About Me

I am a Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registered music therapist. My first instrument is drums, which I have been playing since the age of 12. I also enjoy singing, playing piano, guitar, ukulele and pretty much anything I can make a sound with.

I was drawn to music therapy having witnessed the profound positive affect group music making can have on people’s wellbeing, when I was running group drumming sessions at a day centre for adults with learning disabilities. Studying and working as a music therapist has helped me to connect with my personal experience of how music can allow us to express ourselves in ways that words do not.

I take a person-centered approach to music therapy work with clients of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Using empathy, sensitivity and communicative qualities, I aim to meet each client where they are, to connect and build an effective relationship so that we can work together towards mutually agreed therapeutic aims and goals.

With experience in a variety of clinical contexts and settings, I have developed a dynamic and positive attitude towards my work that enables me to adapt, professionally, personally and musically, to the needs of my clients. 

Since qualifying as a music therapist, I have continued to develop my therapeutic music, professional and personal skills, working with people who are living with Autism, ADHD, Dementia, brain injury, life limiting conditions, PMLD, emotional, social, behavioural and mental health difficulties and children from fostered and adopted families. My clinical experience is underpinned by a strong theoretical understanding of music therapy and psychology concepts, including psychodynamic theory, developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, attunement, behavioural psychology, music therapeutic modalities and research methods. I take an integrative approach to music therapy, strongly believing that my ability to meet each individual’s needs is best served by an open and flexible mind, capable of drawing on a variety of techniques, theories and frameworks.

As well as my music therapy work, I am involved in community music projects in Wiltshire such as Zone Club, a music and song writing group for adults with learning disabilities. I also lead and facilitate interactive group music workshops for Julia’s House Children’s Hospice and Nurseries in Wiltshire. I am a registered provider of music therapy for Adoption West. Between 2016 and 2021, I worked as a music facilitator for the Clic Sargent Music Program, where I was involved in running residential music workshops for young people living with cancer.

I have been playing drums professionally since 2006. My career has taken me around the world, performing and recording drums in Europe, North America and Asia. I have been fortunate enough to perform at venues and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Brixton Academy, London and The National Indoor Arena, Birmingham. In 2012 and 2013 I was nominated in the Blues Drummer of the Year category at the British Blues Awards. In 2018 I joined the Ludwig artist family as an endorsee of Ludwig drums.