1999 Graduated with Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology, 2:1. University of Sussex, UK.
2000 Assistant Psychologist at University College London Hospitals. Worked with kids with Tourette’s Syndrome.
2001 First foray into the inner-city London corporate world. Sales & IT Recruitment.
2002 Coordinator for Clinical Psychology Services. Worked with clinical psychologists in the same-day HIV testing clinic.
2003 Important nomadic period: teaching English in Japan, travelling South East Asia and Papua New Guinea. The best of times.
2005 Moved to New Zealand. Got heartbroken. Worked in various demeaning and crappy temping jobs to fund my life coach training.
2005 Certified NLP practitioner.
2006 Certified NLP Master Practitioner.
2006 Established my private coaching practice in Wellington. Full-time and fully profitable in six months.
2006 Start running my ‘Creating Your Successful NLP Business’ intensive training for aspiring coaches. Runs for five years.
2009 Certified NLP Life Coach.
2009 Certified NLP Instructor. Media attention for sleep therapy and business blows up (I burn out).
2012 A new cycle of being employed as an in-house coach & facilitator. Senior Advisor of Organisational Development – Ministry of Health.
2013 Accredited Strengths Performance Coach – Clifton StrengthsFinder, Gallup.
2013 Lead Coach. Supervising, mentoring, training and developing team of in-house leadership coaches. Organisational Development and Learning & Development – Inland Revenue.
2014 Get married. Renovate some of our house. Get pregnant. Have a baby.
Renovate some more of our house.
2016 Continue running my business part-time. Have some awesome speaking gigs and career developments!
2017 Accredited mBraining (mBIT) Coach. Finish renovating our house (finally).
2018 Implement complete lifestyle change: integrating running a business, being a mum and an active member of the community.
Write my parenting book. Get pregnant again and have my second and last child in 2019.
2024 Awarded my full certification for Havening Techniques®. This was a 2-day training, followed by an intensive period of submitting case studies (32, 2 of which were videoed sessions, all needed to be fully approved and signed off) and the passing of a science exam which had to be a 100% pass. This intensive process took me (and my lovely supportive supervisor and trainer) 18 months to complete. A career-proud moment, this one!
Read my formal Havening Bio here
