About me.
I am triple certified and accredited Life, Health and Nutrition Coach with expertise in emotional intelligence, neuroscience, eating psychology and alcohol free coaching.
I have a warm, compassionate, empathetic and deeply intuitive nature and bring that to my coaching to create a safe and non judgmental space to explore your inner world.
As a highly sensitive person (HSP), I have a natural ability to deeply empathize with your experiences and emotions. This means I can truly understand where you’re coming from and offer support that is both compassionate and non judgemental. My sensitivity allows me to connect with you on a profound level, ensuring that you feel heard, validated, and understood throughout our work together.
My coaching approach goes beyond surface-level solutions, focusing on the deeper aspects of your personal and professional life.
Choosing to work with a highly sensitive coach means choosing a coach who will see you, understand you, and walk alongside you with empathy and care. Whether you’re looking to manage stress, enhance your emotional intelligence, or pursue personal and professional growth, I have the lived experience to deeply understand your challenges.
My approach.
Holistic approach.
Often the root causes of stress and burnout are much deeper than a busy job or hectic home life so as an integrative health practitioner my approach is focused on holistic health. I take a whole body approach so that my coaching can go beyond surface level solutions that just address symptoms.
My approach integrates foundations of my training in health and nutrition, coaching and therapeutic modalities with elements of eastern wisdom. Together we explore energy imbalances in the body and mind to empower you to replenish, reclaim and restore your natural energy levels.
My philosophy.
My philosophy is based on building self compassion, mindfulness and emotional intelligence. These I believe, are the cornerstones of resilience.
I meet you where you are at, our sessions are intended to be supportive and leave you feeling empowered to start to make the changes needed to pull you back from the brink of burnout. We work at a pace which suits you.
We will work together to create awareness of the sources of your stress and make small changes to so that you can successfully manage the root cause of your stress rather than trying to manage your emotional responses to it.
Throughout our time together I will create a safe, non judgemental, inclusive and compassionate space for you to explore your inner world, give voice to all of the things going unsaid and to unpack the heavy backpack you have been carrying around for so long.
Together we will create deep and meaningful change in your life.
Expert guidance and support.
I am a UKIHCA registered Integrative Health & Nutrition Coach, a IAPC&M Accredited Practitioner Coach, a Certified Mind Body Eating Coach and an Emotions Coaching Practitioner.
I'm experienced in supporting professionals to build their stress resilience so that they can show up to their work, teams and family with more energy, focus and emotional balance - without relying on unhealthy coping mechanisms like food, alcohol or overworking.
Mind Body Energy
My Mind Body Energy approach is based on the interconnectedness of the mind, beliefs, thoughts and emotions on the stress response, nervous system and physical body. Deep transformation requires energy so my approach is based on energy - how to create it, sustain it and protect it..
Mind Body Energy Roadmap.
Together we will create a sustainable plan for stress resilience that will form the foundations of your life way beyond our coaching.
Stress resilience requires a holistic approach to address all root causes of stress in your life. My unique framework is a fully integrated approach which supports a deep exploration of the spectrum of stress in your life. Everything which is draining your battery and keeping you stuck in chronic stress.
Sustained energy is key to thriving in all aspects of life.
The Stress Spectrum™ methodology is a mind body energy roadmap aimed at recharging your battery and moving you from stress, overwhelm and burnout to a calm, energised and resilient state.
Without a sustained and balanced source of energy our batteries become drained and our physical, mental and emotional health suffers. We ride an exhausting cycle of high and low energy fuelled by caffeine, sugar or other quick fixes and this rollercoaster ride can deliver us at burnout.
It is a fusion of integrative health and nutrition, psychology, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, holistic nutritional science and is informed by both my coaching experience and my professional development.
Learn how to nourish your body, mind and soul with nutrition and mindfulness
Learn mind body strategies to find your inner calm and reduce stress & prevent burnout
Learn how to harness your body intelligence to build physical, cognitive and emotional resilience
Gain emotional intelligence and develop a sense of connectedness
Develop curiosity and self compassion whilst exploring patterns of thoughts and behaviours which drive stress
Build confidence in setting boundaries & courage in speaking up
Strengthen intuition, clarity & decision making
Harness your creativity in exploring practical solutions which will have the greatest impact on reducing stress at home and work
Each step of the framework includes bespoke coaching and practical and actionable tools/techniques all aimed at managing stress levels.
Introducing.
The Stress Spectrum™ Holistic Mind Body Energy Approach to Stress Resilience.
How it works.
Restore.
Build a strong foundation
Deep transformation requires energy so we begin with replenishing and restoring physical, cognitive and emotional health.
We identify where stress is depleting you the most and focus on the foundational pillars of good health to create sustainable energy, specifically on adrenal health and stress recovery - nutrition, sleep and movement.
We explore some practical body based techniques to help with nervous system regulation, restore energy and start to build flexibility in your stress response..
Protect.
Set boundaries with confidence
Once we have worked together to replenish your energy levels we then move onto learning how to protect it and maintain a sustainable level of energy. Here we explore the patterns and beliefs which have been driving you towards burnout.
Building the confidence to establish and hold boundaries so that you can avoid people pleasing behaviours and overcommitting.
Being emotionally resilient is key to building stress resilience. We will work together to evolve your emotional intelligence to help you understand, regulate and respond to your emotions. Throughout you will cultivate a deeper understanding of your emotions and learn to recognise triggers and patterns that contribute to stress. You will also learn practical strategies to manage and regulate emotional responses so that you can shift from reactive to responsive behaviour.
We will also explore how suppressing or avoiding emotions have led to unhealthy coping mechanisms (food, alcohol etc) and build capacity to process uncomfortable emotions.
Liberate.
