Beginning as a Diagnostic and Interventional Radiographer across the full spectrum of hospital care, including ER, surgery, outpatients, critical care and post-mortum imaging, I trusted the medical model: scan the problem, see the problem, then fix it with medication or surgery. It seemed logical and complete.

After working with hundreds of thousands of people, reviewing their scans, and assisting in thousands of surgical and pain procedures across London's premium private clinics & major trauma teaching hospitals, one truth became undeniable: scans and surgery did not always explain or resolve chronic pain.

Severe structural findings frequently presented without symptoms, while technically flawless operations often left patients in persistent pain. That disconnect didn’t shake my faith in medicine, it redirected my curiosity.

If the structural model couldn’t always explain or resolve chronic pain or persistent health dysfunction, was something fundamental missing in how we understood chronic problems?

Years of Buddhist study with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, alongside intensive Vipassana meditation and competitive sports, gave me a visceral understanding of how mindset, emotions, movement, diet, sleep, life events and daily habits shape our health, pain, illness, performance and recovery - factors often overlooked by Western medicine.

Driven to understand the mechanisms behind these connections, I pursued functional and mind-body medicine, becoming an Osteopath, Medical Acupuncturist, and Rehabilitator. Over the following two decades, I immersed myself in continuous study, completing fifteen distinct postgraduate trainings
to refine my ability to treat the whole person.

My central London clinic gained recognition for Back Pain, but those with chronic painMy central London clinic gained recognition for Back Pain, but those with chronic pain had unpredictable outcomes. The missing pieces emerged as my practice shifted more into systems-based therapies, e.g Pain Reprocessing, Metabolic and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Chronic pain and health problems are far more responsive when treated at this multi-dimensional, mulit-system level. 

The pandemic created an unexpected breakthrough.
In 2020, COVID forced my clinic online, a necessary pivot - tying my hands by removing every physical treatment I had relied on for 20 years. Working exclusively with systems, metabolic, neuroplastic, psychological and somatic approaches, I expected outcomes to suffer. They didn’t. Chronic patients in particular showed significant improvement, challenging my long-held assumptions about the necessity for structural physical treatments.

Then came a personal catalyst: hearing details of the shocking outdated medical advice and ineffective care my own family in rural areas were given for chronic pain, autoimmune, and metabolic conditions. That personal and clinical collision clarified my next mission: to build Chronos, a virtual clinic integrating three decades of diagnostics, functional medicine, pain neuroscience, and rehabilitation into one recovery system - accessible to anyone, anywhere who intuits the body's capacity to heal given the right conditions, and is ready to act, with safe, practical interventions for tangible results.