About

I’m a somatic coach, musician and photographer. Across all three, I’m interested in the same thing: what’s happening beneath the surface, and what helps people feel more connected to themselves.

I grew up in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, and have lived in London for the past 18 years. For more than 25 years, I’ve built a life around creative work. I’ve written and recorded music, toured, performed, released records, worked with other artists, built projects from scratch and navigated the uncertainty, pressure and visibility that come with making a living from something you care about.

That experience is a big part of why I became a coach.

COACHING

During Covid, I retrained and in 2021 began working as a Peer Mental Health Coach within the NHS, supporting people with their mental health and recovery.

Working one-to-one with people made me realise how much I valued this kind of work. I became increasingly interested in what sits underneath the things people are struggling with: the patterns we repeat, the ways we protect ourselves, the things we want but find difficult to move towards.

While working for the NHS, I completed 52 hours of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Clinical Practice training and trained as a Personal Medicine Coach.

In 2023, I gained an Accredited Diploma in Body-Oriented Coaching with the ICF-accredited Somatic School. In 2025, I completed a CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies.

My coaching brings these different experiences together.

MY MUSIC CAREER

Music has been a huge part of my life for more than 25 years.

I’ve written, recorded, toured and released music professionally since 2005, most recently as Bryde. I’ve worked across bands, solo projects, labels, publishing, management and DIY release, toured the UK, Europe and the US, and experienced both the freedom and the pressure of building a creative career.

My music has been played on BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music and reviewed by publications including The Sunday Times and Pitchfork.

But the most useful thing my music career has given me is not the list of things I’ve achieved. It’s the experience of what it actually feels like to build a creative life.

The pressure to stay visible. The periods when the work flows and the periods when it doesn't. The strange relationship between your identity and the thing you make.

That experience informs my work with artists today.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is another way I explore the things I’m interested in: people, identity, emotion, atmosphere and what sits beneath appearances.

I trained with the London Institute of Photography and have also studied at Central Saint Martins. My portrait work is about creating images that feel honest rather than overly performed.

Sometimes a photography session begins with a coaching conversation. Taking the time to think about what you want to express can change the way you show up in front of the camera.

THE THREAD THROUGH IT ALL

Although music, photography and coaching might look like very different things, there’s a common thread running through all of them.

I’m interested in people.

In what makes us who we are, what gets in the way of being ourselves, and what happens when we feel safe enough to be a little more honest.

That’s what I bring to my work, whether I’m sitting opposite someone in a coaching session, photographing them, or standing on a stage with a guitar.