Trauma-informed relational coaching

I bring over 20 years of experience supporting adults through complexity, transition, and stress. My work is informed by trauma-informed coaching, nervous system awareness, somatic embodied approaches, adult and vertical development, the Narrative Enneagram, and PCC-accredited coaching.

This is deeply relational work. I am not a therapist, and I do not offer clinical diagnosis or treatment.

Who this work is for

This work is for curious, thoughtful, sensitive, and responsible people who reflect, explore ideas, and often navigate life on their own. Many use AI or other tools to make sense of things, but insight alone is rarely enough.

You might feel burned out, stuck, lonely, confused or under pressure. Left alone, it’s easy to circle in the same loops in your head, relying on old strategies like avoidance, masking, or over-functioning. Our brains are not designed to get out of these loops alone.

This work offers a steady, relational space to ground yourself first, so recovery and growth can emerge. When your nervous system feels safe, curiosity, insight, and new perspectives naturally follow.

Needing support doesn’t mean you’re broken. It usually means you simply haven’t had enough relational support yet.

What people bring

People come to this work for many reasons. Common themes include:

• Feeling stuck in thinking loops or self doubt, even with lots of insight

• Burnout from carrying responsibility without a safe place to land

• Pressure, stress, or loneliness in leadership or high-responsibility roles

• Difficulty talking openly in political, high pressure, or low safety environments

• A need for a confidential relational space outside family, friends, colleagues, or AI tools

• Realising they need additional tools, new perspectives, or different frames to support growth or next steps in their work or career

• Having done a lot of personal work already, yet still feeling stuck and alone with it

• Being highly sensitive or deeply caring, and feeling the weight of others’ expectations or emotions

• Life or identity transitions that are hard to name or make sense of alone

Beneath these themes is often a longing to feel steadier, clearer, and more confident again. Not because everything is resolved, but because there is enough internal and relational support to meet what is here.

How we work together

coaching, not therapy. You’ll have a paced, relational 1:1 space where you don’t have to manage yourself alone. Together, we slow down enough to notice what’s happening in your body, your patterns, and your inner world, while staying oriented toward self-understanding, compassion, clarity and confidence.

Sometimes deeper patterns appear. When they do, we explore them together, at a pace that feels safe. Change can happen through insight, experimentation (I bring a wide array of tools), or simply through being present with you. It often feels a little magical, more like osmosis than effort.

Between sessions, there is space for brief written reflections or check-ins if that feels helpful.

Next step

If something here resonates with what you already know in yourself, you are welcome to book a short, no pressure conversation to explore whether this kind of support would be helpful.

Or if you are looking for how I work with organisations, you’ll find more information here.