FAQ — Working Together

I offer transformative, trauma-informed coaching for professionals who are experiencing burnout, emotional disconnection, emptiness, or a loss of direction.

This work supports senior professionals who are outwardly functioning but inwardly struggling, often after years of responsibility, performance and self-suppression.

My approach is reflective, embodied and relational. It focuses on:

• present-day patterns
• nervous system regulation
• identity, meaning and self-leadership
• integrating insight with lived, embodied change

It is not about quick fixes or surface-level performance optimisation.

This is coaching-based, trauma-informed work, not psychotherapy.

While the work is psychologically informed and sensitive to the impact of trauma, it does not involve:

• treating mental illness
• diagnosing conditions
• revisiting or processing traumatic events in depth
• working directly “in” unresolved trauma

Instead, we observe how past experiences are showing up, in your nervous system, relationships, identity and choices, and we create safe space to support regulation, integration and agency in the present.

Where a different form of support would better serve you, this will always be named openly and respectfully.

Being trauma-informed means working with an understanding that many patterns, such as anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-responsibility or emotional numbing, are adaptations learned in the face of perceived danger or adversity, not flaws.

It also means:

• prioritising emotional and nervous system safety
• working at a pace that respects your capacity
• avoiding re-traumatisation
• supporting choice, consent and autonomy

Trauma-informed does not mean trauma-focused therapy or processing traumatic memories.

This work may be a good fit if you:

• are a senior professional experiencing burnout, emptiness or loss of meaning
• feel disconnected from yourself behind your professional role
• are functioning outwardly but struggling inwardly
• are curious about how earlier experiences may still be shaping your life
• want depth, reflection and integration rather than surface solutions

Many of my clients work in education, health, law or other responsibility-heavy environments.

In some cases, people benefit from parallel support.

If it becomes clear that psychotherapy would be helpful, either alongside or instead of coaching, this will be discussed openly and respectfully.

With your consent, I can:

• support you in finding an appropriate psychotherapist
• work collaboratively (where appropriate) alongside therapeutic support
• remain within my scope while ensuring you are well supported

Your wellbeing always comes before any particular way of working.

I work with how trauma manifests in the present, not with the original traumatic events themselves.

This includes:

• nervous system responses
• triggers
• emotional patterns
• internal protective strategies

We do not revisit, relive or process traumatic memories in depth, as this can be unsafe outside a therapeutic context.

There is no fixed agenda or formula for sessions.

We all bring unique personal journeys and experiences that have shaped the way we present ourselves now. I aim to respect and honour this by co-creating a bespoke approach that is suitable, appropriate and flexible to each person’s circumstances and goals. I therefore do not offer set programmes or standard sessions.

However, I do subscribe to several core values that are true in all my coaching sessions with clients. Sessions are:

• one-to-one
• confidential
• calm and structured
• responsive to your needs on the day

Depending on what is present, sessions may include:

• reflective dialogue
• somatic awareness and regulation
• parts-based exploration
• gentle inquiry into beliefs and identity
• periods of silence or grounding

There is no pressure to perform, disclose or “get it right”.

Consistent with my response to the previous question, we co-create a coaching journey that is a unique and bespoke experience. Therefore, I operate within the following parameters as a guideline only:-

• Standard session: 60 or 90 minutes (we’ll discuss what will work best when we first meet)
• Frequency: I usually find fortnightly sessions work well
• Pace is bespoke and revisited as your needs evolve

Where appropriate, I may suggest hypnotherapy techniques to support:

• deep rest
• nervous system regulation
• insight
• releasing unhelpful patterns

Hypnotherapy is always:

• collaborative
• consent-based
• paced carefully
• focused on safety and agency

It is never imposed and is not a core requirement of the work.

I offer Insights Discovery personality profiling, which many clients choose at the start of our work together.

This is optional and offered as an additional element. It can provide a useful and powerful insight and framework for understanding:

• conscious and less-conscious preferences
• internal tensions
• habitual ways of operating under pressure
• approaches to healthy relationship building

There is an additional cost for this, which would always be discussed in advance. It is helpful for some clients, but not essential for everyone.

You’re welcome to start with what I describe as a private, confidential discovery conversation.

This is:

• not a commitment
• not an assessment
• not a sales conversation

It’s simply a space to pause, reflect and explore whether this work, and working together, feels right for you.