My Credentials: 

  • Masters of Education (Career Development) (QUT) 

  • Published author in the british journal of music education, “How can we prepare music students for early career challenges” (2022)

  • Graduate Certificate of the Career Counselling of Elite Performers (VU)

  • Graduate Certificate in Social Health and Counselling (MQU)

  • Bachelor of Music Studies (Syd)

  • Certificate 3 and 4 in Fitness (FIAFitnation) 

My Story

All of my work is based around a core truth. Your career is a creative construct! What you choose to do with the half of your waking life that you spend working is a creative decision that has a BIG impact on all aspects of your life. It is also a decision that many of us go into blindly, without practical tools to navigate the multitude of choices. I am passionate about helping people to navigate this creative process, to design a life and career that is both meaningful and joyful.

I am a career and creativity coach who specialises in working with young people, creatives and people pursuing nonconventional pathways. We are in a time of unprecedented change and choice in the labour market, and the art of designing your life and career is most important than ever.

My love for this area has led me to opportunities to work with groups like the UTS Business School, the Matildas, popular and classical professional artists and the Macquarie University Elite Athlete Program. I have developed and facilitated workshops on a ‘Sustainable Approach to a Career in the Arts’ focusing on health promotion and career education for professional artists. 

Alongside career coaching, my Dad and I started the Mental Spinach Project. This is a not-for-profit project that includes a published pocketbook and workshops that explore how you can grow your world more authentically and creatively. To date we have raised over $45,000 for charities supporting young poeple. Click on the Mental Spinach picture to your left to be connected to the blog. 

MY PHILOSOPHY 

At its foundations coaching and counselling for me is a collaborative conversation and the sharing of a story in which a greater clarity and sense of meaning is looking to be found. From this perspective my personal career counselling theory has been greatly influenced by three humanistic theories including Carl Roger’s person-centered therapy, Mark Savickas’s life design and Larry Cochran’s narrative career counselling approach. On top of this I have also been heavily influenced by design thinking and the work of Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Design thinking can be applied to your career and I love teaching the tools from their book 'Designing Your Life'. 

Career education, coaching and counselling all take slightly varied approaches to helping individuals to navigate work and life. It can take a guidance or educational approach at times with helping people to build the skills, attitudes and competencies to survive the world of work. It can be a creative space in which activity-based exercises can help to build a sense of coherency in your career story. It can also be more reflective space in which as a counsellor, I help you to explore how your story can inform and help you through your transition. It is my job to help to create a safe space for this discovery. 

“Interested inquirer, respectful listener and tentative coconstructor.”
— McMahon and Patton, 2007

My CREATIVE PRACTICE 

I have been a professional artist for the past 15 years. Here are some other samples of the work I have done.