My Journey

 

My path into this work did not come through formal clinical training, but through lived experience, sustained inner practice, and years of sitting with human suffering—my own and others’.

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As a young man I struggled with addiction and compulsive behaviours, including drugs and later sex and love addiction. I have lived through the consequences of avoidance, secrecy, and disconnection, and I know first-hand how difficult genuine change can be.

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Alongside recovery, my life has been shaped by long-term contemplative practice, including over a thousand hours of Vipassana meditation, years of Jungian analysis, and extensive engagement with somatic and body-based approaches. I have also lived with, and ultimately resolved, significant chronic pain conditions by learning to listen to and work with the body rather than overriding it.

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These experiences have given me a grounded understanding of how psychological patterns are formed, defended, and transformed—not as abstract theory, but as something lived in the body, relationships, and daily life.