Find Your Way Back
1:1 Coaching Programme
Find your way back to yourself after burnout and disconnection - without performing recovery you don't actually feel.
What if…
…you actually understood what's been underneath all of this, not as a theory, but as something you could finally name and work with?
Imagine having a conversation where you don't edit yourself before you speak. Where you don't check whether what you're feeling is too much, too complicated, or too hard to explain before you say it out loud. Where the version of you that doesn't quite fit the capable, reliable, together person everyone else sees is actually the one who gets to show up.
Where instead of crashing in private and holding it together everywhere else, you have somewhere steady and welcoming to bring what's actually coming up, as it comes up.
Where you start to understand the patterns that have been running things, like the over-responsibility, the difficulty resting, the pull to keep going even when you're exhausted, not as personal failings, but as things that make complete sense given what you've been carrying.
Where you slowly begin to rediscover who you are now, beyond the role of the reliable, competent one. Beyond just getting on with it. Beyond a version of yourself built around managing something that was never meant to be managed alone.
And where, gradually, your life starts to feel genuinely yours again, not because the weight has disappeared, but because you're no longer organising everything around it.
Let’s get real
Something underneath has been running for a long time. And the frustrating part is that the skills and strengths that got you here - the responsibility, the reliability, the ability to keep going, the willingness to put others first - are probably making it harder to address.
What made you successful might now be holding you back.
You're used to solving things. Working harder. Pushing through. Those strategies have worked until now. But this isn't just a workload problem. It isn't a time management problem. It’s not necessarily a system or environmental problem.
And it doesn't respond to the same approach that's got you through everything else. And that’s super disorienting and infuriating, when you're someone who figures things out.
To everyone else from the outside, you're coping. Functioning, often well - maybe too well.
Keeping things moving for the people around you.
You look like someone who has it together.
But underneath there's a persistent flatness. An exhaustion that rest doesn't fix. A sense that something specific is off, even if you can't name it clearly enough to address it.
An unsettling awareness that you've been going through the motions of a life that looks fine on paper but doesn't quite feel like yours.
What makes it hard to address isn't that you're not self-aware. You probably are, so you know something isn’t right, no matter what you do.
It's that the usual approaches, like adjusting habits, pushing through, getting on with it, haven't touched it at the root. Because what's been driving your burnout and disconnection hasn't been properly named or tackled yet.
And so you keep functioning. Managing. Holding it together for everyone else. While silently wondering if this is just how life is now, but your heart breaks a little when you let that in.
I’m here to tell you it isn't. And you don't have to keep carrying this alone.
How I’ll support and guide you
Find Your Way Back is a three-phase, structured but flexible 1:1 coaching programme.
Through six sessions over three months each phase builds on the last, while still responding to what's most present for you.
Phase 1 - Create space
Acknowledge what you've been carrying, the disconnection patterns and drivers, without judgement. Build enough steadiness to engage honestly with what's going on without shutting down or flooding.
Reduce the overwhelm and self-blame that comes from living on autopilot or avoiding what hurts.
Phase 2 - Reconnect
Begin to understand why the patterns that developed, like the over-responsibility, the perfectionism, the difficulty asking for help, the inability to rest without guilt and so on, make complete sense given what you've been through.
And start to separate what's actually you from what you built around the obligations and urges to prove yourself. Who are you, beyond being the reliable, capable one?
Phase 3 - Move forward
Integrate what's happened as part of your story, without re-organising your entire life around it.
Translate insight into realistic decisions, routines and boundaries. Feel how life widens again, not because the load or pain has disappeared, but because you're no longer managed by it.
