Coaching. We work with what's present in your life now (patterns, choices, how you respond). I don’t treat or diagnose mental health conditions. If something deeper comes up that's better held in therapy, I'll say so. The two often work well alongside each other.

Most of those give you frameworks to think with. Useful, but they live in your head. This work is about what actually happens when you're tired, triggered, or under pressure. And building the capacity to respond differently in those moments. Slower. But it stays with you.

Either. In person in Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, or online via Zoom. Some clients do a mix. All discovery sessions are held on zoom.

Sessions are minutes. We work on whatever's most present for you on the day. There's no fixed curriculum. Sometimes we work with a specific situation. Sometimes a pattern you're noticing. Between sessions I might suggest a small reflection or practice, but it's always optional and designed to fit around your life, not add to it.

Some things shift fast: clients usually a sense of relief, of being seen, of finally putting words to something.

Deeper change builds over the six months as you start responding differently in real life. And sometimes the most significant shifts come later — quietly, in your own time, long after our work ends. Some of what we do together is a seed that keeps growing.

I often hear from clients months or years after working together how the work is still resonating and rippling out into their lives.

Yes. We can split the investment across the six months. Email me and we'll work something out.

Life happens. We'll reschedule. I just ask for as much notice as you can give.

Yes. Anything you share in our sessions stays between us. The only exception is if I'm worried about your safety or someone else's — and I'd always talk that through with you first.

The free call is for exactly this. Half an hour, no pressure, no pitch. You'll get a sense of how I work and whether it feels like a fit. If it doesn't, I often have a sense of who might be. And I'm happy to point you that way.

Coaching isn't the right starting place when you're in an acute mental health crisis or already burnt out, you need clinical support first. If that's where you're at, please reach out to your GP, or in NZ you can call or text 1737 anytime. I'm happy to help you figure out where to start if you're not sure.