I am a registered Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia, as well as an art therapist and social worker. I hold a Master of Social Work from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy from La Trobe University, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney.

My professional experience spans therapeutic group work and individual counselling across disability services, adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health, addiction treatment, and eating disorder recovery. I have also taught Trauma-Informed Practice and Mental Health within the Bachelor of Social Work program at University of Wollongong, working with fourth-year students preparing for practice.​ 

Alongside educational roles, my clincial experience and training includes Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills training with Marsha Linehan; facilitation of DBT groups for adolescents within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Illawarra; faclitation of group art therapy programs for St John of God inpatient services for both psychoatric and substance detox programs in Victoria; training in Family-Based Treatment (FBT/Maudsley) for anorexia nervosa; and the facilitation of group recovery programs with The Butterfly Foundation.

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Over the years, this varied pathway has led me into both supportive and leadership roles across mental health, community health, higher education, the creative arts, communications, and international development. It has also fostered an enduring curiosity about the ways individual experience, relationships, culture and systems intersect, and how interdisciplinary approaches can deepen our understanding of healing, care and social change.

Alongside my creative and academic studies, I have remained an active student of several yoga traditions over the last two decades, while also facilitating yoga teacher trainings throughout Australia and internationally. Across this time, I have completed more than 1000 hours of formal teacher training and am qualified to teach hatha, Viniyoga, vinyasa flow, ZenThai flow, restorative and yin yoga.

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In 2013, I spent much of the year coordinating a nonprofit yoga studio in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, helping to raise funds for Krama Yoga NGO, which provided trauma-sensitive yoga programs for more than 300 at-risk Cambodian young people each month. Alongside this, I have undertaken both formal and informal studies in yoga therapy, ayurveda, mindfulness, trauma-aware yoga and yoga philosophy. Returning to Australia, I spent 2014-16 developing professional development programs, facilitate trainings, and sat on the national leadership committee of Off the Mat, Into the World. I am also a community partner of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.

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Yoga has been a profound influence in my own life and continues to shape the questions I bring to my work. My teaching, writing and advocacy are informed by an ongoing interest in the relationship between personal suffering and collective conditions, and by a commitment to exploring how contemplative traditions might contribute to more humane and socially responsive ways of living together.

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