What you’ll receive
Six 60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions
Held over Zoom, usually every two weeks. Each session is shaped around what's most present for you, within the three-phase structure. We go at your pace with no pressure to cover particular ground before you're ready. You’ll need a quiet, comfortable space with minimal distractions so we can focus on your needs without interruptions.Support between sessions
Light-touch support via email or WhatsApp for questions, wobbles or check-ins. Usually within 1–2 working days, so you don't have to hold everything until the next session.Creative and reflective exercises
Tailored reflection prompts, art-based or visual exercises, and body-based practices, where relevant and wanted. You choose what feels safe and useful. Nothing is forced.Nervous system and habit support
Guidance on building gentle, realistic habits that support your nervous system, sleep, focus and energy, grounded in neuroscience and behavioural science, not perfectionism or unrelenting hacks.Resource library
Curated articles, tools and references on high-functioning burnout, hidden losses, identity and values and nervous system regulation amongst others, so you can understand what's happening and why.
Why work with me?
As a neuroscientist, art-based coach and former corporate leader in financial services, I understand (from the inside) what it means to carry a lot internally while still functioning at a high level on the outside.
My dad died during COVID. A month later, my freelance coaching project and corporate contracts ended. I took six months out after being overwhelmed with grief and loss, then got back to coping on paper with a new job, back-to-back meetings, and long to-do lists. I seemed to be flying but within, I felt numb and totally disconnected.
It took me a while to understand that what I was managing wasn't just burnout from overwork, even though that contributed. It was the accumulated weight of loss, identity shift, and patterns I'd built around everything I was juggling long before he died.
Coping patterns, like overthinking, people-pleasing and perfectionism, that didn't shift until I addressed what was actually underneath, honestly, with the right support.
Throughout that process, three things made the real difference:
Understanding the neuroscience and psychology of what was happening (so I could stop assuming I was failing),
Using creativity and art to reach what words couldn't (so I could see what I was carrying),
And having somewhere to bring the genuinely complicated and conflicted feelings, the ones I'd been censoring because I wasn't sure they were allowed.
Those are the things I bring to this experience to help you avoid the years of pain and hurt I didn’t need to.
With me, you get:
Honesty that doesn't dress things up, and the ability to sit with the complicated, contradictory, hard-to-admit stuff without flinching or rushing to fix it. Trust me, over the years, I’ve heard a lot.
A genuinely different way of working, based on real neuroscience to understand what's happening in your brain and body, creativity and art (including creative sessions and exercises, where that's useful) to bring forth what is hidden from our conscious awareness, and somatic practices to work with your nervous system and body rather than against it
Support designed for the tired, overloaded version of you from someone who has survived it, not the version who has energy and motivation and time. The version who is carrying a lot and needs things to actually be manageable and realistic.
Why now?
There is no expiry date on what you're surviving. You don't miss your window to give it proper attention and support.
But left unaddressed, high-functioning burnout doesn't stay still. It shapes how you show up in relationships, including the ones that matter most.
It makes decisions harder and rest less restorative. It narrows what feels possible, what feels like it's for you, what feels worth wanting.
Not dramatically, usually. Just slowly and insidiously, in the background, costing something every day and making you feel empty inside.
Starting this process now doesn't mean forcing yourself to resolve things faster than feels right. It means:
Giving yourself a space to tell the truth about what this has actually been like.
Understanding what's been driving the coping patterns and symptoms you've been trying to fix.
Letting your life gradually widen again, rather than sticking to what you believe works when you deserve so much more than that.
You're allowed to want more ease. More honesty. More room to breathe.
Even while it feel like you’re watching your life instead of enjoying it.
This is for you if…
You're responsible, talented, hard-working. You've gone over and above, done all the right things and self-sacrificed to get to where you are.
But something has shifted, and now you're confused, frustrated, and privately scared about why it doesn't feel right anymore.
You might be here because of one, or more, of these experiences:
A loss of a loved or significant one
Maybe through death, anticipatory loss (dementia or serious illness), or estrangement, whether recently or years ago.
The ripples of this pain or disruption don't follow a timeline. You may have kept going at the time because you had to.
But the impact is still there and driving your coping patterns and habits now.
