I’m a writer, psychotherapist, creative writing tutor and meditation practitioner.
These roles fuel my interest in words and writing as a way of staying close to experience long enough that it fully reveals itself - an exploration I make through my own storytelling and in my work with others.
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Screenplay, poetry, fiction, memoir and journalism. I like to think of myself as a word philosopher – as interested in making language use transparent as in what’s being said within the words and delighted by the play and the paradox…
I initially worked on feature films and as a screenwriter. I am a winner of the Sky Movies Short Film Award and have taught degree level creative writing for The Open University and The University of Exeter. I’m an integrative psychotherapist (MA in the Therapeutic Application of the Arts) trained in body-based trauma work. I’m also a longtime meditation and non-dual practitioner. I’ve edited and ghost-written the books of high-profile figures and regularly speak/lead workshops at literary festivals and summer schools. The London School of Economics described my work through Wild Words as ‘revitalising creative writing teaching’.
Health and connection are all about making contact: with ourselves, with others, with our world. We are always and everywhere – in writing, meditation, therapy and every other aspect of life – orientating towards health and connection. It’s a continuous and natural process of testing how much contact it’s safe to make with experience, withdrawing and testing again – like a bird circling – until full contact is possible. My interest is in observing and recording this process, what enables it and what sabotages it. In order to connect and expand our sense of who I am. To live a more full fleshed out life.