About Me

I am someone who finds a great deal of joy in life despite having encountered many challenges and much loss. I love working with people and have done so as a teacher, a senior leader in education, a psychotherapist and a voluntary advice worker with refugees. Above all, I love the God who created us all – the God, who Pope Francis reminded us, is the God of Mercy.

I am a Catholic who has been much influenced by both Benedictine and Jesuit spirituality. In the mid 1980’s the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey gave me a deep love of the Liturgy of the Hours and Lectio Divina. Years later, I was fortunate enough to take part in a Week of Guided Prayer led by the Jesuits at Salford Cathedral, which led to me being invited to train as a Prayer Guide. This work eventually led to me discerning a call to the ministry of Spiritual Direction and doing further training at St Bueno’s where I am now a Guest Director.

It is important to me that my work is inclusive. Spiritual directors are not orthodoxy police – we are here to help people recognise and respond to the loving God who is already at work in our lives, calling us into a deeper relationship with the Creator. God loves every single one of us regardless of our religious affiliation, existing prayer practices, sexuality, marital status or choice of football team. If you want to deepen your prayer life or figure out where you stand with religion or talk about who God is to you – then you are welcome here.

I also work as a counsellor/psychotherapist in private practice. There is some overlap in the two practices but they are kept separate. If you have worked with me in therapy then you will need to find someone else for spiritual direction and vice versa.