About Me

I am truly honoured you are here. I feel very privileged that you are thinking about connecting with me, and entrusting me to walk alongside you on your journey.

If you are here for Breathwork, I acknowledge how ready and willing you are to be taking this step to experience the sacred practice of Breathwork Mastery RBM with me.

If you are here for emotional support or connection, supervision or just to say “hi!”  I welcome you. 

I am the blessed mother of 4 precious children, two that I have the privilege of watching grow and blossom daily and two who didn’t get to stay here with me here earth-side, but who educate and connect me with a deeper layer of the unknown and help to expand my thinking about why I am here, and what my purpose is.  

I'm also a wife, a sister and a devoted daughter and granddaughter, working & playing on the land of the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation as a Child & Family Play Therapist in Melbourne, Australia and training in Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery to create an intentional way of living. 

Originally born in Tooting, London, in the UK, from English and French parents, and Italian and Mallorquin grandparents, I have travelled through many portals in an attempt to understand the reason I have been gifted this tiny slice of life. 

From early classical ballet dance training, plagued with low self confidence and injuries, I moved into studying acting, through a desire to make some kind of impact through touching others deeply. 

Described always as "a sensitive child" the continuous and perpetual experiences of repeated rejection or unsatisfying work, left me repeatedly recreating my limited core beliefs of "I am wrong" and "I'm not enough" which had me working in a multitude of varied jobs. From a dancer in dreadful nightclubs in Italy, barista and waitressing jobs when auditioning and injured, an illusionists assistant, and actor in Theatre in Education, (T.I.E) The quality and repercussions of these jobs often sent me into spirals of anxiety and depression.  

I continued in the entertainment industry for some time, working as Visual Effects Co-ordinator on the first Harry Potter movie, but finally changed my career path in my 30's due to feeling frustrated by the lack of fulfilment in the work. I knew I needed to be of service and be in a helping profession; I just didn’t know how yet.

I literally fell into working in hospitals as a Physio and Occupational Therapy Assistant where my job interview was literally to see if I could manage to screw a raised toilet seat onto the toilet bowl! I couldn’t….(as the thread on the screw was broken) but apparently my sense of humour around managing this predicament was what got me the job.

It was during working in this position in UK hospitals and the community, working with patients in rehabilitation on stroke wards, and in home services, that I started to recognise that being of service to others was where I gained the most purpose and passion, and I decided to go back to University for a second time to train as a Therapist.  

Person-Centred Rogerian Counselling studies and a deep interest in child development and attachment work, led me to Roehampton University and with a thirst for Post Graduate Qualifications in Creative Arts Therapies and Counselling I was able me to move into some fulfilling work as a Counsellor in UK schools, and develop and devliver “Sing & Play Workshops”for the UK Start Up initiative.

This further led me on to study Art Therapy at La Trobe Uni in Melbourne, where I was deeply moved by the teachings of Aboriginal culture and their devotion to land and country. I am so eternally grateful that my studies led me to this beautiful Mother land, which has now become my home.

My first job here in Melbourne, was with children who had experienced extreme accumulative harm and neglect and led me further into understanding mental health, child attachment and neurobiology with the incredibly rewarding studies in the modality of Child Centred Play Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy, Filial Therapy and now Breathwork Mastery (RBM) with The School of Breathwork, a beautifully gentle and restorative lineage created by Alakh Analda, where the use of intention setting is central to the practice, and activates physical sensations in the body that can be released and transformed, and where limiting core beliefs can be rewired, opening a pathway to taking ownership of life. Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery is a parasympathetic activation breath, that is subtle and relaxed, to allow for a broad range of experiences, unlike many styles of Breathwork that use mouth breathing that is hard, fast, sympathetic activation breath styles, and others that are nose-based, parasympathetic, styles of breathing.

I strive to be an authentic, genuine human, dedicated to my personal & professional development, constantly seeking to integrate, heal & honour my lineage, heal generational patterns and be the person & parent I intend to be.

I am embracing the beauty and power of Breathwork Mastery as it guides me towards creative intentional living, healing my nervous system, so that I can make new empowered choices in life and live my truest potential. 

If you are reading this, thank you for being here alongside me.  These are my ponderings, my existential quest for meaning making which is integral to my growth and I believe will lead to peace and harmony both within myself and for all.

With so much love, 

Sofia