Breathing Room

Achieve clarity and direction

Find your motivation, feel your joy

Feel lighter, prepared for change

Confidence Boosting

Ready for Life

You are capable of incredible positive changes!

Are you ready to begin?

Take a deep breath or two and start to imagine you are up a mountain, it's a nicely warm and clear day, and you're looking out onto beautiful scenery below. You see a path alongside a river curving around the countryside, weaving between trees, lakes, houses and hills. From up here it feels like an enchanting journey is calling to you. You can see the steps you will take and you want to get going. Far in the distance you can see something glinting in the sun, it represents your goal, the thing you want so much. You put your super-powerful binoculars to your eyes and there it is, right in front of you, you reach out and and touch it, it's incredible, wonderful, you're filled with happiness, confidence and joy; you've arrived. From here you now look back at the path you've taken, all the twists and turns, the times when you've felt like you can't go on, the times when the kindness of others kept you going, when the sun shone through the clouds on a rainy day; you look at all the work you put in to get you to where you are right now and you feel sooo good about yourself.

If you've immersed yourself in the story above and are feeling the calmness and warmth, open to the world of possibility and wonder, then your nervous system anticipates safety and is entering rest and repair mode, preparing you for your journey ahead - if you stay in this place long enough you will make positive changes to your body and mind... ready for the next step.

My coaching works by helping you to get into the calm when you need it, to feel the excitement of possibilities and tap into your motivation; giving you the energy to move forward and begin to write your next story.

Don't worry if this doesn't sound solution-focused enough... on your journey there will be plenty of opportunities to develop new skills and overcome hurdles. I believe it is possible, doable and perhaps enjoyable to have it all - the journey and the destination, the ups, downs and everything in between.

My style isn't the usual bish-bash-bosh of problem-solution-off you trot coaching... With me we can smell the flowers, taste the coffee, follow the buzz, speed it up, slow it down, do what feels right. We'll still get you to where you're going, but with the important added benefit of really experiencing life as it happens.

Change takes time - it can be a good few weeks of rewiring your brain and body to make simple changes such as sticking to an exercise programme... even longer if you are going to create powerful enduring thoughts and actions that make a big difference to the rest of your life.

Based on techniques that have worked for so many people, my three-step method can help you bring about significant changes.

First we take a step back and create some breathing room so we can explore your situation from a calm place.

Next we work out your key motivations that will unlock insights and give you the energy to take your journey on.

Finally we will design the map, with clear strategies that you can follow to help bring about core changes to your wellbeing.

Wellness is important. So important in fact that it affects our life in tons of ways. Wellness can include good thoughts, a healthy body, supportive relationships. Wellness is uplifting, refreshing and nourishing. Wellness can be developed by taking consistent action.

It begins with feeling safe, which enables curiosity, confidence, courage, calmness, playfulness and persistance. You can get stuff done and enjoy doing it. You can respond to difficult moments with more energy and focus.

With feeling safe comes changes to your nervous system; the body learns to relax, your cells can repair, the mind stops whirring a million miles a second.

When you're safe you can step back, take a deep breath and approach life from a different perspective - you can get clarity and direction about what's in your power to change, and how to change it.

My coaching helps you to create this incredible life-changing foundation of safety and calm. Then we can build in all kinds of fun things to do to create the life you want.

Wellness is what?

Imagine you're at the beach, you've just got in the calm water and it's warm. You've hopped up on your surfboard and you're catching a gentle wave towards the shore. It's easy, you're in your comfort zone and you're happy here.

But perhaps you want to challenge yourself to take on some bigger waves, or maybe you've found yourself out there where the sea is getting rougher and the temperature is cooling. This is the best time to learn and grow, you're coaching ready!

However, if it's really choppy out there and you're cold and miserable, perhaps you're just about hanging on to the board and keeping your head above water, then you may need some extra help. Coaching could still be useful, but if your situation is really difficult then you may benefit most from a therapist who is comprehensively trained in mental health survival methods.

Are you in the right place for coaching?