Transdisciplinary Researcher - MindBody Practitioner - Speaker

My work is rooted in a longstanding exploration of human consciousness, embodied experience, and the relationship between physiology, emotions, perception and meaning.

I hold a PhD from the University of Plymouth and have a background in transdisciplinary research, philosophy of science and consciousness studies. Today, I bring this foundation into my work with people experiencing persistent stress-related symptoms, emotional overload and complex patterns of physical and psychological distress.

What particularly interests me is how understanding can become an active part of change. Not simply through acquiring knowledge about the nervous system, but through developing insights that become personally meaningful, emotionally relevant and embodied in our lived experience.

This is where my research background and my current practice meet.

Beyond Regulation: Understanding, Embodied Insight and Change

In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the role of the nervous system in stress, trauma and persistent symptoms. This has opened important possibilities for understanding the connections between our physiology, emotional lives and experiences.

Yet knowing how the nervous system works is not necessarily the same as changing how we respond.

We may understand our patterns intellectually while still experiencing familiar physiological reactions, anxiety, emotional overwhelm or bodily symptoms that seem to arise automatically.

My approach explores what can happen when scientific understanding is brought into closer contact with our actual experience.

A central element is the relationship between renewed interoceptive experience — our perception of signals from within the body — and the development of a meaningful language for what we are experiencing.

When understanding and bodily experience begin to inform one another, new possibilities may emerge for recognising and gradually changing learned responses.

This is not simply about calming the nervous system. It is about developing a more coherent relationship with our physiological, emotional and conscious experience, including aspects of ourselves that may previously have been difficult to recognise or understand.

Research and Academic Background

My academic work began with questions concerning human subjectivity, consciousness, perception and the ways experience is shaped and transformed.

I completed my PhD, Subject and Aesthetic Interface – An Inquiry into Transformed Subjectivities, at the University of Plymouth in 2015. My research explored human experience through a transdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, aesthetics, science and technology.

I have also taught Philosophy of Science at Copenhagen Business School and contributed to international academic discussions on consciousness, communication and transdisciplinary inquiry.

My presentations include Toward a Science of Consciousness in Stockholm (2011) and Cybersemiotics workshops at Copenhagen Business School associated with Professor Søren Brier.

More recently, I have brought this perspective into dialogue with contemporary research on persistent physical symptoms, including a presentation at SYMPCA 2026.

Throughout this work, a recurring question has been how different forms of knowledge can be brought together without reducing the complexity of human experience to a single explanatory model.

This continues to inform my approach today.

How I Work

In my private practice, I work with people experiencing persistent stress-related symptoms and complex patterns of physical and emotional distress.

These experiences may include anxiety, depressive symptoms, heightened physiological reactivity, fatigue, bodily tension and other symptoms that affect everyday life and are not always easily understood through one perspective alone.

My work is individually adapted and draws on contemporary understandings of stress physiology, predictive processing, interoception, emotional learning and MindBody Medicine.

Rather than following a fixed sequence of techniques, I work with the individual’s particular experiences, understanding, emotional responses and capacity.

An important part of this process is carefully attuned relational guidance. Through sensitive reflection, shared exploration and gradual engagement with bodily and emotional experience, I support people in developing a clearer understanding of their own patterns and responses.

I am especially interested in how a new understanding can become a genuine personal realisation — something that is not only intellectually convincing, but also experienced and recognised within the body.

Change is not always experienced as immediate relief. Exploring familiar responses in new ways may sometimes bring uncertainty, difficult emotions or uncomfortable sensations. This makes pacing, discernment and respect for the individual’s limits essential.

The aim is not to push through symptoms or to interpret discomfort automatically as progress, but to support a process in which understanding, embodied experience and trust can develop together.

Connection, Meaning and the Capacity to Live

I believe that meaningful change involves more than symptom reduction.

Our relationship with ourselves is shaped by the ways we experience our bodies, understand our emotions, interpret our circumstances and make sense of our lives.

When these dimensions become disconnected, it can be difficult to recognise what we need, how we respond or what possibilities are available to us.

Reconnecting them can open a different relationship with ourselves.

For me, purpose is an essential part of this process.

Understanding why we are engaging in change, what matters to us and what kind of life we wish to participate in can provide meaning and direction, even when the process itself is challenging.

The aim is not to eliminate every difficult feeling or achieve a permanently regulated state. Human life includes uncertainty, vulnerability, grief and emotional complexity.

What matters is developing the capacity to meet life more fully, with greater understanding, flexibility, connection and agency.

Teaching, Speaking and Collaboration

Alongside my individual work, I communicate these perspectives through talks, experiential workshops and writing.

My work brings together philosophical inquiry, contemporary research and practical exploration, with an emphasis on making complex ideas accessible and relevant to lived experience.

I am particularly interested in contributing to interdisciplinary conversations about consciousness, stress physiology, persistent symptoms, embodied learning and the role of meaning in healing.

Through my writing, including The Self-Healing Paradigm, I explore how scientific knowledge and deeper human understanding can inform one another.

I welcome opportunities for speaking engagements, workshops, podcasts and collaborations with researchers, practitioners and organisations interested in developing more integrated approaches to human health and wellbeing.

A Personal Perspective

My interest in consciousness, human experience and transformation has developed over many years, across academic research, teaching, personal inquiry and practical work with people.

What continues to motivate me is the possibility of bringing these perspectives together in ways that make a genuine difference in people’s lives.

I believe that understanding ourselves more deeply can change not only how we interpret our experiences, but also how we participate in them.

And sometimes, what makes change possible is not another technique or more information, but the emergence of an understanding that finally becomes meaningful within our own experience.

This is the work I continue to explore.

Work With Me

If you are experiencing persistent stress-related symptoms or would like to explore how your physiological, emotional and conscious experiences may be connected, you are welcome to learn more about my individual work.

I offer a personalised approach that respects your circumstances, your capacity and the complexity of your experience.

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For speaking invitations, research dialogue or professional collaboration, you are welcome to get in touch.

My work is complementary and does not replace medical or psychological assessment or treatment. I do not diagnose medical conditions or promise recovery. Persistent or worsening symptoms should always be appropriately evaluated by qualified healthcare professionals.