity to heal itself. I discovered that powerful change didn't require expensive interventions or complex protocols — it required listening. Really listening.

I enrolled in a naturopathic nutrition course, then the ION nutritional therapy programme, and became a registered nutritional therapist. I began sharing what I was learning with my clients, and something lit up in me that hadn't been there before.

Then I undertook a medical intuition training — and everything shifted again.

For the first time, I began to understand how my symptoms weren't just physical events. They were signals. They were my body's way of pointing me toward the deep-rooted patterns and buried beliefs that had quietly been running my life. When I started to listen at that level, things began to change in ways that no supplement or therapy had touched.

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The Diagnosis That Changed Everything

Around this time, I was diagnosed with autism.

It was, in many ways, a profound relief. Decades of feeling like I didn't quite fit, of working harder than everyone else seemed to need to, of experiencing the world at a different frequency — suddenly had a context. I wasn't broken. I had never been broken. I had simply been trying to live by a map that wasn't drawn for me.

I began to rewrite the stories I had been telling myself since childhood. I called upon my training in behavioural change and transpersonal psychology and applied it to myself — gently, curiously, with a compassion I had rarely extended inward before.

I became comfortable, for the first time, being me.

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Archetypal Alchemy Is Born

Out of all of this — the crisis, the searching, the diagnoses, the slow and sometimes painful piecing together of a new understanding — Archetypal Alchemy emerged.

It is the distillation of everything I have learned across thirty years of working in health: as a physiotherapist, nutritional therapist, somatic practitioner, medical intuitive and transpersonal coach. It is also, deeply and personally, the map I wish I had been given at the beginning of my own journey.

I created it so you don't have to spend decades finding your own way here.

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My Philosophy

My belief is that health and happiness are not things we have to strive endlessly to achieve. They can flow to us — when we stop fighting ourselves and start understanding ourselves.

I believe that lasting change happens not at the level of symptoms or behaviours, but at the level of the patterns and archetypes that quietly shape everything. When we shine a light on our shadows, when we bring what is hidden into view and the unconscious into the conscious, something fundamental shifts. The lead of pain begins to alchemise into gold.

I have the knowledge, the skills and the lived experience to walk alongside you in that process. Whatever brought you here — physical symptoms, repeating patterns, a sense that something needs to change — I am here to help you find your way back to yourself.

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Ready to find out more?

If you're drawn to working with me 1:1, explore my packages below. If you feel called to go deeper and train in this work yourself, the Archetypal Alchemy certification may be exactly what you're looking for.

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QUALIFICATIONS

BSc Physiotherapy · MSc Health Ergonomics · Certified Medical Intuitive Practitioner · Diploma Nutritional Therapy · Diploma Naturopathic Nutrition · Professional Certificate in Psychedelics, Altered States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology · Somatic EMDR Practitioner · Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator · Currently studying Integration Psychotherapy

Fully insured. Registered with the IACMT and IPHM.

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