I started my career as a nurse, where I began researching sexual health at King's College London (KCL), and latterly how we might improve working conditions in the NHS for the benefit of both staff and patients at the Policy Institute at KCL. After working as a nurse in acute medicine, and then in the community, I completed my MSc in psychology at the University of Westminster.

After graduating, I held a research assistant post at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at KCL, where I led the qualitative side of the global IDEA project, aimed at investigating whether and how we may identify and prevent depression in adolescence in the UK, the USA, Nigeria, Brazil and Nepal.

Following this, I received an ESRC-funded position to start my PhD at Goldsmiths, investigating what the effects of mindfulness might be on parental stress and children's wellbeing. I am partnered with the Headspace app to do these PhD studies. In July 2020, I moved to UCL with my primary supervisor, Dr. Bonamy Oliver. And during this time, briefly returned to clinical practice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where I worked as a research nurse on the Oxford vaccine trial in London.