About Nic:

Nic is a queer person who trained as a medical doctor and has worked in the NHS for the last 9 years, training in anaesthetics, intensive care and emergency medicine. She also worked for different humanitarian organisations between 2016-2018 providing healthcare for refugees in different settings. 

Over the last few years, she has felt frustrated at the state of the NHS and healthcare in the UK. Working in the fields of anaesthetics and intensive care has informed the way she thinks about health and healthcare and is certain that we are never getting to the root causes of disease.  Not only are we forgetting the social determinants of health: systemic oppression, racism, housing, education, work and jobs which lead to chronic stress and inflammation, we are also not making useful healing modalities available that are important for health maintenance.

Over the last few years she has become interested in different modalities but two things that have struck her interest are sauna and breathwork. Since 2022 she has volunteered as one half of the medical officer role for the British Sauna Society. She is keen to collaborate and work together to bring these modalities into the NHS building on research, governance and education to make them more accessible.

Nic believes that in order to give people the tools to be well, we must also address systemic oppression and we can not do one without the other. She believes in embodied social justice, and in October 2024 is starting a course with Staci Haines - The Politics of Trauma 2.0. She has begun the ongoing process of decolonising her practice in 2024, and moving forward is aiming for a decolonial framework to be at its core.

This year (2024), she has stepped away from her role of working as a doctor within the NHS and she is looking to combine these tools with what she has learnt with breathwork and a decolonial lens, to focus on individual and collective healing.