Featured in the Global Dating Insights Women in Dating Special Report 2025

I’m proud to be included in the Global Dating Insights – Women in Dating Special Report to wrap up 2025, which recognises women contributing to the direction and development of the online dating industry GDI - Women in Dating Special Report.

2025 has been my busiest and most globally expansive year to date. Across the brands I’ve founded and developed, my work now spans international matchmaking, relational psychotherapy, education, workshops, couples work, individual work and media consultancy. I am supported by a global team of therapists, matchmakers, coaches and relationship specialists who work with my brand The Love Collective and Tailor Matched. I work with clients and collaborators worldwide, and increasingly with organisations looking to integrate psychological depth into how dating and relationships are approached at scale. This recognition is for my whole team, not just for me.

The GDI inclusion reflects the work I’ve spent over a decade doing at the intersection of international matchmaking, relational psychotherapy, and modern dating systems, since 2011.

Much of my focus has been on understanding why well-intentioned dating platforms and services often fail to produce sustainable relational outcomes - and what changes when psychological insight is properly integrated into how people meet.

Dating is not simply a product experience. It activates attachment systems, personal histories, loss, expectation and identity. When these factors are ignored, the result is not just dissatisfaction, but increased anxiety, disengagement and repetition of unhealthy patterns. This is something I see consistently in clinical practice and in work with people navigating dating later in life, after long-term relationships or divorce.

Technology has significantly improved access and choice, but choice without discernment is not the

same as clarity. Matchmaking - whether human-led, tech-enabled, or hybrid - becomes more effective when emotional literacy, nervous-system regulation and relational readiness are part of the process.

The broader value of this report lies in its collective perspective. It highlights leaders who are addressing safety, trust, inclusion and long-term relational outcomes from multiple angles: psychology, product design, community-building and curated matchmaking. This reflects where the industry is heading, and where it needs to continue developing.

For clients, the implication is simple: difficulty with dating rarely indicates personal failure. It often points to a lack of support at the psychological level. Understanding patterns, attachment dynamics and emotional responses changes how people date and whom they choose.

For industry partners, there is an opportunity to collaborate more closely with psychological expertise - not as an add-on, but as a core input into how dating experiences are designed and delivered.

My work remains focused on helping individuals approach dating and relationships with greater self-awareness, stability and intention, and on contributing to industry conversations that prioritise sustainable connection over short-term engagement.

Being featured in this report is a meaningful professional acknowledgement - and a signal that the next phase of dating innovation will require depth as much as scale