Welcome!

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I've spent most of my life trying to understand people.​

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That journey has taken me from psychiatric wards and research laboratories to investment banks and university lecture theatres. Along the way, I qualified as a registered mental nurse, earned a degree in psychology, completed postgraduate studies in both organisational and clinical psychology, and finally a PhD in Personality Psychopathology from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, with a particular focus on anti-social, narcissist and schizotypal personalities. I was also personally trained by the late Professor Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco, to detect the fleeting facial expressions that betray concealed emotion. People are wonderfully complicated—which is probably why I've never stopped being curious about them.

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I've worked as a psychiatric nurse, psychologist, management consultant and university professor across the UK, New Zealand and Australia, in settings as diverse as the UK National Health Service, FTSE100 companies, MBA classrooms, research institutes and private clinical practice.​

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For years, I wrote academic papers about personality and human behaviour. These days, after recently completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of York, I’ve started writing psychological fiction and drama instead.

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After a lifetime studying people, I now get to invent them.

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