Areas of Focus

My teaching and research explore experiences that challenge conventional understandings of the mind, sitting at the intersection of psychopathology, meaning-making, and identity. These areas demand both clinical sensitivity and theoretical nuance, and invite sustained reflection on the human condition.

I have particular interest in:

• Psychosis and altered states – approached not only as clinical syndromes, but as complex and often intelligible responses to fragmentation, trauma, or existential rupture.

• Spiritual crisis – where disintegration or transcendence resists simple categorisation, raising questions about the boundaries between pathology and growth.

• Eating disorders – examined as embodied expressions of psychological and cultural distress, shaped by identity, trauma, and relational dynamics.

• Trans identities – exploring gender as lived experience and psycho-social process, with attention to affirmation, development, and symbolic meaning.

A Pedagogy of Depth and Ethics

These themes shape an integrative and ethically grounded approach to teaching, one that encourages students to think critically, reflexively, and with emotional depth about clinical realities.

My teaching emphasises:

• Personal and relational reflection

• Thematic dialogue informed by diverse psychological traditions

• Experiential engagement with theory

• Meaning-making over performance

Anchors for Curiosity

• The lived landscape of psychosis and altered states

• Spiritual crisis as threshold and transformation

• The symbolic and relational dimensions of eating disorders

• Trans identities and the unfolding of selfhood