Welcome

The common word is ‘coaching’ but I prefer to think more along the lines of thought partner, trusted companion, objective friend or soulful guide.

I am trained to help you to talk, reflect, understand and resolve your biggest concerns in life - personal, professional or soulful.

It’s for you, dear heart!

Perhaps you've reached a point where something is asking to grow and evolve. Perhaps you know exactly what it is. Perhaps you have absolutely no idea.

You might be in the second half of life, your ‘Act Three’ navigating a change in work, relationships, identity, faith or simply your sense of yourself.

You don't have to arrive knowing what you need. We walk the path together.

Everyone belongs here.

Like all the wisest things in life, it’s really rather simple:

• We have a free, 30 minute chat.

• We decide to work together.

• We meet for planned conversations or ‘sessions’.

• You talk. I listen. I ask important questions.

• You come to a better understanding of your life.

• You start making your best decisions.

• You start living intentionally.

• Eventually, you no longer need me.

  All conversations are confidential.

That’s always your choice:

• We meet in a safe and quiet room where you can speak all your thoughts and feel all your feelings unhindered.

• We meet online via Zoom.

• We meet over a coffee or hot chocolate (perhaps cake).

• We walk and talk in nature - probably my favourite option.

We all have different financial considerations and circumstances and I believe in equitable pricing. I want to remain accessible to everyone who needs my work, not the most wealthy.

Payment covers my time and training. My interest, care and compassion are given freely.

I also offer 15% of my hours pro bono to certain education and charitable sectors with whom I work.

Again, you decide.

You might just need one conversation, you might prefer many.

Some clients pay a retainer to meet once a month indefinitely.

Some pay for six sessions upfront in a one-off payment.

Some prefer to pay at the time of booking each session.

Sessions vary from 60 -120 minutes.

There is flexibility to best suit your needs. We will discuss this together.

Clients tell me that they immediately feel safe and at ease.

Everyone belongs.

I am warm, smiley, calm and sincere.

What you see is what you get.

Having previously been a teacher, senior leader and safeguarding lead for over 20 years, I care deeply about people and concerns from all walks of life. Conversations are confidential.

I am a very good listener and I ask very good questions as a result.

I’m not a silent partner; the balance is probably that you talk 80% and I talk around 20% of the time.

Perhaps you can tell me!

I am settled into my me-ness.

I am completely comfortable with silence, tears, questions, ranging emotion, confusion and grief. Whatever you bring is welcome. I brought it all before you did.

I’ve been called an ‘old soul’. I think there is much wisdom in nature, literature, mysticism and the ancient ways of living and being. I always keep them close.

I value contemplation, imagination, storytelling, paradox and metaphor.

Clients often say that they trust me deeply and immediately - they comment on this because it is a rare experience. They often stay in touch out of choice long after sessions have ended.

This is not my main source of income. It is a means of offering something I know to be meaningful to others. There is no hustle, no marketing, no profiteering, no snake oil and that’s a promise.

Alongside the lived experience I bring to this work, I have trained and worked extensively in education, coaching, mentoring, safeguarding, leadership and spiritual guidance.

PGCert in Coaching and Mentoring Practice (Level 7) from Oxford Brookes University.

Designated Safeguarding Lead in Education.

BA (Hons) Anthropology & English

NPQH - National Professional Qualification for Headship

Coach and Vocations Advisor to potential Ordinands in the Church of England.

Coaching, mentoring and spiritual companionship with Christilience.org

Outreach and Access Team Manager at St John’s College, Oxford University.

Being Profile™ Self Discovery Course Scholarship - Ontological Coaching.

If you have any questions, please do ask.