About Me

I trained as a barrister and spent the early part of my career in the courts before co-founding and building what became a rapidly growing successful law firm. For fifteen years I built success - by every conventional measure. Strong practice, good people, financial security, professional recognition.

Then came a day when I looked up at the clock and, for the first time in my working life, simply wanted it to be over. For someone who had always been last to leave - absorbed, engaged, with no interest in watching the clock - that moment was unmistakable. Something had shifted. The work hadn't changed. I had.

What followed was a combination of burnout and depression. My doctor told me I had been living on adrenaline for years. What remained when that stopped was not just exhaustion - it was the weight of sustained misalignment between the life I was living and the one I actually wanted.

What I did next went against conventional wisdom and every external expectation. I sold my share of a thriving business, stepped away from a fifteen-year career, and started again - this time as a professional poker player.

The decade I spent at the poker table was one of the most concentrated educations in performance, decision-making, and psychological pressure available anywhere. What separates consistently successful players from everyone else is the ability to make sound decisions under genuine uncertainty, manage emotional state under sustained pressure, and identify - and correct - the patterns in their own thinking that cost them money in real time.

That environment accelerated my understanding that the gap between knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it is not a knowledge problem. It is a subconscious programme problem.

I came back from both the depression and the poker table with a clearer sense of what I wanted to build. I trained and qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist because my legal background in brain and psychological injuries had given me a rigorous, evidence-based framework for understanding why this intervention worked where others failed. The neuroscientific evidence is compelling and was fortified by my own personal experience with coaching that used hypnotherapy as a modality for bringing about the changes in my patterns of thinking and performing that I wanted. I then qualified as a mentor with the Flow Genome Project, Steven Kotler's research organisation, whose flow state neuroscience and protocols  have been used for high performing organisations and individuals such as  Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Google, the US Navy SEALs, and Olympic athletes.

The result is the Life Architecture Method - a structured three-stage programme combining vision architecture, subconscious reprogramming, and flow performance elevation. It is the methodology I wished had existed when I needed it most. And it is built entirely from the inside out.