I have danced ever since the local gymnastics club told my mum that it wasn't worth me carrying on because I was not flexible enough (I was 4). I was lucky enough to be enrolled in a dance school that did not attach worth to the shape or flexibility of a person but instead focused on allowing us to do our best and enjoy the experience of movement across multiple disciplines (ballet, modern, jazz, tap, national). When I left school my head was not filled with possibilities, rather it was quite blank as I had no idea what I wanted to DO with my life. I did know I wanted to dance and once I found out that a bachelor's in dance was something that existed that was the path I chose.

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Unfortunately, dance performance doesn't pay the bills unless you are in the top 1% for technique and flexibility and happen to have been a little bit lucky and dance teaching jobs are usually low in hours so, while I shared my love of dance in community settings, I fell into administration. First for theatres in London and then in professional sport.

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Fast forward a few years and I found myself moving to Australia where I retrained as a personal trainer. After 5 years working with people of all ages and abilities in the gym, and as a dance teacher I found myself again in administration, this time for a private mental health facility in Newcastle, NSW.

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It was here that all my experiences converged and, with the encouragement of the clinicians I worked with, I enrolled on the newly minted Masters of Creative Arts Therapy course at the University of Melbourne. This course included 4 placements which afforded me experience with a range of populations from pre-school and primary aged neurodiverse children, people with dementia, stroke survivors and a private inpatient psychiatric unit.

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I have since worked in private practice with a range of people with different diagnoses and needs, from neurodiverse people, to those managing trauma and survivors of stroke.