About
If you are seeking a transformation coach for those crossing thresholds, navigating the liminal space between who you were and who you are becoming, lets begin. My work sits at the intersection of psychology, somatic practices, and soul. I specialize in shadow integration, ancestral healing, and supporting those in recovery from addiction and complex trauma.
I hold an MA in Community Development, an ICF-accredited coaching certification from the Irish Life Coaching Institute, and I am completing an MSc in Psychology with modules in behavioural neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and trauma integration.
Lifelong Learner
My first masters degree was an MA in Community Development from the National University of Ireland, Galway, focused on social inclusion, collective empowerment, and understanding the structures that create poverty and exclusion. With the Galway Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Group, I worked with individuals navigating the Direct Provision system, creating platforms for marginalised voices to be heard in service planning. It shaped the way I understand power, voice, and what it means to truly listen.
I spent a year in South America working for an NGO running schools to prepare disadvantaged children to transition into formal education. That year clarified my responsibility to use the power I hold and the gifts I have been given to make my contribution to the world.
Sobriety Was the Biggest Trip of All
My sobriety and recovery from addiction triggered a prolonged dark night of the soul. What I rarely hear discussed is that when you remove alcohol or substances, whatever you have been avoiding will come up full force to be felt. More of a tsunami than a tidal wave.
This is where I am a sobriety coach with lived experience. I hold space as someone who has come out the other side of that particular darkness. It became the gateway through which I processed trauma, not just from this lifetime, but intergenerational. Ancestral healing is not abstract. It is tangible and sacred work.
That journey was my initiation into deep spirituality, nervous system repair, and fuller embodiment of authenticity. A total restructuring of the self. Learning to navigate social spaces without the usual lubrication to bypass anxiety was interesting. Now, left exposed to the full spectrum of human emotion at all times, I ride those waves and meet all parts of myself with unconditional love.
The Alchemy of Coaching
One of the pillars I love about coaching is understanding that we can never truly help someone by stepping in and thinking we know what they should do. Through deep listening and the right questions, the client enters a dialogue with their deepest self. That is where the magic is.
I do not coach from my story. My story has given me the depth and presence to meet and accept everyone exactly where they are at. As a coach, I feel like something of a blank canvas when I am in that space. What coaching truly is, is meeting the person where they are at with curiosity, a diverse toolkit, and the privilege to witness their story unfold.
What's Next?
I am currently completing my second master's, an MSc in Psychology, with modules including behavioural neuroscience, research methods, and social psychology. I am excited to explore further study into the physiological, and ancestral dimensions of long term detoxification and nervous system repair. I consider myself a lifelong learner and disciple of transformation.
If you are standing at a threshold and ready to do the work, I would be honored to be a witness to your transformation.
Qualifications
Executive, Business & Personal Coaching Certification
Irish Lifecoach Institute
Accredited by the International Coaching Federation
Toxicology & Detoxification Specialist
The Health Sciences Academy
Accredited by the CPD
MA Community Development
BA Political Science, Sociology & Philosophy
National University of Ireland, Galway
MSc of Psychology Arden University, UK
Currently completing. Modules.:
Behavioural Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Individual Differences & Mental Health
Lifespan Development
Social Psychology
Research Methods
Where do you come from?
As a trauma informed transformation coach, and space holder for those jumping timelines, my work sits at the intersection of psychology, somatics, and soul. I hold an MA in Community Development, a coaching qualification from the Irish Life Coaching Institute (accredited by the International Coaching Federation), and I’m currently completing an MSc in Psychology.
My initiation was forged through grief, addiction, and the relentless commitment to recovery. Through identity rupture and reconstruction. Through descent into shadow, Where the only way out - is in.
I am a warrior, mid-battle. Being Irish, I come from a long line of survivors. In this lifetime, I carry both the responsibility and the privilege of alchemising inherited trauma into personal power. I specialise in navigating the threshold - the crossing between darkness and light. The ancestral reckoning in the dark forest of the soul. The return. When it's time to shed the old self you've outgrown, but the new one hasn’t yet formed - this is where I meet people. I won’t show you the way. I’ll hold space while you light and curate your own path.
My work blends science and soul: weaving psychological insight, nervous system literacy, cultural awareness, and spiritual intelligence. This is not mindset coaching. This is identifying the unconscious program - and rewriting it from the highest self.
If you’d like to learn more about my philosophy, I’ve shared a personal blog post below. It’s not doctrine - it’s perspective. I offer it so you can get a feel for who I am as a human, because it informs my ability to understand and the quality of the questions I will ask you. The work we do together will be led by you, I will be in the passenger seat. I bring questions and hold the space for you to cut out the noise and access answers from your deepest self
My initiation to psychology and the need for detoxification have roots in early life. Sickness, death, and complex family dynamics fuelled by ancestral trauma were key themes. Being of the first generation of Irish people to not have active institutionalised oppression in my life, we have been tasked with the space to break the cycles. The recent stages of my personal path with healing and transformation have revealed the complexity and visceral presence of ancestral gifts, as well as curses in the form of unprocessed trauma.
The gifts come in the form of instinct, survival, resourcefulness, unquantifiable strength and intuition. Talents and intelligence encoded into our DNA. Being Irish, the curses were passed down in the parts of our parents who were brutalised in a school system of unimaginable cruelty against innocent children. As well as what was passed down to them, from the generations who came before who fought the British for eight hundred years. Our parents came from the social climate of the Magdalene Laundries and in my generation - the tides turned to strike the matches to burn that down. Oppression is like shame - its insidious. Being born into a line brutalised by trauma for forty generations, I work to make my contribution to the healing of the collective. By creating spaces for it to be revealed and felt. With deepest gratitude at the for the sacrifices of my ancestors who survived so that I can be here and be free to do this work. I honour them by making my contribution to my lineage of farmers, warriors, philosophers, druids, witches, pagans and poets by doing the shadow work, and holding space for you to do yours if you choose.
The detoxification of trauma will always be a work in progress. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) was a big step in my commitment to recovery. We are multidimensional beings of body, mind and soul. Toxicology of the body began with inheritance from our parents also and of course environment plays a huge factor. The good news is, there are natural methods to reconnect with our bodies and cleanse on every level, its with great pleasure that I get to facilitate this process in which you experience and keep the tools. I come from people who search for and share knowledge to empower the collective.
There is a crack in everything.
That is how the light gets in
- Leonard Cohen