My passion is good health care. Health and wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease is what I actively champion within my various roles and in life generally. To work with and see positive change in another is a marvellous thing indeed and is the motivation for the work I do.

I have been running my integrative herbal medicine practice since 1995, much of this time based in Kent and since 2019 from the beautiful west country.

Alongside my herbal practice, I have many years’ experience of working within the NHS in the realms of Quality Improvement and NICE Clinical Guidance Implementation, starting as I did in 2007.  I am also a mental health first aider and have been a health and wellbeing champion within the hospital trusts I have worked in, both much-needed resources.

I enjoy the juxtaposition between the work I do within the community and that within the acute sector, both concerned with improving health and healthcare in their various ways.

After qualifying from the College of Phytotherapy (CoP) in 1995 I went on to work as a clinical supervisor and then as director of the herbal medicine training clinic for the CoP, also lecturing in herbal therapeutics & Materia medica over a period of years.

I was secretary and council member for the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy from 2004-2010 and remain a loyal member. 

Tending my garden and allotment and travelling when I can gives me much pleasure. I took a year’s sabbatical in 2010 and spent the brunt of it in Gujurat and Karnataka, India working voluntarily within in a Nature cure centre and spending time in various Vipassana meditation centres & Ayurvedic centres.  Such a valuable and insightful time which influences my practice to this day.