I've been singing almost as long as I've been speaking. I did my first performance at five, which sparked a lifelong love of musical theatre. I fell properly in love with the voice when I started taking lessons as an adult and got curious about why the method worked so well.
That curiosity changed everything.
After moving to Edinburgh in 2010 I started studying with an IVA teacher, got completely hooked on how the voice actually works, and in 2012 took the leap into becoming a certified instructor. Over the next ten years, I built a teaching practice rooted in musical theatre, performance technique, and the stage fright work that kept showing up in almost every student I worked with.
In 2019 I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters of Research in Music, specialising in performance anxiety in singers, graduating with Merit. That research deepened something I'd already suspected: the voice isn't just a technical instrument. It's a mirror of the nervous system, the emotions, and the creative identity. You can't really separate them.
Breathwork came next, and when Breathing Space found me it was a natural extension of everything I'd been working on. I qualified as a Breathwork Facilitator in 2024, mentored on a group training in 2025, followed by qualifying as a Breathwork Teacher in 2026, and haven't looked back. Breath is where the voice and the nervous system meet, and once I understood that I couldn't unknow it.
