My work draws on several evidence-informed disciplines, integrated according to what each client brings. The result is flexible and purposeful, not a pre-defined framework, but a rich approach that responds to you.
Psychotherapy provides the relational and clinical foundation of the work. Drawing on systemic, solution-focused, and person-centred frameworks, it creates the conditions in which clients can understand the patterns, beliefs, and experiences that shape how they think, feel, and relate to others, and begin to shift them. In practice, this looks like a carefully held conversation in which what has been hard to say or see becomes possible to work with.
A research-supported therapeutic technique, distinct from entertainment hypnosis, that uses focused, relaxed attention to work with the mind at a level that conscious effort alone cannot always reach. In a session, you remain fully conscious and in control throughout; the experience is closer to deep absorption than anything dramatic. It is particularly effective for anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, and patterns that have proven resistant to change through talking alone.
Developed through the Ericksonian tradition and the solution-oriented school of Bill O'Hanlon, strategic therapy is brief and future-focused. Rather than extended analysis of the past, sessions identify what is already working, build on existing strengths, and create practical pathways forward. In practice, it often feels less like therapy and more like rigorous, purposeful thinking-with. You leave with something concrete to take away.
Drawing on Adult Development theory, particularly the work of Kegan and Lahey on how adults transform their meaning-making, and eight years of full-time leadership and executive coaching practice, sessions support women in clarifying direction, navigating professional transitions, and making decisions that align with their values. In practice, this involves examining not just what to do, but the assumptions about yourself and your situation that are shaping your choices.
The practice is primarily focused on women, though enquiries from men, couples, and families are considered. Sessions are online and available worldwide. Below are the areas I work with most. If you recognise yourself in more than one, that is not unusual. These difficulties rarely arrive alone.
Anxiety, burnout & chronic stress
Often high-functioning women who appear to be managing well externally while struggling privately with exhaustion, overwhelm, or a persistent low-level anxiety that will not resolve. The body is sending signals the mind has been overriding for too long.
Trauma & difficult past experiences
Women carrying the effects of past experiences, whether acute or cumulative, that continue to shape how they feel about themselves, their relationships, and their sense of safety. This includes both recognised trauma and the quieter, harder-to-name experiences that have left a lasting mark.
Life & career transitions
Women navigating significant change, in role, relationship, identity, or direction, who want to move through it with clarity rather than react from uncertainty. This includes restructures and redundancy specifically, moments that look like a logistics problem on paper but land as a leadership and identity one in practice. A structured pathway for exactly this is the Threshold Framework.
Leadership & professional development
Women in leadership or moving into it, working through questions of authority, identity, and how to lead in ways that feel true to who they are, not just effective on paper. Often this involves dismantling the version of leadership they absorbed before they had a choice about it, and increasingly includes women rethinking what leadership or success should even mean for them now, not only those climbing toward the next title.
Relationship difficulties
Women navigating challenging dynamics in personal or professional relationships, including communication breakdown, conflict, recurring patterns, and the aftermath of relationships that were harmful. Sometimes the work is about the relationship; often it is about what the relationship is showing about something older.
A sense that something needs to change
Sometimes there is no single presenting problem, only a clear feeling that the current way of living is no longer working. A persistent flatness, a loss of direction, or a growing sense of incongruence between the life being lived and the one that feels true. That too is a meaningful place to begin.