I help women awaken the raw and real to take real-world action towards their dreams.

I’m a Somatic Anthropologist – a somatic practitioner and an anthropologist. I’m a trauma-informed and polyvagal-informed coach, trained in nervous system regulation and embodiment practices, reiki, and psychedelic integration and ethics, with an MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UCL, earned for ethnographic research into Ayahuasca tourism, in the Ecuadorian Andes, and studies surrounding ritual, cosmologies, personhood and shamanism. I support women as a practitioner 1:1 and in group settings.

I’ve worked as a writer, editor and content strategist for the past decade, starting my path in journalism – covering wellness retreats, culture and travel – and working up to Head of Content for tech startups within travel. I continue to work in these spaces, while also bringing these skills forward to support other conscious business owners. I’m an artist, a lover and a wandering woman, centered in my commitment to creativity, beauty and expression.

My story β† 

I know disconnection. I know dissociation. I know coping mechanisms.

For years, I lived in high-functioning burnout β€” working in London, leading remote content teams and networks of writers for startups, earning my Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology β€” all while ignoring my own needs. I know the strain of digital overload, the restless sense of β€œnot doing enough” when you’re already far beyond your capacity. Alcohol was a constant in my twenties, a cornerstone of British culture.

Anthropology led me deep into the study of cosmologies, purity, ritual, and shamanism. I jumped into higher-consciousness work without the grounding to hold it β€” sitting with plant medicines including Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Psilocybin. For my MSc research, I spent two months living in an Ayahuasca retreat center in the Ecuadorian Andes. The journeys were powerful, but they also left me overwhelmed and untethered, aware of how easily altered states can blur into disconnection.

I know rupture: endings, identity shifts, career changes, and relocations that uproot you entirely. I went from the familiar routine of England to living on a remote island in Panama β€” an island within an archipelago β€” by way of the GalΓ‘pagos, where I spent two months writing my dissertation after leaving an emotionally turbulent relationship. I have jumped from one relationship to the next, often feeling like a failure if I wasn’t in one, not yet knowing what I truly needed or what healthy love could be. My body spoke to me again and again, but for years I didn’t understand its language β€” only that I felt there was something endlessly β€œwrong” with me.

My body image struggles trace back to my teens. I can remember being 18 in Australia, making excuses not to swim in the ocean because of my body dysmorphia. It stole from experiences I’ll never get back. For much of my twenties, I tried to manage my body like a problem to solve rather than inhabiting it as my home.

It has been ongoing, tender work to accept myself fully β€” to meet my patterns without shame, to integrate all my parts. I’ve had to get radically honest about my coping mechanisms: overworking, overthinking, substance use, compulsive doing to avoid what was alive inside. My healing has been rooted in working with somatic practitioners and guides β€” learning the language of my body and building the capacity to stay with myself, no matter what arises.

I believe this work is lifelong. I believe the body is our greatest resource, alongside nature and community. I believe there is liberation on the other side of feeling and processing β€” of giving voice to what has been held silent.

Today, I live location-independent, roaming the world, single, wild, and free. I teach from lived experience, lead from the heart, and support other women in making their own mind-body magic. I allow my transformation to speak for itself. And I help other untamed dreamers stay rooted in their bodies while stretching toward their biggest, wildest visions β€” because I know what it’s like to lose a dream, and what it takes to claim it back.

I believe in a perpetual state of becoming, while also embracing our being qualities. What has my path of self-discovery looked like?

❁ Certifying as a mind-body somatic coach and becoming polyvagal-informed, learning to meet and regulate panic, anxiety, process my emotions fully and re-embody after years of dissociation

❁ Conducting ethnographic research at an Ayahuasca lodge in Ecuador for my MSc in social and cultural anthropology, and spending two months writing from the GalÑpagos

❁ Learning how to support others in preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences, including Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Psilocybin

❁ Leaving my life in London – choosing the jungles and beaches of Latin America, finding community in Panama and becoming nomadic

❁ Living on a remote island of 200 people in Panama for 6 months where I processed a lifetime of stagnant emotions and confronted behavioral patterns

❁ Experiencing hours of coaching and therapy to support my embodiment, vision and clarity & to step into my role as a guide

❁ Becoming aware of the anxious attachment style driving my life, soothing that part of me that feels frightened of being abandoned

❁ Allowing myself to experience and receive meaningful connections, widening my network of friends globally - learning that the right people come and stay

My trainings & education

  • I earned my Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology at UCL, conducting ethnographic research into Ayahuasca tourism and neoshamanism in the Ecuadorian andes. During this time, I lived at an Ayahuasca and San Pedro retreat centre, volunteering and participating in ceremonies. I completed modules in psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, and the anthropology of religion, plus I audited a module in the history of madness and its cross-cultural perceptions. I wrote papers on cross-cultural understandings of the self, individual and personhood, liminal space and meaning-making within neoshamanism experiences, drawing on rich ethnographies. I bring boundless curiosity and an understanding of cultural differences to my coaching.

  • I trained to become a certified mind-body coach with The Embody Lab, with teachers including somatic experts Dr. Scott Lyons, Staci Haines and Manuela Mischke-Reeds. Spanning months of study, I gained intellectual and embodied understandings of interoception, neuroception, proprioception and exteroception. I’ve studied embodied introjections and reflections, mapping our body stories, embodied conflict resolution, integrating tensions, conditioned tendencies, working with boundaries and requests, embodying complexity, resisting norms and more. I learned to facilitate a cycle of change through the framework of awareness > feeling > expressing > embodied insight > action, and I came away with a toolkit of somatic practices that I use in my coaching practice.

  • I learned nervous system regulation – including how to shift out of stress responses and into states of engagement, resilience and creativity – with Dr. Stephen Porges and Michael Allison. I studied Allison’s model of The Play Zone, a blended state of safety and mobilisation; of being engaged and metabolically active with our minds and body but not from an underlying place of threat. The Play Zone is grounded in joy, exuberance and deep focus, while the body and mind are aligned, connected to our passions, to others and the world. I refer to this model with clients. We practice tracking, managing and mastering our bodily state – shifting through the performance hierarchy with awareness and efficiency. 

  • I’ve studied psychedelic facilitation, integration and ethics with the likes of Simone Weit of Zendo Project, Adam Aronovich and Licia Sky of the Trauma Research Foundation. Modules included intercultural competency and epistemic humility, trauma and psychedelics, how Zendo harm reduction principles inform psychedelic facilitation and the role of community in psychedelic facilitation. I took a particular interest in learning about an embodied approach to the psychedelic healing journey, and the importance of establishing a relationship with oneself and increasing bodily awareness as a first step towards navigating and transforming trauma. Somatic practices are hugely supportive in the process of psychedelic preparation and integration.

  • Through light touch or working remotely, I support your system in releasing tension, clearing energetic blocks and restoring a natural sense of flow with Reiki. I trained in Reiki because I found it offered me deep grounding, presence and calm in my life. Reiki works on physical, emotional and energetic levels – helping to clear stagnation, reduce stress and deepen somatic awareness. I am certified in Reiki Levels 1 and 2, trained by Megan Hayes, a Salt Lake City-based Reiki Master. My approach weaves Reiki into my broader somatic work, offering a deeply integrative experience that supports nervous system regulation, trauma release and embodied insight.