Hello! I am the owner of The Healthful Mind Clinic & Wellbeing Centre, as well as being a therapist looking after my clients emotional health.
Back in May 2023 I was thrilled to be able to open our premises in West Moors, a dream come true for me. Read more below to find out more about how the therapies I now use took me from decades of being unable to work due to ill health, to where I am now.
It was back in 2011 that I first qualified as a professional life coach and counsellor, then shortly afterwards as a hypnotherapist, but this is not where my journey started.
My journey into experiencing the power our minds have over not just our emotional health, but our physical health too, started 3 years earlier:
It was after decades of chronic illness, pain and anxiety that I went into an NLP (neuro linguistic programming) evening class. On being asked what I wanted to get out of this, I replied: “I just want to be well enough to be here for the 2 hours a week.” Not a big ask you might think, but for me it felt almost like an impossibility.
Very quickly things began to change, I even started walking without my crutches for the first time in 6 years. It was not a miracle that had happened but more a light bulb moment.
My fear, pain and illness were linked, I was inadvertently feeding my own fears and own pain with a mind that was focussing on them and catastrophising what might happen next. I was literally programming my problems to be worse than they needed to be, and it was exhausting!
My health conditions still exist, but with my mind now firmly trained to be Healthful rather than Health Empty, I live and work a full life alongside my conditions.
I have since this time completed various other trainings including Mindfulness, IEMT – Integral Eye Movement Technique and more recently becoming a licensed facilitator of SSP – Safe and Sound Protocol, an integrated listening system that helps guide the nervous system into a place of safety.

This enables me to provide a very positive solution focussed approach that can address the many aspects of chronic pain, chronic illness, anxiety, stress and emotional trauma, as well as those living with ADHD and Autism, and the effects it can have on a person’s life, and on those around them.
Alongside my one to one client work, I run a group and online course entitled The Healthful Mind Programme, a step by step approach to creating an internal environment where you can thrive rather than just survive.
Please contact me for more details about working 1-1 with me or joining one of these courses. You can book a call or a free introductory consultation with me HERE.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Hypnotherapy Practitioner and Diploma
- Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling Diploma
- IEMT practitioner Master Coach Certification
- Master Coach Certification
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Diploma
- Licensed facilitator of SSP – Safe and Sound Protocol
- Youth Mindfulness Teacher Training Certificate
- Laughter Yoga Leader!

