Therapist and Performance Coach

I have worked as a musician for all of my professional career. I have first-hand experience of the problems musicians face professionally and personally. 

I have always had an interest in Music Psychology and I completed an MA in 2017. I then trained as a cognitive behavioural therapist. 

I work with musicians of all ages and stages in their career. 

 I draw from different therapeutic approaches and offer a set of strategies to help clients understand and change obstructive thinking patterns in a calm, supportive and non-judgemental environment.

I help people dismantle limiting beliefs about themselves and work to remove barriers preventing them from living the life they want to lead or being the musician or the person they want to be. 

I  help people deal with the many pervasive problems in the industry, including: performance anxiety, job insecurity, imposter syndrome, low self-esteem, perfectionism, procrastination, bullying, depression, and addiction. 

My professional background includes work with Barnardo’s, the National Children’s Home (now Action For Children), pupil referral units where I was helping young adults who had fallen through the cracks at school. I have been a visiting coach at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban. More recently I worked for Anxiety UK and am currently in private practice and linked to music specific services. Over thirty years of fruitful collaboration with all ages and abilities has given me an understanding of the effort, dedication and partnership necessary to make critical steps forward, in art and in life.