Performance has always been a big part of Kim's life, trying ballet, taking part in ballet, swimming, and equestrian sports from a young age, greatly inspired by her father playing darts internationally alongside Phil "The Power" Taylor before creating an International Mail Order Darts business, and her Grandfather whom was a professional racing jockey riding in the world famous Aintree Grand National five times. Kim's own competitive nature became apparent when the night before her first official equestrian competition at just 6 years old (riding for a private owner), she was adamant that she would win despite no prior experience, and the following day came home with two 1st place rosettes.

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At the age of 7 years old Kim was lucky enough to be given her first pony called Flossie, and with Mrs Helen Wegman as her trainer, it was not long before she went on to win many more 1st place rosettes and trophies. As Kim grew taller, her next pony Pepper helped improve her confidence in all riding club disciplines and was took Kim to the National Riding Club Championships for the first time, one competition being Pairs Dressage where Kim and Katie were the youngest pair to ever compete in this section at the Championships and came 2nd, losing 1st place by 0.5points. Loxley was Kim's third pony, he was simply fantastic and they competed and often won against adults in Show Jumping, and together they competed at all Riding Club Championships including Dressage, Dressage to Music, Show Jumping, Horse Trials and Hunter Trials. He was a Connemara so whilst he thoroughly enjoyed his jump work, his best move in Dressage was halt, however through Kim's passion for flat work, they constantly improved and became a force to be reckoned with. 

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      Kim then outgrew ponies and decided to focus on her love for Dressage with her first horse Bally whose sire was the famous Irish Sports Horse Clover Hill who competed in horse racing. By this point she was based at Cotton Equestrian Center in Cheshire where she was extremely lucky to witness many training sessions delivered by Stephen Clarke (FEI Dressage Judge General since 2013, BD Vice President since 2022), and he often gave her advice when he saw her riding. Kim had training from Sarah Rodger (International Trainer and Paralympic Dressage Judge), with Sarah commenting that Kim could one day make an excellent judge due to being naturally aware of the theory and practical understanding of dressage, and her professional approach to assessing performance. Kim went on to compete for North West BYRDS (British Young Riders Dressage Society) where she received Sports Psychology and Team Building training with the renowned Dr. Moira Lafferty, and did some work experience at the yard of Ferdi Eilberg (Team GB Head Dressage Coach at the time).

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Kim's Dressage career came to end following a neck injury at 15 years old, discovering the hard lesson that we are not invincible, and realizing she was having to reconsider her life options (and quickly due to A-Levels), it was a painful experience both physically and mentally. Discovering a keen interest in Intellectual Property Law, Kim went on to study BA (Hons) Law but due to the extensive studies causing aches and pains related to the neck injury, found herself attending many appointments with Sports Massage Therapists, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, and Sports Therapists. Upon graduation, Kim commenced her LPC (Law Masters) at Nottingham University and gradually saw her health deteriorate causing her to pause her full time studies and move back home to Cheshire. Whilst attending the many hospital appointments, Kim worked for a local Solicitor's firm and the family business. 

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      Fast forward to 2011, after attending meditation classes and with thanks to Bruce from Wrexham and the wonderful people in the group, Kim decided to take her body aches and pains into her own hands somewhat and made a career change back to sport but this time in Soft Tissue Therapy with the aim to work in Performance. In Sept 2012 Kim started studying for her Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapy with the world renowned NLSSM and became one of the first to graduate within her group by fully qualifying in Oct 2013. Within the same week she moved to Nottingham where she based herself at The Heathcoat Street Clinic in Hockley working with the highly regarded Physiotherapist Ms Rachel Burr, H3 Performance which was a gym who saw many elite athletes walk through their doors, and became Lead Therapist for Paviors RFC which is based within the wonderful Burntstump Country Park.

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Such a career became natural to Kim as it enabled her to combine her exceptional hand sensitivity (proprioception) and assessment skills developed from Dressage, analytical and communication skills from her studies in Law, and her overall passion for improving performance. It also meant that all those years seeing various Physical Therapists became benchmarking, enabling her to learn what made a 'good' and a 'bad' therapist, and then vowing to always treat how she herself would like to be treated. 

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Kim has now gained over 10 years experience as a fully qualified BTEC Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist specialising in Performance, and has been given many amazing opportunities, both national and international sporting events, working with some of the best in the world in an MDT environment, and gaining a clinic reputation that attracts not just people locally and nationally, but internationally including USA and and an elite athlete from Jordan. She finds the work highly rewarding, enabling people to achieve their aims and goals with confidence inside and out. Rarely needing to see people more than once due to her communication and treatment skills, many clients are surprised as to how easy it can be to resolve aches and pains, and most importantly, maintain it long term.

And lastly, Kim wanted to use her growing knowledge and wisdom, and ever growing network, to help answer questions regarding her own health including the neck injury and deterioration in 2010 - 2011. After lots of tests to confirm, Kim has been diagnosed with Ocular Myasthenia Gravis which is an autoimmune condition that effects the eyes but has the potential to become general and effect the whole body, and is now on immunomodulator medication for it. As a consequence, as of the end of the 2023/2024 rugby union season, Kim is stepping down from her Lead Therapist role at Paviors RFC to enable her to focus on her health and clinic work. Whilst this change is inevitably sad, she looks forward to the future and seeing where it takes her.

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No matter what you've been through, no matter where you've come from, there is always hope if you look at it in the right perspective and if you have passion, determination and a good heart, you will find a way to make it work for you.

- WHERE THERE IS A WILL -

- THERE IS A WAY -