I found sound therapy the way that many people working in the mental health and wellbeing space enter the industry: I needed it for myself. But my story started long before that.

I grew up in Cumbria as a wild curly haired, free spirited little person constantly covered in mud, scampering up trees, jumping in rivers and admiring nature with wide-eyed wonder. I also fell in love with sound and music, and using it as a way to communicate, reflect and create memories.

Life found a path, strongly carved out by my love for sound. Music was the way I communicated, and no matter what it would always be a huge part of who I was. But, of course, love and passion can’t stop the challenges and pain of life finding their way back in.

Sudden loss, surgical trauma, long term chronic illness and grief (in all senses of the word) became unwelcome visitors at my door. However, I didn’t process it.

Like so many others, I just kept going.

Until I saw an advertisement for a Sound Therapist Qualification. It seemed like a good distraction.  Little did I know what it was going to unearth.

I wasn’t your *typical* healing type.

You’d rarely find me in a yoga studio, I’d never been to a woman’s circle and I’d rolled my eyes a fair few times at the elaborate promises of manifestation coaches and self-appointed gurus on Instagram. But this? It couldn't have been more different.

During a sound bath for my course, I had an experience that well and truly blasted any of the scepticism out of me. I had such a profound and impactful emotional response that I was overcome by tears and could not stop. 

Through developing my sound therapy practice, my body and mind slowly started to unravel and shift things that had been unknowingly dictating my life for years. I learnt about the darkest parts of myself and the reasons I am who I am. I peeled away all of those messy layers and learnt to love them all. I set the wildest parts of my inner self free.

I felt more energised than I’d ever been; it was as if the fog had lifted.

It empowered me to start making the adjustments that would ultimately lead to transformative changes. It gave me a new community, a new way of seeing the world and a new love to share.

Now, I’m still that wild curly haired, free spirited person walking into everything with a big smile and an open heart. Life continues to have its ups and downs. The difference is that I now lean into each and every one of them, sit with them and allow my understanding of the world through sound - and myself - help me navigate all other worlds.

I feel it all because feelings are to be felt.

That’s why I’ve made it my mission to use my voice - in all of its different forms - to share the power of sound so that I can bring it to those who may not have felt able to reach it before. 
You’ll find me based in North Yorkshire.