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Breathwork is an ancient practice that has gained momentum in modern day wellness settings. It is an umbrella term which captures all forms of breath related explorations and a powerful body-based approach to well-being. I specialise in a conscious connected breathing technique which is a deep diaphragmatic practice that uses the entire respiratory system.

Breathwork practices have been passed down through a long lineage of ancient teachings including Eastern Yogic traditions. These span thousands of years and encompass a variety of spiritual, religious, and ceremonial practices. These include rituals connected to nature, mythology, philosophy, and healing.

I work with a technique that draws inspiration from rebirthing and holotropic breathwork. Rebirthing breathwork is credited to metaphysical teacher Leonard Orr who in 1962, explored the profound impact of conscious breathing on emotional healing. Holotropic breathwork delves into non-ordinary states of consciousness and was first discovered in the 1940s and developed in 1974 by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof M.D. and his late wife Christina.

My practice includes teachings from other modalities including energy medicine, emotional freedom technique and somatic release. I facilitate breathwork within a therapeutic framework I developed called Applied Pattern Integration. Drawing on depth psychology, transpersonal practice and somatic approaches, it offers a structured yet adaptive process for identifying and integrating unconscious behavioural and relational patterns. I am further influenced by Irish Breathwork and ancient Celtic Shamanism, both of which hold a place within my family heritage.

Research confirms that breathwork alone can positively influence a wide range of diseases and critical functions related to stress hormone levels, inflammation, muscle tension, blood flow, immunity, diabetes, arthritis, and autoimmune diseases. Breathwork is a sustainable practice that can support the nervous system and offer relief from chronic stress whilst promoting deep relaxation, healing and expanded consciousness. It can nurture self-compassion, provides connection to your inner guidance, strengthens resilience and supports the reprogramming of any repetitive and painful beliefs, and stress patterns.

During a breathwork journey, you'll typically lie down to breathe, unless specific accessibility needs suggest an alternative. Once comfortably settled, you close your eyes and begin the breathing technique. This is accompanied by personalised playlist. I may speak at times and stay silent at others, following what the session needs.

Even in a non-ordinary state of consciousness, you can engage with me and return to a natural breathing pace whenever you choose. You are always in control. The Breathwork journey begins once you connect to your breath and continues for as long as the connected breathing pattern is sustained. The duration varies among individuals and typically, a Breathwork journey spans between 45-90 minutes., though this varies. Every session is guided by what is right for you on the day. No two journeys will be the same.

The Breathwork journey begins once you connect to your breath and continues for as long as the connected breathing pattern is sustained. The duration varies among individuals and typically, a Breathwork journey spans between 45-90 minutes. It can be also be shorter when tailoring to individual needs. Your experience is always guided by what is right for you on the day and can be different again at your next session.

Far from being a passing trend, breathwork is a well-established evidence based practice. Breathwork has gained recognition and adoption by prominent organisations including Navy Seals, and the All Blacks, who have all incorporated breathwork to enhance employee performance and emotional well-being. The power of breath lies in its ability to transform your physiology, contributing to emotional resilience, nervous system support, holistic healing and so much more.

Applied Pattern Integration is the therapeutic framework I created so that breathwork could be held within a sophisticated clinical container. This distinction matters.

Breathwork on it’s own is a powerful modality. It accesses layers of the human psyche that talk therapy often cannot reach, emotional material stored in the body, formative patterns operating below conscious awareness, and dimentions of experience that exist beyond ordinary thinking. But what determines the depth and lasting quality of an outcome is not the breath alone. It’s everything it sits within.

Applied Pattern Integration provides that framework. Rather than spending years talking around what happened, we go directly to what’s underneath it. Together we identify the patterns that have been quietly running your life, the stories, beliefs, and behaviours that formed in response to earlier experiences, often long before you had words for them. We acknowledge that they once made sense. And then we gently release the need for them to remain.

Each session is scaffolded from the ground up. Tailored questions designed specifically for you help orient your experience toward what wants to move. Between sessions, personalised practices continue the integration process in your day to day life. The word applied reflects this honestly. This is not theoretical, it is responsive and built entirely around you. No two sessions will be the same.

