Before the
therapy room
My story does not begin in a consulting room.
It begins much further away.
I grew up on the outskirts of the Amazon, in a world shaped by scarcity and struggle and by the kind of pain that lives quietly inside a home.
From an early age, I understood what it means to carry wounds that were never chosen. But I also discovered something that would shape everything I would later become:
Only I could change my future. And the first step was learning to care for myself.
That discovery that our wounds can either pin us down or, when met with honesty, show us how to break free became the foundation of my life's work. I carried it from the Amazon to London, through decades of working with people at their most vulnerable.
TRAUMA
Then came the work I am perhaps most humbled by: mentoring survivors of human trafficking, walking alongside people as they took their first courageous steps back into life after profound violation and loss. This work demanded everything: patience, presence, and an unwavering belief in the resilience of the human spirit.
WHAT I LEARNED
"Trauma steals identity. Recovery is the slow work of finding it again."
THE BODY
I trained as a personal trainer and nutritional advisor, helping people recover from injuries, rebuild their strength, and perhaps most importantly, recover their confidence in themselves. I learned that healing the physical and healing the emotional are rarely separate.
WHAT I LEARNED
"Self-esteem lives in the body before it lives in the mind."
CHILDREN
I started my professional life as a specialist in child development, emotional and motor. Those early years placed me at the very beginning of the human story, watching how the smallest experiences leave the deepest marks.
WHAT I LEARNED
"Children rely on their caregivers to learn that they exist that they matter. That knowledge, given or denied, shapes everything that follows."
ADDICTION
When I trained as a Counsellor Therapist and began working at a highly renowned addiction recovery institution in London, everything converged. Facilitating therapy groups, meeting people one to one, working with addiction to substances, alcohol, sex, pornography, love, and food, I witnessed again and again how addiction is not a weakness. It is a wound.
WHAT I LEARNED
"No one chooses to be trapped. Addiction is pain that found a way to survive."
What I saw in every person, from the child struggling to feel loved, to the survivor rebuilding trust, to the person trapped in addiction, was the same quiet devastation.
An emotional wound that had never been truly met.
In time, I opened my own private practice. Over the years I have worked with thousands of people from all walks of life, all ages, all kinds of pain.
That depth of experience gave rise to my own therapeutic approach. I call it Emotional Wounds Enquiry, a method that goes deeper than managing symptoms, to meet the original wound, and to begin, truly, to heal.
WHAT I KNOW
"Beneath every symptom is a story waiting to be heard."