Before my professional role, I’m a human who understands what it’s like to feel completely overwhelmed by the world.

I’ve always been a highly sensitive person, and growing up the environments around me never really fit how I was wired. School, in particular, felt unrelenting. I spent my days holding it together, and my evenings and weekends isolating to recover. Underneath everything was a constant hum of pressure — to achieve, to please, to fit in. I lived with a deep fear of disappointing other people and learned early on to perform my way through life rather than truly showing up as myself.

I pushed myself hard academically, often at the expense of my own needs. I got into a top university to study languages, but I fell apart in my second year. At the time I didn’t understand what was happening, but looking back, that crash became a turning point — the start of my journey back toward myself.

I found occupational therapy first because it offered me a sense of freedom, and later it deepened my understanding of what it truly means to belong, to live authentically, and to find meaning in the things that matter most to us.

I believe that one of the most important lessons we can learn is how to care for ourselves holistically—nurturing our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing—by learning to listen to ourselves, trust ourselves, and let go of the need to measure our worth through other people’s eyes.

My journey shapes the way I work today. I help young people do the very thing I needed back then; to understand and value themselves completely, and feel at home in their bodies and minds.