The breath opens the door. Applied Pattern Integration is what you walk through it with.

Integrative Breathwork is a conscious connected breathing practice facilitated within the Applied Pattern Integration Framework. It is not a standalone technique.

Conscious connected breathing is a deep diaphragmatic practice that uses the entire respiratory system. It enriches the body with oxygen and energy, revitalising our often depleted systems, and supporting our natural capacity to heal and restore. What makes this breathwork integrative is not the technique itself, it’s what surround it.

Where Applied Pattern Integration identifies and surfaces the patterns, stories and beliefs running beneath conscious awareness, the breathwork journey is where the mind and body meet. These are not separate processes. They work together, one opening what the other deepens.

The breath accesses layers of the human psyche that conversation alone cannot reach. Emotional material held in the body. Formative patterns beneath conscious awareness. Dimensions of experience that exist beyond ordinary thinking. When the body feels safe enough to move through these layers, shifts happen that are immediate and lasting.

Each breathwork journey is designed entirely for you, informed by everything that has been identified and explored in the work that proceeds it. This is not a generic breathing session. It is a precisely held, therapeutically scaffolded experience. The word integrative means your session draws on multiple therapeutic traditions, woven together with intention and clinical precision, in response to you specifically. Applied Pattern Integration is the framework. Integrative Breathwork is where you feel it.

Most Breathwork sessions offer a technique and a space to use it. This is valuable, but technique alone has it’s limitations.

What makes how I work so unique is the therapeutic container built around the breath. Before your breathwork journey begins, we are already working, with what you’ve brought, what patterns we are identifying, and what your psyche appears ready to meet. The questions you receive from me are designed for you specifically. The approach I use is responsive to you in real time, with the ability to easily pivot to work best with you.

Underpinning all of this is specialist training and experience, with over two decades of frontline therapeutic practice with people navigating complex human experiences. A regular breathwork session can move something within. An Integrative Breathwork session will safely access and work with the layers beneath the layers.

Clients often arrive having tried other modalities, sometimes for years. What they notice when working with me, is that not only does something shift, but that they now understand why, and the positive outcomes remain.

My clients encompass a broad spectrum of people including business leaders, professionals, public servants, entrepreneurs, social workers, first responders, educators, creatives, musicians, as well as government organizations and NGOs aiming to develop leadership skills, focus on wellbeing, and expand their creative processes. I work with clients seeking a wide range of outcomes as well as clients whose experiences may include grief and loss, addiction, homelessness, sexual adversity, and family violence.

Good marketing does not equate to good practice. Breathwork is currently unregulated, which means anyone can call themselves a Facilitator or Training Provider without formal breathwork training, qualifications and related experience.

Always ask about the facilitator’s credentials, client screening, scope of practice, knowledge and understanding of contraindications, referral pathways, professional supervision, ethical standards, commitment to learning and development, confidentiality and privacy.

A professional facilitator will always prioritise client care and safety above everything else.

I am committed to ongoing professional development through continuous learning and regularly complete additional trainings to complement my role as a Practitioner.

I engage in professional supervision with a registered social worker and coach to ensure that my work is consistent with best practice and ethical standards.

In the event you require additional specialised support, I can provide referral pathways to other professionals and work within a multi disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care.

Breathwork is a powerful practice which must be facilitated by someone who is trained and qualified.

It is a R18 practice which carries some contraindications (a diagnosis or condition where a practice is not recommended). Please read the Terms & Conditions on this website for a comprehensive list.

Breathwork (or breath holds that can cause light-headedness) must never be practiced when driving or operating machinery.

Breathwork or breath holds must never be practiced in extreme hot or cold temperatures or in water (including bath tubs, showers, spas, pools, ocean, saunas, ice baths and any other body of water not mentioned here) or in any other place or environment where it might be dangerous to faint.

Breathwork or breath holds must never be practiced when working with sharp objects or partaking in any other potentially hazardous activity including immediately following a breathwork session. It may take some time to ground and integrate so please plan accordingly.

I am currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. I run private sessions by appointment from a beautiful mid century space, which overlooks a large secluded garden surrounded by bush and inhabited by native birds. Off street parking is available.

I am also available to travel to wherever you are located.