Life disruptions that brought losses or changes
A relationship ending, a career shift, a health change, or even a version of your future that's no longer available.
The external event may have passed, but something lingers.
The internal adjustment, like who you are now and what you want now, was never given space or updated by what you believe to be true in this new reality.
Earlier losses or challenges that never got processed
A parent or caregiver who wasn't quite emotionally there.
Your survived a childhood that needed you to grow up fast. You adapted so efficiently you never had the chance to grieve the love and care you desperately wanted or deserved.
Your coping patterns and beliefs were built so long ago they feel like personality, until something cracks them open.
These experiences often surface as prolonged burnout, emotional flatness, or a restlessness you can't quite name. And underneath the symptoms is usually something deeper:
a shift in how you see yourself and what you assumed your life would look like.
This is for you if you're ready to address that, not manage around it for another year or another decade.
You’re not on your own anymore and you deserve better.
This probably isn't the right fit if you're in acute mental health crisis, in which case, please speak to your GP or a therapist in the first instance. Or based on how I support and guide my clients, if you're looking for someone to tell you what to do or complain without taking action. That becomes frustrating for everyone but you’re always welcome when you’re ready to move forward.
Invest in yourself here
We start with where you are.
After you sign up, you’ll receive a welcome email within 1 - 2 working days with next steps, including a short coaching agreement to review and sign before our first session.
If it’s helpful, you can also read more about my Approach and my Professional Standards before booking.
Pay in full
£1,497
Payment plan
£597
per month for 3 months
Frequently answered questions
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No — and the difference matters practically, not just technically. Therapy typically focuses on processing the past and addressing clinical symptoms.
Coaching with me is focused on understanding what's been driving your patterns, reconnecting with who you are now, and building forward. We’ll talk about what's happened, which is unavoidable and important, but the direction is always forward.
If you're unsure whether coaching or therapy is the right starting point, say so in your application and I'll give you an honest answer.
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Readiness rarely arrives as a feeling. If you're steady enough to engage with the process, not in acute crisis, but aware that something needs attention, that's enough to start.
The first phase is specifically designed to build the stability and space needed to go deeper.
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Good. Complicated is welcome here. A significant part of this work is making space for feelings or thoughts that don't fit a neat narrative.
Things like ambivalence, relief alongside grief, anger alongside love.
You don't need to arrive with clarity or the right words. Bring your full self, gnarly and wonderful as it is.
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This process specifically addresses what's been underneath, rather than building strategies on top of unresolved patterns.
We integrate neuroscience, creativity, and somatic awareness - not because those things sound impressive, but because they reach what purely cognitive approaches often don't.
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We build in flexibility from the start. If a particular week feels like too much, we adjust.
Nothing here is pass or fail but fits into your life.
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After you buy, you’ll receive a welcome email within 1 - 2 working days with next steps.
This includes a short coaching agreement to review and sign before we have our first session.
Once that’s complete, we’ll book your sessions and get started at a pace that feels manageable for you.
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That’s completely normal. Most people I work with feel awkward, exposed or a bit sceptical at first.
We go at your pace. You don’t have to share everything at once, and you can say “this feels like enough for today” at any point.
My role is to help you explore what you do feel able to bring, not to push you past where you feel safe.
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Life happens. If you give at least 24 hours’ notice, we’ll reschedule your session to another time within your 3-month programme.
With less than 24 hours’ notice, the session is usually forfeited, though I allow the occasional genuine emergency reschedule, at my discretion.
We can clarify the details when you sign up so it feels fair and clear on both sides.
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If you realise you’d have been better off on the payment plan, get in touch and we’ll talk it through.
I can’t always change the structure after payment has been processed, but I’ll be honest about what’s possible and what isn’t.
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You’re welcome to ask. If something feels unclear or you’re not sure whether this is the right step, use the contact form to send me your questions directly.
I’ll come back with an honest reply, usually within 1 - 2 working days, including if I think something else would serve you better right now.
