I am a Senior Accredited member of BACP, and a registered member of UKCP (psychotherapeutic counsellor). I hold Diplomas in Integrative Psychosynthesis Counselling and in Supervision of counselling and psychotherapy from ReVision, in London. I am now also a member of the training team at ReVision, where I work as a training supervisor.

I was born and grew up in South Africa, and moved to England in the mid-1990s. I trained initially as an art historian, and still have a passion for art. I taught art history at the University of South Africa for a couple of years, and then worked as a teacher trainer. After relocating to England, I worked in various charities, first in Cambridge, and then in Birmingham.

I began meditating in 1989, and my involvement with Buddhism is what brought me to England. In 2000 I was ordained and given the Buddhist name Manjusura, by which some people know me.  This means something like ‘Gentle Hero.’  

I am also a writer, and regularly contribute essays and articles to various magazines and journals. I mostly write about poetry and art, but have published on several different subjects.  

I am an accredited yoga teacher, and my love of yoga and embodiment practices informs and inspires my work as therapist and supervisor. I am a student of the Diamond Approach, a contemporary spiritual path founded by Hameed Ali (who writes under the name A. H. Almaas). This approach explores the relationship between psychological and spiritual experience, and sees no division between spiritual or soul work and deep therapeutic inquiry.

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