My Background

I’ve worked across health and social care since 1999, with experience spanning adult mental health, youth justice as a restorative justice practitioner, training, project development, commissioning, and service improvement. I hold a BA (Hons) in Social Policy, which has strongly influenced my understanding of how relationships, environments, systems, and inequality shape emotional wellbeing and people’s experiences.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked alongside children, young people, families, professionals, and organisations across a wide range of services and settings. My experience includes developing and managing projects from the ground up, designing and delivering training and wellbeing initiatives, supporting service development, contributing to evaluation and improvement work, and working within co-production and participation approaches. I have also held trustee roles linked to wellbeing and community support.

These experiences have shown me the importance of approaches that are relational, practical, and sustainable — not just in theory, but in the realities of everyday practice. I’ve seen the difference that emotionally informed environments, restorative approaches, reflective practice, and strong relationships can make for both the people receiving support and the professionals providing it.

My work combines strategic and frontline experience with a practical and human-centred approach to supporting organisations, teams, and projects to strengthen wellbeing, communication, connection, and emotionally informed ways of working.