A clinical career, a measurement-led practice.
I've been in clinical practice since 1997 — twenty-nine years spent learning to read what the body and brain are actually telling us.
I came into this work through sports science. My early years were in elite-level Rugby League in Queensland, where I learned that performance and recovery are nervous-system stories long before they are muscular ones. That idea has shaped everything since.
I followed my father into chiropractic, focussing early on Tonus Neurological technique and Bowen-based manual therapy. The more I worked, the more the brain and nervous system drew me in. That led to postgraduate study in functional neurology and certifications in qEEG brain mapping, neurofeedback, biofeedback, and anxiety education.
The Healthy Brain Clinic in Geelong and Camperdown grew out of that work. What kept me here was being able to see how the brain is actually functioning — and how much of daily life shifts when it is dysregulated. Every case I see makes me want to reach more people, and help more of them find clearer thinking and steadier brain function.
I practised martial arts for forty-five years and founded Vital Force Aikido in Geelong, Victoria, where I served as Head Sensei. The teaching role has wound down, but the lessons it gave me stayed. Aikido taught me what no textbook could: that the nervous system reveals itself in movement, in breath, and in how a person meets pressure.
