Safe and Sound Studio
Mentoring for humans who want to live and work in alignment
Welcome.
You are in the right place if you care about your inner life as much as your outer success.
You might be an artist, a founder, a healer, a teacher, a professional in a more traditional field, or someone whose path does not fit into a neat label at all.
After more than twenty five years working as a full-time musician and artist on several continents, I began to notice something that cut across cultures, careers, and life stories.
Underneath the different job titles and passports, people kept asking the same quiet questions.
- Who am I really when I am not performing a role?
- What is my work actually for?
- How do I stay true to myself without burning out or checking out?
Whether I was touring, recording, teaching, or sitting with students and peers backstage, the pattern was the same.
We were all circling around the same core themes: identity, purpose, belonging and integrity.
Over time it became clear that the “downloads” and wisdom that music had given me were not limited to artists.
The skills I had to develop to survive as an independent creative — deep listening, presence, navigating uncertainty, honest reflection, disciplined creativity are the same tools that support any thoughtful human being who wants to live a life that feels aligned.
Safe and Sound Studio grew out of this realisation. It is the quiet umbrella for my vocation agnostic mentoring work.
I work with people who are ready to look at the deeper patterns underneath their habits, goals, and relationships, and to gently reorient their lives around what actually matters to them.
If you are looking for someone who understands both the inner landscape and the practical realities of building a life’s work, this is where our paths might meet.
What I Can Do for You
I work with the concrete inner and interpersonal capacities that shape how you move through your life, especially during moments of transition:
• Identity — clarifying who you are beneath roles, expectations, or old versions of yourself.
• Communication — saying what you mean, asking for what you need, and reducing unnecessary conflict.
• Intercultural communication — navigating differences in language, nuance, and emotional coding when you move countries or work across cultures.
• Cultural integration — making sense of yourself in a new environment so you don’t lose your centre while adapting.
• Relationship-building — recognising patterns, strengthening boundaries, and creating connection without self-abandonment.
• Self-care — restoring your nervous system through grounded, sustainable practices rather than performance-based “wellness.”
• Somatic resets — simple, body-based techniques to regulate, downshift, and come back to yourself when things feel overwhelming.
• Burnout recovery — rebuilding inner capacity without recreating the same loops that led to collapse.
• Clarity — cutting through fog, indecision, and emotional noise so you can see what is actually true for you.
• Presence and space-holding — when what’s needed most is a calm, attuned witness and gentle, qualified feedback that helps you access your own insight.
The work is specific, grounded, and tailored to the person in front of me.
Learn more about my mentoring
“Creativity is not a rare ability. It is not difficult to access. Creativity is a fundamental aspect of being human. It’s our birthright, and it’s for all of us.”--Nick Rubin
And in that spirit, even if my mentoring page speaks to artists, you may find you belong there too, because the deeper work of identity and purpose is universal.
And we are all artists.
Safe and Sound Studio is an evolving home for this wider, human-centred work.
How to Proceed
I work with a sliding scale because the people who find their way here are not cut from one cloth.
Some come from corporate leadership, some from teaching, wellness, tech, the arts, and others from paths with no clear name at all.
The common thread is not status, but sincerity.
There is no fixed template, no tiered programme, no one-size-fits-all promise.
The work is tailored to the person in front of me, and the stage of life they are standing in.
If this feels like the right kind of conversation for where you are now, the next step is simple.
Reach out, and we get on a call to see whether the fit is real.
Alignment is the currency here — everything else follows from that.
