I didn't come to this work from the outside. I came from the inside.

For over 25 years I worked across the Asia-Pacific — as a government official at AusAID, then as a senior adviser to DFAT, the ADB, and major bilateral programs across Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. I led gender equality and safeguarding work at scale. I built secondary trauma prevention into the architecture of a $175M program. I was embedded in some of the most complex, high-stakes environments in international development.

And the whole time, I was quietly struggling with the same things my clients struggle with now.

People-pleasing. Self-doubt. Over-functioning. Carrying more than was mine to carry. Being successful on the outside while running on empty on the inside. I tried therapy. I tried a lot of things. Some of it helped. Some of it didn't move anything.

What finally shifted wasn't a single breakthrough. It was a slow accumulation — nervous system work, trauma healing, money healing, spiritual practice, and the gradual realisation that the patterns I was living weren't personal failures. They were learned responses to the systems and environments I'd been operating in. Once I understood that, everything changed.

What I bring to this work

I am intuitive in a way that is hard to explain but easy to experience. I tend to see the pattern underneath the pattern — the thing that's actually running the show before anyone has named it. I ask the question nobody else thought to ask, and something shifts.

I'm also a recovering people-pleaser who still catches herself sometimes. My journey is not finished. I'm not standing at the top of a mountain telling you how to climb — I'm walking alongside you, further down the path, learning as I go.

I work with people who are carrying a lot — in their work and in themselves. I work with organisations who want their people to thrive, not just survive. And I bring the same rigour, the same intuition, and the same honest attention to both.

Credentials

• Master of Development Administration, Australian National University

• Graduate Diploma International Studies, University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Adelaide

• Diploma in Community Welfare Work

• Certified Trauma and Resiliency Life Coach — Arizona and International Trauma Institute

• Certified Trauma of Money Coach

• Co-Chair, Self-Care Circle, Society of Gender Professionals

• 25+ years of experience in international development across the Asia-Pacific

Outside the work

I'm Australian, living in Arizona with my husband and three dogs. I garden, I travel when it feeds me rather than depletes me, and I try to spend as much time in nature as possible. I write a daily affirmative prayer on Substack. I believe in the sacred in the everyday — in ritual, in stillness, in the intelligence of the body.

I built Resources Reimagined because I wanted a different way of working — one that doesn't require self-abandonment. That's what I'm offering you too.