I’m highly experienced in devising & delivering creative socially engaged projects that focus on health & wellbeing.

I bring my own lived experience of mental health difficulties as the catalyst that can affect real change in people’s lives. Through creative activities I believe in equipping individuals with the skills and capacity to take agency of their own stories, discovering who they are and where they want to be. Over the past 15 years I’ve developed the expertise to deliver one off workshops to longer term projects, bringing the strength of vulnerability to how I connect and work with others.

My 5 year leadership role with the arts in the NHS means that I’m adept at the different language that stakeholders use, from arts and cultural funders to clinical workers and artists. I led a pioneering embedded social prescribing charity — Creative Health Camden — developing and producing participatory projects for thousands of patients.

I specialise in working with vulnerable and marginalised groups, including: people living with mental health difficulties, those experiencing homelessness, suicide survivors, young people on the autism spectrum and the elderly. I have experience in developing a breadth of projects — from large scale public engagement to private and confidential projects across clinical settings, working in partnership with healthcare providers.

I also have extensive experience in working and teaching with medics (GPs, psychiatrists, medical students) in exploring concepts of the patient experience and medical humanities.