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.