Born from the Body, Shaped by Curiosity:
The Playful Couple Story
My work grows from a lifelong curiosity about how people change and connect. It invites you to explore the space where art,
science, and love meet.
As a performer I learned what it means to be in flow, to let go of conscious intention and trust the body to speak directly to others.
As a painter and choreographer I discovered another kind of listening, one that hears creative whispers and then shapes them into form. Improvisation became the bridge between the two, a space where presence and structure could meet.
In my late teens I became curious about Taoist energy work, and that interest in how people heal led me to study Thai massage in Thailand in my twenties. Working closely with the body revealed how much emotion lives in our physical form and how every system has its own rhythm.
That curiosity deepened into formal study. Through Timeline Therapy I learned how the mind can revisit its own story and create new meaning from the past. Hypnotherapy taught me how language and imagination can soften resistance and open space for change. Craniosacral Therapy showed me the quiet intelligence of the body, how the smallest release can shift an entire emotional landscape.
Each practice carried its own revelation, yet together they kept pointing to the same truth, that healing happens when we listen, not when we force.
Working with young people carrying complex trauma, I came across Polyvagal Theory. It helped me understand the science behind what I had already felt, and it deepened my respect for the intelligence of the nervous system as both protector and guide.
Alongside these experiences grew another thread, the search for understanding. I have never believed that truth sits neatly inside any single system. The universe feels too complex for that. What I could trust was awareness itself, the act of paying attention. That curiosity led me to study NLP, exploring how language and behaviour shape the stories we live by and blending this with the study of mindfulness and stress reduction to understand how awareness itself can transform experience.
In my forties I wanted to explore change from another perspective and completed an MA in Leadership and Change. It gave me a framework to research transformation and measure what genuinely makes a difference. Each study added another way of seeing the same question: how does change really happen.
Yet behind all of this learning was my own search for love and growth. I began to realise that the more I understood myself, the less I could compromise the way I needed to be loved. I have learned that when we begin to unlearn the weight of what we once held as true, life starts to move with more ease. This is also true in relationships. As we soften the old ideas of how love should look, we begin to create space for how it can actually feel.
For a long time I did not see how these threads belonged together. It was a client who noticed first, saying that my way of working felt both creative and deeply regulating. That moment made everything click. The Playful Couple was born from that realisation that healing, creativity, and understanding are not separate. They are different expressions of the same movement toward connection.Today my work continues to evolve through that blend of art, science, and human insight. The Playful Couple is not a technique. It is a way of seeing relationships as living systems that grow through curiosity, humour, and compassionate awareness.
For most of my life two worlds shaped how I understood people and change. One was creative, a world of theatre, dance, painting, and improvisation where freedom and connection came alive through movement and expression.
The other was about healing, exploring the intelligence of the body, the patterns of emotion, and the mystery of how transformation happens from within.It all started when I first discovered improvisation at eight years old during a school assembly and felt something open. It was a doorway to expression, timing, and connection that I have carried ever since.
