My story

I am passionate about helping people feel more at home in themselves — mentally, spiritually, physically.

For a long time, I wasn’t – at least not mentally and physically.

After struggling with an eating disorder in my teens and early 20s I dived into a career in the City firstly in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then in financial PR. I may have looked like I was doing well from the outside but inwardly I was struggling with anxiety, insecurity and chronic fatigue. I didn’t realise the impact that my state of mind and the way I was living were having on me.

A turning point came for me when I took a year out to study for an MA in Classical Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. At drama school, there was nowhere to hide. Metaphorically speaking, I was stripped bare, which was momentarily terrifying, but eternally liberating.

Again and again, I was told ‘get out of your head’. And slowly but surely, the penny began to drop.

I became fascinated by how often we feel we need to present a version of ourselves to fit in, to be accepted, to belong. I even ended up writing my dissertation on the concept of the social mask.

In the years that followed, I became increasingly curious about what really helps people thrive - not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too. I founded a personal training business, working with busy professionals. But I quickly saw that what happened in our sessions wasn’t enough. In order to create real change, we needed to look at what was happening outside of the sessions too – sleep, nutrition, movement, state of mind.

That bigger picture became the foundation of everything that followed.

In 2013, I co-founded Gazelle Partners, a corporate wellbeing business focused on sustainable behaviour change. We combined lifestyle medicine with a deep understanding of how the mind works, supporting thousands of people through one-to-one coaching and digital programmes with clients like Google, Accenture and Red Bull. Having supported thousands of people in this arena I became more drawn to the role our state of mind plays in each moment and beyond that to deepening our understanding of who we are at a core and all that means and what happens when we spend more time there.

So today, on the state of mind side, my focus is more personal. I work with individuals who want to experience life differently — whether they’re students, CEOs, or somewhere in between. Some feel stuck or are struggling others are doing fine but sense there’s more ease, confidence, or clarity available to them. I also run insight-led programmes and continue to support organisations through talks and workshops.

And then there is my love of nutrition and nutrigenomics which I continue to find fascinating and bring into support my clients as and when required.

It’s an honour to walk alongside each one for a little while — not to fix them, they don’t need that - to help them see more of who they already are, and who they are on a journey to becoming.