Restoring hope, reimagining healing, and rewriting the narrative of trauma.
Located at the intersection of art and science, my work engages with experiences of violence and articulations of trauma. It embraces hope as a form of resistance and seeks to foster social justice and collective healing.
Through consultancy, I work with colleagues across the academic research ecosystem, the creative industries, healthcare, and the public sector.
I advise on;
Trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practice
Lived experience involvement and leadership, co-production, survivor-centred practice
Creative research methods and outputs
Creative health
In my own creative practice and scientific research, I utilise survivor-led trauma-sensitive approaches to explore the embodied experience of trauma, creative body-based approaches to healing, and the rewriting of the narrative of trauma on survivors’ own terms.
I trained as a dancer with the Ballet de la Côte in Switzerland and I completed an undergraduate degree in arts at Central Saint Martins and postgraduate degrees in creative arts and mental health at Queen Mary University of London, psychology at King’s College London, and neuroscience and traumatic stress at the Justice Resource Institute. I was also awarded an Improvement Leader Fellowship by NIHR CLAHRC NWL.
Current roles:
Editorial Advisory Board, The Lancet Psychiatry
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London
Visiting Lecturer, MASc Creative Health, UCL
Visiting Lecturer, MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health, Queen Mary University of London
Visiting Lecturer, MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins
Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee, University of Oxford
My work has been published, presented, and exhibited internationally, and some of my artwork is held in the Central Saint Martins Museum.
You can find out more in this profile published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
