Since starting work as a therapist in 2000, as well as a private practice,  I have worked in psychiatric hospitals, GP surgeries, charity services, clinics, outreach work and services to business. The wide variety of client base I deal with led me to train in a mix of therapies that worked with different types of people and conditions. The acute clients I deal with led me to investigate and focus on therapies that helped people stabilise and get back to health quickly. During the work I have done with acute problems of addiction, eating disorders and bi-polar disorder  I often encountered trauma and difficulties with self-regulation. This led me to trauma therapy techniques like biofeedback, and how to help people get better at managing their own state. As a result I started a number of groups in the hospital to pass on this information to clients and help them make practical use of it. This resulted in work with Professor Gordon Turnbull, who specialises in Complex Trauma, and led to the development of the Dedicated Stress and Trauma Service.Before training as a psychotherapist I worked in business for around 20 years in a variety of management and directorship roles. I currently lecture RADA and The Royal Academy on Resilience and teach Chi Kung and Mindfulness.