My story

I’ve had a passion for personal development since childhood through certain family influences, and over the decades I’ve explored a wide range of tools and practices to enhance personal wellbeing.

As an adult, I’ve worked in a variety of sectors, including as a climate change consultant, a renewable energy project manager, running my own landscape photography business, and then for fifteen years within accountancy and finance & culminating in running a global metals trading business as a company director.

I often experienced the accountancy and finance work as stress-inducing, and I know first hand the potential impact of deadlines, workloads and responsibilities - what can seem like a relentless drive to do more, achieve more, unaware of the real cost of doing so. Shortly after starting work in this sector, I developed a chronic health condition, which I continue to manage to this day. 

To support my stress-management & anxiety during this time, I discovered a number of techniques which worked well for me, including breathwork, cold exposure, yoga, chi gung & meditation, and diet. I trained as a yoga instructor and started running workshops to share some of these skills with others.

I also started attending a Men’s group, a sharing space for men to be heard without judgement or advice-giving, and I drew great benefit from having this space in which to explore and share any topic of personal meaning, and to give and receive support with other men.

In combination with other therapeutic modalities such as family constellations, dance, and talking therapies, I started to learn more about myself and what was important to me. In time I became one of the facilitators for the Men's group, and I chose to embark on a two year Level 5 diploma in coaching, which I completed in 2025.

The above wellbeing tools all helped me succeed and perform well at work, however I became increasingly aware that my work passions lay more in supporting others on their journeys rather than the finance / directing a company work.

I spent some time reflecting on what this gift of life mean to me, how / where I wanted to invest my time and energy, and what things would bring me the greatest joy and pleasure of life. So in 2025 I chose to make some changes, and I stepped back from finance work to focus on supporting others in their journeys through coaching, mindfulness and meditation.

I also spent time reflecting on my own relationship with work, and whether I was comfortable with the priority I had placed upon work since being a child. I reflected on my own balance between being task-focussed, and just being, and noticed the impact of spending a lot of time in my head / task focussed on other areas of my life, including relationships, my own sense of wellbeing, and how much I felt "in the flow" with life. 

I discovered that I carried certain unhelpful attitudes around the importance of work to my identity and sense of self-worth, probably due to both the culture I was born in to, and my experience at boarding schools, and I started making changes to improve my own thoughts, feelings and behaviours around work. 

In 2025, I supplemented my coaching qualification with a Mindfulness teaching qualification, which I now offer as a standalone service, and also use it at times within coaching sessions. I also embarked on counselling training to further support my own development and to deepen the level of support I offer to others.

People that inspire me

INSPIRATIONS

Gabor Mate

For his work on exploring how our thoughts and feelings express themselves through dis-ease

Memorable quote:
"The next time you think your wife is a bitch you should be happy about it", meant by Gabor as a joke, referring to the advantages of expressing anger rather than suppressing it, and how it has been found that people (often women) who suppress anger tend to die younger.

Brene Brown

For her focus on utter honesty in certain emotions, notably shame, as being a doorway to freedom and to experiencing complementary emotions, such as joy.

Memorable quote, from Gifts of Imperfection:
"If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way—especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.
What I’m proposing is that we learn how to wade through it [the swamp]. We need to see that standing on the shore and catastrophisizing about what could happen if we talked honestly about our fears is actually more painful than grabbing the hand of a trusted companion and crossing the swamp. And, most important, we need to learn why constantly trying to maintain our footing on the shifting shore as we gaze across to the other side of the swamp—where our worthiness waits for us—is much harder work than trudging across."

Joe Dispenza

For his work on how focussed and emotion-full meditations can help you literally create whatever future you want.

Memorable quote - extracts from C3 of Becoming supernatural:
"The quantum field is an invisible field of energy / information / consciousness that exists beyond space and time ... the only way you can exist in the quantum is as an awareness ... when you pay attention to the energy of the quantum field, your consciousness is connecting to greater levels of frequency and information ... we simply exist as an awareness that is paying attention to a field of infinite possibilities existing within an even greater consciousness and a greater level of energy"
In meditations, Joe invites people to access this field through taking oneself into the infinite black space

Byron Katie

For her brilliant approach to help end suffering, based on four simple questions combined with a sense of presence, which can facilitate a revolution in thoughts and feelings.

Memorable quote: from I need your love, is that true p182 :
" "If my children died, I could go on living." Don't be half-hearted here. Ask yourself to imagine what you think is unimaginable: the life you could lead without your children. Be a traitor to misery and find some advantages to that life. There's nothing macabre about this. The point is to break the grip of a fearful belief. Find three ways in which your life would be better without your children... It doesn't matter if these three ways seem silly, as long as they are genuine. "I could have the first shower in the morning." "

Qualifications and skills

ABOUT ME

Mindfulness Teacher

Mindfulness Now accredited teaching qualification

Wellness Professionals at Work

Level 5 ADCT Integrated Diploma in Holistic life, wellness and resilience coaching

Mental Health First Aider

St John's Ambulance

Kundalini Yoga Research Institute

International Teacher Training Level One
Instructor in Kundalini Yoga

Qualifications

Coaching Skills

Cognitive behavioural coaching
Solutions focussed coaching
Mindfulness, & Mindful coaching
Journaling
Compassionate Enquiry
The work of Byron Katie
Coaching for self-esteem
Coaching for motivation & change
Exploring stress & the mind-body connection
Mood food and nutrition
Working with visualisation and imagery
Coaching for long term health conditions
Exploring personal triggers and interventions
Trauma informed coaching
Health coaching

Have any questions?

If you have any questions about the coaching services, feel free to contact us.