Break free from overwhelm
We work together to liberate you from behaviours which are driving your stress levels. Building your inner confidence so that you can start to trust yourself and make decisions which are aligned with the things which matter the most to you.
We explore behaviours such as perfectionism and procrastination and aim to create awareness of how these unconscious drivers are draining your energy and adding to the overload.
We also work together to overcome self doubt so that you are able to build your self worth, releasing the need to continually seek external validation through your work.
All of this aimed at strengthening self trust and reclaiming your personal power and autonomy.
Nourish.
Heal from stress inside and out
We work together to nourish yourself from the inside out. Nourishment of the body, mind and soul requires a shift in how we feel about ourselves, so we start with development of self compassion. We focus on relationships with both self and others and we process emotions such as guilt, shame and resentment to release them.
Throughout we explore how to make simple nutrition and lifestyle shifts for better energy and focus.
Express.
Find your voice
We work together to learn how to express your true needs. You learn how to ask for for help and what you need without guilt. Understanding our needs and learning how to meet them is a non negotiable for stress resilience, so together we explore how to strengthen your relationship with yourself so that you can meet these needs and not burnout through self sacrifice.
We will explore ways in which you can build your confidence both at home and at work so that you can set boundaries and protect your energy.
We will explore your identity and start to uncover who you are underneath the weight of all the demands of being a parent. What lights you up and how you want to spend the time you will have when you let go of the behaviours which are driving you towards burnout.
Calm.
Quiet the mental noise
We work together to calm your mind of overthinking and mental clutter. The cornerstone of my approach is mindfulness, so we develop your awareness of your thoughts and how they drive you towards behaviours which lead to increased stress.
I use a body based approach to calming the stress response, over thinking can be a result of under feeling so we work together to process emotions so that you can move though them and find your inner calm.
Together we build your capacity to stay present under stress and reduce the needs for the behaviours used to avoid emotions such as alcohol, food, scrolling.
I support you to develop your body intelligence and connect with your intution, build you mental clarity and make decisions.
Align.
Live in alignment
We work together to align and thrive. Integrating all the awareness and learning to build a sustainable and meaningful way of living and lasting resilience. Embedding all the tools and practices into a sustainable lifestyle.
Throughout the journey together we will have been exploring your values, your purpose and your identity so this final stage is focused on moving forward with a clear alignment with those towards a life which is filled with joy, happiness, fun, play, vitality and presence.
Also me.
It's fair to say that I love the simple and finer things in life, I love loose leaf tea from a tea pot with a bone china mug, Clean Sheet Sunday with beautifully crisp Egyptian cotton sheets, cashmere scarves, 85% dark chocolate....
I love food, I love eating and confession time...I don't particularly love cooking! So you won’t be finding any recipes on here. Cooking in my home is a messy and highly improvised affair and usually done in batches so I don't have to do it every day.
I have a degree in English and Communication and wanted to be a journalist until I actually spent a few weeks of work experience working at a local newspaper. The reality definitely did not match my expectations! I am fortunate to be able to enjoy my love of writing through my blog posts and rather lengthy social media posts.
I have worked in a wide range of organisations from the engineering, sales and marketing departments of a telcommunications company, a further education college and the University of Cambridge. All roles involved coaching and mentoring so it was the natural choice to be a coach.
I am a creative person, I find painting deeply relaxing and have an intimate working knowledge of Farrow and Ball paints. If we have the opportunity of working together you’ll see that I colour matched my website to my office paint!
I am a parent to an exuberant, curious and smarter than me 8 year old. I found becoming a mother for the first time aged 40 to be a deeply transformative experience, one which I have learned so much about myself and my own childhood. I bring this learning to my coaching, it helps me to really understand the challenges of parents.
I am a nature lover and am happiest by the sea, I reinvested my red wine fund on a paddleboard and swapped holiday hangovers with early morning paddles.
My story.
After two decades as a Leader in Education and Corporate organisations my health was failing me. My life looked great on the outside, I was successful in my career, beautiful home, gorgeous holidays, amazing friends and yet on the inside I was crumbling. Perfectionist tendencies had me continually striving at work, at home and across my entire life. The pressure felt relentless.
Abandoning myself and sacrificing my own needs to prioritise those of my family, friends and work colleagues. People pleasing and performing all the roles I had been assigned. Resentment simmering under the surface, boiling over and exploding all over anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity.
The anxious thoughts taking up residency in my head were deafening and I drowned them out with Malbec. The uncomfortable emotions trying to be heard, were stuffed so far deep down inside with food that I had become numb to any feelings.
In pursuit of perfection I had disconnected from life.
Maintaining this 'perfect' image came with a cost and that cost was my health. Behind closed doors I was teetering on the verge of burn out.
The burn out arrived after the loss of my Mum in 2020. My body had been trying to communicate to me, emotions were expressed as symptoms that I stuck a plaster on and carried on. Eventually, my body exhausted from screaming at me, simply said 'enough'. The physical and mental exhaustion was paralysing and forced me to stop and take an honest look across my life.
It was here that my journey into coaching started.
My credentials.
Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach (accredited with the UKIHCA)
Certified Mind Body Eating Coach (Institute of Psychology of Eating)
Emotions Coaching Practitioner (In Good Company)
Diploma in Life Coaching & Emotional, Behavioural Psychology (accredited with the IAPC&M)
Diploma in Neuroscience for Coaches
Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
Dryy Alcohol Free Coach
Practitioner of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) - Psychwire
I qualified as an Integrative Health & Nutrition in 2023 after training for 2 years with Active Health Group.
I am a member of the UK & International Health Coaches Association (UKIHCA). See more about the role of a Health Coach HERE.
I am accredited Life Coach with the International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring
