A restorative practitioner and family mediator based in Manawatū-Whanganui, working with people and organisations across Aotearoa.

My approach is informed by the neuroscience and psychology of trauma — because high-conflict situations, especially where there’s been harm, need to be met with an understanding of what the nervous system is actually doing, not just what's being said.

That way of working sits on a long career. Before restorative and family work, I spent twenty years in financial services — seven of them coaching, mentoring and facilitating — learning how people think, decide and shift when the pressure is on. Everything since has been in service of the same thing: walking alongside people through their hardest conversations, in workplaces, whānau and restorative justice across the motu.

When I'm not holding space for others, you'll find me in the vege patch, walking my dogs, or spending time with my whānau.