My Story
My path has never followed a straight line, and I've come to see that as a feature rather than a flaw. My first real community work wasn't in a clinic — it was working out how to teach skateboarding to rebellious kids and teens. No one had really done it before, so I had to invent the approach as I went.
While I was at university I ran Compound, a skate shop that became far more of a community hub than a retail outlet. Around it I put on skate and music events and festivals — and learned early that the right space, and the right people in it, can change lives as much as any formal program.
It was only after all of that that I moved into clinical work. I began in residential youth work, then moved through Child Safety, Corrective Services and Community Mental Health, into private group practice, and eventually built my own practice.
Psychology became the throughline — a discipline that takes the inner life seriously while staying rigorous about evidence. But I kept noticing that individual wellbeing is inseparable from the systems people live inside: families, workplaces, communities, technologies and cultures all shaping what's possible for a person.
What ties all of it together is a single conviction: that people, organisations and communities flourish when they can see themselves and their context more clearly. Everything I build is an attempt to make that kind of clarity a little more accessible.