With a background in Fine Art and art teaching, I qualified as an Art Therapist in 1985 at Goldsmiths College, University of London where I subsequently obtained my M A Art Psychotherapy. I am a Professional Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Art Therapists (ANZATA) and a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).

While living in London, I worked in a range of settings, including child, adolescent and adult mental health and private practice. I taught on the MA Art Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire. Now settled in Sydney, I have a private practice as an Art Psychotherapist and Supervisor and I work as a Visiting Tutor at the University of Western Sydney on the MA Art Therapy. My professional activities have included being on the committee of ANZATA, membership of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape, and being an advisor to the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Therapy (ANZJAT).

I have consistently been involved in my own art making since childhood. This has included painting and drawing; I currently make pottery.