– I live with dynamic disabilities and chronic illness symptoms which change from day to day. 

– I do the work I do because body-based therapies have had a profound impact on my life. After many years of dissociation, massage and somatics helped me to land in my body, access joy and pleasure, and connect to a sense of safety. I love being able to share this.

– I also won’t pretend that these therapies have been the only piece of the jigsaw. I’ve also be fortunate to have relatively steady housing, strong relationships, access to psychotherapy, medication and gender transition. I believe that wellness is contextual and political, and indivisible from our relationships and political and economic conditions.

What’s shaped my work?

– Living in a divergent body-mind has shaped everything about how I approach somatic and massage therapies. So many healing modalities were appropriated or designed to centre a normative body which simply doesn’t exist. I don’t believe in ‘one size fits all’ approaches and I will never claim to know what’s best for you. I’m interested in working together to figure out what feels good. 

– I’ve spent a lot of time organising and facilitating in various grassroots and community contexts, including Edinburgh Trans Collective Health, Herbalists Without Borders, Trans Survivors Switchboard, local mutual aid projects and community spaces for connection and discussion. Community building and collective action is a really important part of my life. 

– I come from a mixed class background. I grew up primarily in a working class economic bracket, but from the age of 14 I went to a private school on a bursary. This was a jarring experience that’s caused me to feel very attentive to how culture affects how we relate to money. I think a lot about who has access to therapeutic support and how they value it, about sliding scale models, the meaning of ‘disposable income’ and how that looks different for people who have mortgages, savings and pension pots. How I navigate money and renumeration in my work is an ongoing enquiry for me.

– I’m a nerd, and I love to learn. I nearly always have at least one course on the go, and love reading. I’m currently enjoying books about disability theory, critiques of psychiatry and healthcare frameworks which centre curing and fixing, and trashy queer novels. 

A note for fellow practitioners:

I coordinate an online space for queer bodyworkers of various disciplines to discuss our work, share knowledge and seek peer support. We’ve discussed boundaries in queer community, scars, chronic pain, addiction, and more.  

I also facilitate a small group of practitioners discussing financial models for our work, based in Glasgow. 

Please get in touch if you’d like to join either of these!

Bodywork Training

Somatic Trauma Therapy with The School of Complementary Therapies (September 2025 – ongoing)

Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate with The Embody Lab (September 2025 – January 2026)

Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy and Sports Massage with The Jing Institute for Advanced Massage Training (September 2024 – September 2025)

Foundation in Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy with The Jing Institute for Advanced Massage Training (May 2024)

Zero Strain Massage Practitioner Training with 4Elements Massage Company (April – May 2024)

Somatouch Foundations with SomaHolistix (February 2024)

Swedish Massage Therapy (Level 5) with Complementary Therapies School (September 2023 – May 2024)

Other Trainings

Emergency First Aid at Work (September 2024)

Running Great Workshops with Tripod (March 2026)