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

Many of the people I work with are carrying things they have never had language or permission to name. Disappointments that never counted as “big enough.” Roles they outgrew. Versions of life that never happened. Losses that are hard to talk about. Years of being strong.

Left alone, it’s easy to circle in the same loops in your head, relying on old strategies like stuffing things down, isolating, avoiding, masking, or over-functioning. None of us are designed to get out of these loops alone.

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

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 about things that feel risky or hard to name, including in political, high-pressure, or low-safety environments

• A need for a confidential relational space outside family, friends, colleagues, or AI tools
  (AI tools can be helpful for some things, but they do not hold a nervous system container)

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

• Realising their own experience is genuinely unique. There is no universal solution, but there is an opportunity to understand what is happening for them and work on responses that fit their wiring

• 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.

How we work together

This is coaching, not therapy. You will have a paced, relational 1:1 space where you do not have to manage yourself alone. Together, we slow things down enough to notice what is 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 range of tools), or simply through being present. It often feels 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.