I am a writer, mentor, and former Church of England priest. For more than two decades I have worked with people navigating the most demanding terrain of human experience: grief, loss, faith, doubt, transition, and the slow work of becoming more honestly themselves.

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My background is unusual. I trained in Applied Theology at the University of Oxford and spent years in ordained ministry, working at a senior level in the institutional Church. I understood from the inside how much the structures we inhabit can sustain us, and how much they can constrain us. My own life was reorganised, unexpectedly and painfully. What followed was a gradual dismantling of assumptions I had not known I was carrying, and a slow rebuilding of a spiritual life that was genuinely mine.

That experience did not make me a better theorist. It made me a more honest companion.

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I now work one-to-one with thoughtful people in midlife; those who are high-functioning in the world but privately living with something unresolved. Many have been through a significant rupture: a bereavement, a breakdown, a loss of faith, a marriage that ended, a version of themselves they can no longer inhabit. Most have found that conventional therapy addresses one dimension of their experience, and traditional religion addresses another, but neither quite holds the whole of it.

That is the space I work in.

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I am also an Independent Celebrant, officiating at funerals, weddings, and other significant life transitions. And I am the author of Love, Lose, Live: How Accepting Mortality Teaches You How to Live.

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This is serious, unhurried work. I work with a small number of people at any one time, and I take it seriously.

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Explore My Work:​

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• Private Mentoring — one-to-one work for people carrying something unresolved.

• Books — Love, Lose, Live and further writing on mortality, conflict, and estrangement.

• Celebrancy — funeral, wedding, and life transition ceremonies.