Hello & Welcome
Taking a holistic approach to health, I combine integrative medicine, mind-body practices and plant-based therapies to help maximise your capacity for healing, resilience and vitality.
My Approach
As a western-trained medical doctor I recognise and applaud modern medicine for providing us with the treatment of acute accidents and many diseases. Yet I also acknowledge that our bodies have an innate healing response that can be facilitated - something that tends to be overlooked when pharmaceutical prescriptions or invasive procedures are the only solutions being offered.
My approach focuses on maximising the innate healing and thriving potential available to each of us by considering the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of health.
Key principles & values that I advocate for:
1. The mind and body are not separate, we cannot heal one without addressing the other.
2. The brain and body systems that process emotions are intimately connected with the hormonal system, the nervous system, and the immune system.
3. Emotional stress undermines immunity, disrupts the body’s physiological milieu and can prepare the ground for disease.
4. Our bodies have an innate healing wisdom.
5. Illness can provide important openings for compassion and self-awareness, which in turn can aid recovery and healing.
6. We are meant to live in community, and as such require love and connection to be whole.
7. We require purpose and meaning for fulfilment, and are innately driven towards gratitude and a sense of service.
8. We are not separate from our environment, and feeling whole depends on finding harmony and balance within our nervous system and within nature.
9. We are born with the capacity for growth, presence, awareness and love; and though this can get buried or lost at certain moments or stages of life, we all have the ability to reconnect to this.
10. Trauma is often the root cause of inflammation. Trauma does not respond well to traditional talk therapy, and instead requires a mind-body approach.
Professional bio
Within the clinical setting my roles include researcher, doctor and therapist at The Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London. I am currently a co-therapist on clinical trials investigating psilocybin-assisted therapy for anorexia nervosa and fibromyalgia.
Outside of the clinical setting I am co-founder and facilitator at Essence Medicine, a (psilocybin-truffle) retreat facilitator, psychedelic-therapy educator and public speaker.
I am passionate about holistic modalities that address all aspects of a person - body, mind, and spirit - and the way in which they work together to promote optimal health and wellbeing. I am also passionate about integrating psycho-spiritual care, including psychedelic therapies, into oncology and palliative care settings to help reduce existential and spiritual suffering and improve quality of life.
I qualified in Medicine from Brighton and Sussex University in 2013 and received my Psychology BSc from Cardiff University in 2007. I have completed additional trainings in Compassionate Inquiry, Nutrition and Environmental Medicine, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Yoga, and MDMA for PTSD Therapy Training (MAPS).