One practice, held together by attention.

I work as a psychosocial recovery coach and registered psychotherapist across Melbourne, supporting others to build lives that feel meaningful, connected and self-directed. There's no clinic — sessions happen wherever suits each person best: walking somewhere green, a comfortable public space, or any place that feels safe and right for you.

I'm sometimes asked how photography and psychotherapy connect. The honest answer is that they've never felt separate — they're one way of seeing, practised two ways. Both ask me to be present, to notice what's actually there, and to hold space for what's unfolding. In a session, that means listening past the obvious. Behind a camera, it means waiting for the quiet moment most would walk past.

Creativity sits at the centre of all of it. Photography came first — more than twenty years as a working professional, an eye and a discipline built one frame at a time. Psychotherapy is the newer registration, and it draws on everything that craft taught me: paying attention, staying with what's there, and finding a way to express it. Often the camera comes into sessions themselves — learning to see creatively is one of the most accessible forms of expression I know. And the creativity that matters most in the work is never mine: it's yours.

Before this work I spent years in business and finance, which left me with a practical streak: plans that can actually be followed, paperwork done properly, and supports that fit real life rather than the other way around.

If all of it has a single thread, it's this: photography taught me the art of seeing. Psychotherapy taught me the art of seeing differently.