Mum was a Psychologist and I followed in her footsteps. After obtaining my registration in 2001, I pursued qualifications as a Board Approved Supervisor (AHPRA) for Psychologists. While I continued working with the Brotherhood of St Laurence across their employment services programs, Monash University reached out an invited me to supervise their Master of Psychology students. It was rewarding work. 

In 2007, I obtained my Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and spent time working with companies such as Work Solutions, Medibank Health Solutions, Centrelink. My roles included teaching medical and allied health professionals how to assess the impact of medical and psychological conditions on functioning, training teams in clinical interview skills and clinical report writing, engaging with the Social Securities Appeals Tribunal about cases, providing supervision to psychologists who had had complaints brought against them via AHPRA, providing supervision to psychologists who had been selected for Medicare audits, and more. 

In 2020 I released my registration as a Psychologist and moved into the counselling space. Around this time, Psychologists and Social Workers began reaching out to me for business coaching for their private practice. I completed various coaching qualifications and then introduced business coaching as a service for practitioners. Within a short space of time, my diary was mostly business appointments with practitioners and things have grown from there. 

My biggest passion is helping women in business and for a few reasons. Growing up below the poverty line in Melbourne, reliant on handouts from charities and seeing what mum went through after my father abandoned her with their six children (I was the eldest and had just turned 12) left a mark. I've also witnessed many women leave employment to care for children or for aging parents. While their partners continued to earn, receive pay rises, bonuses and add to their superannuation, these women missed out. They found themselves needing to catch up. But returning to work after a break can cause doubt, impact confidence and lead to things like imposter syndrome. This can lead them to undercharge, experience discomfort marketing their services and struggle to build financial freedom. So, I'm about helping them with their marketing, to put systems into the business that run mostly on autopilot, to build financial safety and to use the business not only to help clients but to elevate and expand their own lives too. It's why I stay on the leading edge of technology. I believe that by equipping women with the latest skills and strategies for example, by integrating AI into their business, that they get to be leaders instead of playing catch up and can build their financial future. In my experience, one of the dominant reasons women practitioners struggle in business is because they haven't acquired business skills. Education is everything. I see teaching women how to market, how to business plan and how to create financial safety all in a way that's congruent with their values, is part of my role as their business mentor.