I have been through divorce and I am still on my cancer journey. I have lived a corporate life and survived restructures, redundancies and the need to find a new career. Through each overwhelming transition, I looked for positive, practical support that could acknowledge the hard reality while helping me understand myself and keep moving forward. I could not find quite what I needed… so I created it, to help others like me.
The shock of a diagnosis. The realisation that a relationship has come to an end. The punch of grief when someone you love is gone. The redundancy you never saw coming, the loss of a career or the fear of retirement. The landscape can change daily, and the sense of control you once had can disappear.
My cancer diagnosis came during a routine breast screen appointment scheduled into a busy day. I had allowed an hour and expected to leave with another item ticked off my list. That was not the case.
As my cancer journey began, I started journalling my thoughts and feelings and researching ways to live my best life while facing the challenge in front of me. As a certified Art Therapist, I used creative journalling to process my experience. It gave me somewhere to place the noise, recognise what I was feeling and reconnect with parts of myself beyond cancer.
When I shared the process with other people on similar journeys, they wanted to know more. I realised that the consulting work I had already been doing with women navigating divorce and career transition could be adapted to support women facing many kinds of overwhelming life change.
The more I researched and listened, the clearer the gap became. So I wrote The Very Helpful Cancer Journal and launched The Creative Journalist: practical, creative support for the woman behind the diagnosis, divorce or life-changing event.
My second book, The Very Helpful Divorce Journal, is on the way.
My work combines lived experience, professional expertise and unwavering integrity, with guidance that is compassionate, practical and grounded in what genuinely works.
For more than 30 years, I have worked across corporate and purpose-led organisations, helping people and teams navigate professional and personal change. I have developed and delivered programs in career transition, capability, engagement and large-scale transformation, always balancing pragmatism with compassion.
Together with my Art Therapy practice, this experience shapes a clear and collaborative approach: we make space for what you are thinking and feeling, then translate insight into practical action. The work is optimistic without pretending change is easy, and joyful without minimising what you are carrying.
Change is hard, often exhausting and sometimes deeply unfair. Acknowledging that reality matters. But support should not stop at naming what has happened—it should help you decide what comes next.
Let me reframe change by asking you to try something. Trust me.
Let me repeat that and allow it to sink in:
Write down all the reasons you can’t live the life you want.
Look at what you have written. Which barriers are outside your control, and which might be ready to question, reframe or approach differently?
Once you decide it is time to explore what is standing between you and the life you want, your focus begins to shift. You do not need to have everything figured out. You only need to find the next manageable step.
And I say we because you do not have to navigate it alone.
Creativity offers another language when words are not enough. It can help you unravel confusion, express emotion, discover what matters and see possibilities that previously felt hidden. Practical action then helps turn those insights into a meaningful way forward.
Life keeps happening in the spaces between appointments, meetings and milestones. That is where I can help.
You do not need to return to the person you were before. This is about discovering who you are now—and what you want to carry forward.
Discover the ways we can work together, from one-to-one sessions to creative workshops and organisational programs.
