I grew up in London with a Greek Cypriot father and a polyglot mother, surrounded by languages. For me, language was never just a school subject – it was a key that helped me understand the world.

That love of language took me far. I spent four years in Japan, over a year in Mexico, six months in Germany, as well as periods in Cuba and Malaysia. I lived and worked across cultures that couldn’t be more different from each other, or from London. I now speak five languages, including Japanese and Spanish, and I have raised my son bilingually. I understand the experience of finding your voice in another language – not just professionally, but personally and deeply.

When COVID arrived, I had been an English teacher, trainer and director of an English language school for many years. I made a decision that would change everything: to focus entirely on the thing I loved most about language teaching – pronunciation.

Before long, I realised that my clients were often asking for more than just help with how to pronounce sounds. I trained in Neurolanguage® Coaching (a brain-based approach that puts the client firmly in charge of their own learning) and founded Chat Naturally as the first accredited coach worldwide to combine British English accent coaching with this methodology. To understand spoken communication on an even deeper level, I completed a two-year Master’s degree in Voice Studies, qualifying with Distinction.

I kept going deeper, because I kept seeing what was possible – not just in terms of accent, but in terms of identity. For some clients, this work quietly shifts something much bigger: what they believe about themselves, what they think they’re capable of, how they feel they deserve to show up in the world. I find that extraordinary. And it’s why I love what I do.