As a social worker, counsellor, art therapist, senior registered yoga teacher and teacher-trainer, I work at the intersection of yoga, psychology, mental health and social justice. My work brings together over two decades of teaching experience, clinical practice, ongoing study and lived experience, exploring how we can approach healing with greater kindness, complexity and discernment.

I've been teaching yoga since 2003 and practising since childhood, and have taught extensively on yoga teacher trainings, yoga therapy programs and professional development courses in Australia and internationally.

Today, much of my work centres around my 50-hour Teaching Yoga for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression & Body Image training, which has reached close to 1,000 graduates worldwide. Offered online and in person, the training brings together trauma, mental health, body image, social justice and yoga philosophy, supporting yoga teachers, therapists and other helping professionals to develop more inclusive, responsive and ethically informed approaches.

I also facilitate an annual professional training retreat in Bali, open to graduates and kindred colleagues in parallel fields, and a 12-month small-group mentoring program for graduates. My online courses include the eight-class Yoga for Anxiety & Depression series and four-class Trauma-Sensitive Yoga home practice series. Earlier programs, including Body Love Yoga, have been shared across Australia's east coast and internationally.

My teaching draws on extensive ongoing training in trauma-sensitive and mental-health-sensitive yoga, hatha, vinyasa flow, Viniyoga, yoga therapy, yin yoga and body-positive approaches, alongside a commitment to understanding the social, cultural and systemic conditions shaping our wellbeing.

I've also taught into the Trauma Informed Practice and Mental Health subjects within the Bachelor of Social Work program at the University of Wollongong, and been involved with Off the Mat, Into the World Australia and the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.

From 2012–2020, I ran a private counselling practice specialising in trauma, anxiety, depression, body image, emotional eating and eating disorder recovery. These days, my one-to-one work focuses primarily on professional mentoring within my 12-month Small Group Mentoring Program.

Across these spaces, I'm interested in the possibilities that emerge when yoga, psychology and social justice are brought into conversation. How we might make room for the complexity of being human, honour the dignity of our longing for healing, and cultivate practices that support greater agency, connection and freedom in our individual and collective lives.