Work with Me
I create spaces for deepened awareness, embodied presence, and authentic expression through voice, sound, movement and contemplative practice.
My work supports you to slow down, listen deeply, and come into closer relationship with yourself, with others, and with the sacred.
Over the years, I have trained in a range of modalities, including Deep Coaching, Ignatian spiritual direction, sound therapy, Naked Voice Facilitation, and InterPlay.
The different strands of my work are grounded in a shared orientation towards presence, authenticity, and the wisdom of the body.
At the heart of them all is embodiment — a way of listening to and working with your lived, felt experience.
Ways We Can Work Together
DEEP Coaching
An embodied approach to exploring deeper questions, patterns, and challenges in a grounded and practical way.
Sound Therapy
A restorative experience using sound frequency and vibration to calm the nervous system, release tension, and support the body’s natural capacity for healing.
Naked Voice Facilitation
An embodied approach to voice that supports freedom, confidence, expression, and deeper connection to your authentic sound.
Spiritual direction
A contemplative space for noticing and responding to the presence of the divine in your life through deep listening, prayerful reflection, and discernment.
InterPlay & VocalPlay
An embodied practice weaving together movement, sound, storytelling, and stillness — opening space for creativity, presence, and playful connection.
offering An integrated approach
You are welcome to pursue a specific pathway, or to work in a way that combines different elements. Each session is shaped around your needs, your intentions, and what feels most supportive for you at the time.
Embodiment is the capacity to be present in your body — aware of sensation, feeling, and inner movement as it unfolds.
It is a way of listening inwardly, where experience is not only thought about, but directly sensed and felt.
Much of the time, we live in our heads — thinking, analysing, managing, and responding from habit. In doing so, we lose touch with the deeper intelligence of the body and with what we are experiencing beneath the surface.
Embodiment invites us back into relationship with ourselves.
As we begin to notice what is happening in the body, we come into closer contact with the reality of the present moment. This awareness brings greater clarity, self-understanding, and choice. It helps us recognise when something is out of alignment, or when something deeper is asking for attention.
Embodiment is a lived practice — one that supports healing, insight, expression, and meaningful change.
My Own Journey Back to Embodiment
I first encountered the notion of embodied presence during my PhD research into Scots traditional singing. Traveller singer Sheila Stewart spoke of the need to let go of inhibition and to “put your heart into it.” Scholars describe the most powerful ballad singing as that which is fully presenced through the body — creating a living, imaginative encounter between singer and listener.
This understanding of embodied presence marked a turning point. It led me to a deeper inquiry into my own artistry and, more personally, into the performance anxiety that had profoundly altered my relationship with singing. Having been known for my natural ability to inhabit a song, I went through years when I could no longer perform — and others when I did, but only in a state of disconnection and dissociation.
Of the many forms of support I sought, the most significant shift came not from trying to overcome fear, but from learning to feel it — deeply, honestly, and without turning away.
I worked with a somatic coach who could safely support me to remain present to the depth of my experience: to notice sensation, stay with what was arising, and allow it to be as it was.
In that space of attentive presence, something began to change.
As I came to understand the roots of the fear I was carrying, my relationship with those feelings began to change. What had long been hidden came into the light. What had been overwhelming then became workable.
A different relationship with my voice — and a deeper relationship with myself — became possible.
This way of working became foundational not only to my own healing and development, but also to my life as a singer, and ultimately led me into the training I have since undertaken.
It is from this ground that I now accompany others — creating carefully held spaces of embodied presence in which deeper listening, reconnection, and transformation can unfold.
Interested in working together?
If you’d like to explore whether this work may be a good fit for you, I’d be glad to hear from you. You're most welcome to get in touch here.
CREDENTIALS
Naked Voice Facilitator Training - with Chloe Goodchild
Ignatian Spiritual Direction
Certified Deep Coaching Professional (with the Enneagram)
InterPlay & VocalPlay Leader
Professional Diploma in Sound Healing Practice
Advanced Diploma in Professional & Executive Coaching & Mentoring - Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring
Crystal Bowl Mastery with Ashana
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Member of the International Coaching Federation
Member of the Epiphany Group, Scotland
Certified Member of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapists
Sound Healing Academy Practitioner
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
PhD Candidate (Ethnomusicology), University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne Conservatorium
Graduate Diploma in Chinese, University of Melbourne
Master of Arts, University of Glasgow
PROFESSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
The Neuroscience of Change
The Power of Presence
Guided Meditation for Therapists
Enneagram Intensive Training with Dr David Daniels, Psychiatrist, Enneagram pioneer and authority
Wellsound Studio
24 ADAIR STREET
MALDON 3463 VIC.
