About Me

My work covers a variety of roles focused on carers’ needs within the mental health field including:

• Media contact for “beat” (formerly Eating Disorders Association).
• Facilitator of the London Carers’ Group for those caring for someone with an eating disorder.
• Member of the Eating Disorders Executive Committee at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Member of the Carers’ Forum at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Carer representative at Clinical Governance meetings at Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service.
• Running Collaborative Caring Skills Workshops using motivational interviewing techniques. I have helped Professor Treasure at the Capio Nightingale Hospital, an independent psychiatric hospital in central London, and Gill Todd at Guys, a large NHS hospital in Southwark, South East London. I have also helped Gill with workshops at other carer groups and carer centres around the country.
• Inspirational speaker on carers issues surrounding eating disorders. Amongst other events, I have presented at an eating disorder clinic in Norwich to carers and staff, the Royal College of Nursing in London to professionals and carers, Canary Wharf during Eating Disorder Awareness week and to a mixed audience and Prison Officers and Governors in Rugby Warwickshire.