Education

Here you’ll find information about my education and academic background

  • PhD Poetry and Ecolinguistics (in progress) 

    University of Gloucestershire

    Writing to enchant relationships with human and more-than-human others

  • MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction)

    Keele University, 2025 

    Dissertation: Cloud Elegies and Mountain Songs: Grief and wonder in an age of ecological crisis 

  • MMus Composition and Musicology (Distinction)

    Royal Northern College of Music, 2022 

    Dissertation: Ethical Listening: Sonic symbiosis and the rights of sounds and sound sources 

  • BMus Composition (First)

    Royal Northern College of Music, 2021. 

Continuing professional development

  • Diploma in Ecotherapy (in progress, 2026)

  • Narrative Therapy (2025) 

  • Understanding and Applying Parts Theories (2025)

  • Working with Blind and Visually Impaired People (2024)

  • Touch in Psychotherapy (2024)