Meet Owain — your guide to a better practice.

I qualified from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic in 2009, and left with the British Chiropractic Association's Leadership Award — an early sign, maybe, that I was as interested in how a practice is led as in the treatment itself.

I cut my teeth at the Waldegrave Clinic under Tom Greenway, at the time one of the UK's leading sports clinics, working alongside more than 25 practitioners in a busy multidisciplinary setting. It taught me how a great clinic really runs. Within three years I'd qualified as a Royal College of Chiropractic PRT trainer, and I've since mentored dozens of new graduates — as well as building my own patient-management and technique workshops, which I ran every year, in person and online, and sold out each time.

Then I backed myself. I started with a folding bench in my living room, driving it around London in the back of my car to treat patients wherever they were. I got so busy that I handed in my notice, took a room in an osteopathy clinic, and grew again until I outgrew that too.

So I did the thing that changes everything: I wrote a proper business plan and raised the investment to build something of my own. I found the premises, worked with branding consultants and architects, and hired nine people to start with me on day one. It was madness — and on 11 January 2016, Backspace opened its doors in Clapham. Passion, determination and a stubborn belief that it would work carried us, and it grew into a genuinely successful London clinic.

Backspace is where I learned the things I now teach: how to grow a practice, lead a team, and systematise everything so the business doesn't live or die by any one person. In 2018 I joined the British Chiropractic Association board as a director, helping to steer the profession nationally, and the clinic twice won both of the Royal College of Chiropractic's practice awards — the PPQM and the CMQM.

In 2021 I did something that surprised a few people: I began a master's degree in classical singing — my other great passion; typical Welshman. For two years I didn't treat a single patient, and the clinic paid me more than it ever had. That wasn't luck. It was the product of a brilliant team and the training I'd given them — and it proved, beyond any doubt, what a well-built practice can give its owner.

I returned to clinical work in 2023, now a part-time professional opera singer as well as a chiropractor, and in 2024 I decided it was time to sell. I spent a year getting everything in order, and in 2025 I sold the clinic for a very healthy sum. That same year I stepped down from the BCA board after eight years, and was awarded a Fellowship of the British Chiropractic Association — given to members judged to have made an exceptional contribution to the profession.

Outside the clinic, that same belief shows up everywhere I put my energy. I founded Big Gay Out, a community built to tackle loneliness, and I coach gay men on living fuller, freer lives through TheOG Coaching. Different rooms, same conviction: the work you do should serve the life you actually want — not the other way round.

Now I do the thing I love most: helping other practitioners get where they want to go. Whatever stage you're at — building, scaling, stepping back, or selling — I mentor and advise health professionals to run better businesses, and to build better lives around them.