Our Facilitators

I am a retired senior social worker with a diploma in person-centred counselling and groupwork. 

I trained with Stan Grof as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, and completed a two year psychedelic assisted therapy training with the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy, at the end of 2023.

I help facilitate the Brighton Psychedelics integration group, and am involved in the Imperial College PSILOCD research trial as a volunteer guide which is due to finish summer '24. 

Together with the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers, I work to develop trauma-informed working in hospice and palliative care. I have applied to do an MSc with the Alef Trust to explore in more depth the phenomena of energetic experiences which can be activated during use of psychedelics.

My work as a therapist began over twenty years ago. I initially worked in London as an in-house psychotherapist for a legal charity, and lectured on a BSc Psychotherapy for an affiliated provider of Middlesex University. 

I have worked with a range of people, including those affected by HIV, couples, transgender individuals, sex workers, and those struggling with addiction. 

This has helped shape my approach, which blends attachment theory, trauma techniques, and relational theory.  I designed a mindfulness course for self-regulation, self compassion and nervous system education, and a four week resilience program for men with attachment-based challenges.  

I also teach Yoga at senior (SYT) level, with a specialisation in using yoga therapeutically.   

I am currently in the first year of a two year training in psychedelic assisted therapy with the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy. 

As a clinical psychologist, my day-to-day work allows me the privilege of helping people to make sense of their experiences. I take a contextual and functional approach to this, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectics and Compassion Focused Therapy. I am also very interested in relational understandings of different ‘parts’ of the self.

I have had a longstanding interest in the use of psychedelic and other drugs in all their contexts, therapeutic, spiritual/mystical, euphoric and other, and in harm reduction practices in all these domains. I have been fascinated to follow the renaissance of research into therapeutic use of psychedelics and empathogens to help people with many different mental health issues.

I am an integrative counsellor and groupwork facilitator currently in online private practice alongside co-running a specialist NHS counselling service for chronic physical illness.

I have worked across many settings including private healthcare, NHS, university wellbeing service, women’s prisons, and substance misuse services. I also have a background in holistic healthcare, bodywork and energy work. I am an Accredited member of BACP and a member of the IPT.

 I have a personal and professional interest in the use of psychedelics for individual and collective wellbeing that started through my experiences of free partying and rave culture in the 1990s. I also work as a clinical trial therapist on psilocybin trials in the UK.