The Story
I am a chiropractor, coach, and author based in Cygnet, Tasmania. For most of my career, I worked with bodies. Somewhere along the way, I realised I was also working with stories — the ones people carry in their shoulders, their jaws, their sleepless nights. This is how I ended up here, doing work that lives between clinical practice and something harder to name.
Where It Started
For years, I worked as a chiropractor in Sydney. I found the clinical work deeply rewarding — the precision of it, the trust people placed in me, the small moments of relief that made a real difference to someone's day. But over time, I started noticing patterns that went beyond the musculoskeletal.
People came in with back pain or tension headaches, and what I kept hearing were stories of transition. Career changes that had not quite landed. Relationships that had shifted shape. The slow, invisible weight of years spent holding everything together. Their bodies were keeping a record their minds had not caught up with.
I did not set out to become a coach or a writer. But when you spend enough years listening to people in that particular kind of honesty — the kind that surfaces when someone is in pain and tired of pretending they are fine — it changes what you think your work is actually about.
A Change of Season
Moving to regional Tasmania was my own unfolding. Like a lot of the people I work with, I had been living in a shape that no longer fit — performing competence, keeping pace, doing all the things that looked right from the outside. The move to the Huon Valley was not an escape. It was a decision to stop postponing the life I actually wanted.
In Cygnet, I found the space to bring together what I had been keeping separate: the clinical rigour of my training and the quieter, harder-to-measure work of helping people find their way through change. The valley itself taught me something about seasons — that stillness is not the same as stagnation, and that some of the most important growth happens when it looks like nothing is happening at all.
How I Work
I think of transformation the way I think of origami. You start with a flat sheet — all potential, no shape. Then you make folds. Some are deliberate. Some are accidental creases you have to work with. And slowly, something emerges that was always possible but never guaranteed.
The journey I keep witnessing — in my own life and in the lives of the people I work with — moves through recognisable stages. From feeling stuck and solid like a rock, to finding movement like a boat on water, to discovering a quiet grace like a swan, and eventually, to the freedom of a bird in flight. Not everyone moves through these in order. Not everyone reaches every stage. But naming them helps.
What I have learned is that we do our best work when we stop trying to fix individual problems in isolation and start paying attention to the whole picture — the physical and the emotional, the practical and the personal, the parts of ourselves we show the world and the parts we keep folded away.
This shapes everything I do:
- As a coach, I walk alongside people through seasons of transition — not to tell them who to become, but to help them hear what they already know. We look at patterns, build strategies that actually fit their lives, and practise moving from performance to presence.
- As an author, I write about what I have seen in twenty years of clinical practice: how our bodies carry the stories our minds try to file away, and what happens when we start listening instead of pushing through.
- As a chiropractor, I continue to serve the Cygnet community with hands-on musculoskeletal care, informed by evidence and shaped by genuine care for the people who walk through the door.
Qualifications & Background
I am an AHPRA-registered chiropractor with a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) and a Diplomate of the International College of Chiropractic Paediatrics (DICCP).
My coaching work draws on that clinical foundation — years of training in how the body works, continued professional development in health education and mentoring, and the kind of learning that only comes from sitting with real people through real difficulty. I do not separate my clinical knowledge from my coaching practice; they inform each other constantly.
Looking for Clinical Care?
If you are looking for hands-on musculoskeletal care — help with back pain, neck pain, headaches, or other physical concerns — that is a different part of my work. You will find everything you need on the clinical practice site, including how to book an appointment.