Danielle Martin

Like many people leaving university in 2008, I entered the world of work through whatever paths were available rather than those that felt intentionally chosen. What I found was not direction, but systems, interlocking structures designed to manage people, risk, and distress. I began working in homelessness, substance use, and frontline care. Over the years I moved through hostels, outreach services, needle exchange programmes, and harm reduction work. Early in my career, I worked in one of...

I work as a sound healer, and alongside this I am currently studying a Master’s in Music Therapy. Holding these two worlds together has deepened how I think about sound, not only as an experiential or spiritual practice, but as something that actively shapes emotional regulation, nervous system states, and psychological change. Studying psychotherapy and clinical frameworks has drawn my attention to an important question that underpins all therapeutic work: how does change actually happen?...

Before I ever sat in a room talking about attachment theory, I worked in residential children’s homes. Real ones. With alarms, incident reports, night shifts, and young people whose nervous systems were permanently set to high alert. That experience has shaped how I read theory now, with curiosity, appreciation… and a healthy dose of scepticism. Alongside this, I’ve spent years working with sound healing, where regulation, resonance and non-verbal attunement are central. So when I started...