My calling as a guide to the inner wilderness began in childhood, and was forged through life-altering traumas that led me to believe there was something inherently wrong with me.  As a young adult I wandered aimlessly, seemingly without purpose or any real sense of who I was.  I moved through bouts of depression, imprisoning myself in a tight complex of deficiency stories that felt like despair.  In my late teens I turned to meditation to transcend my suffering rather than face my demons head on.  

At some point, however, Mystery called me to turn inwards to heal.  This launched a lifelong pilgrimage of deep self inquiry and spiritual wandering as I learned to question everything I had taken to be true about myself.  

Aided by plant teachers, human elders, Jungian writing, the profound wisdom of nature and, in time, the inner teacher, I tended my wounds, called in the lost, forgotten and disavowed parts of myself and awakened a deep sense of wholeness.

This path eventually led me into deep somatic and mythopoetic work in the wilderness — culminating in a vision quest in the wilds of Wollemi: a four-day solo and water fast, during which I underwent an initiation with soul. That earth-shattering encounter gradually restructured my psyche and my entire way of being, propelling me into a life of service — guiding others through their own inner wilderness to the truth at their centre.

Today I work as a somatic psychotherapist, ecotherapist, certified meditation teacher, Focusing trainer, and rites of passage guide. My practice draws on depth psychology, somatic inquiry, mindfulness, and the Kiloby Inquiry Method — a pioneering trauma-informed approach increasingly recognised as reaching the roots of anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and addiction.

Through Wild Reverence I offer private somatic psychotherapy and nature-based mentoring — slow, careful, embodied work that goes beyond the surface layer of stories and invites you into direct contact with the patterns held in your nervous system and body.

My broader nature-based work — earth-based trainings, rites of passage, and nature immersion programs — now lives within Ancient Ground, a nature-based mystery school I co-founded on Dharug and Gundungurra country in the Blue Mountains.

I am also a co-founder of the Blue Mountains Men's Group, born from a commitment to fostering kinship, connection, and cultural repair.