About

For around twenty years, I worked as a coach with educational leaders: headteachers, school leaders, senior professionals in education. People who were often skilled, experienced, and deeply committed to their work.

What I noticed, again and again, was that the most capable people were not usually stuck because they lacked knowledge, strategy, or ambition. They were stuck because something else was getting in the way. Something older. Something less visible.

That observation stayed with me.

It eventually led me towards counselling training, a serious investment of time and study that changed how I understood people, including myself.

From coaching to counselling. And back again.

Through counselling work, I noticed something in the other direction too.

Some clients wanted to explore their past, understand their patterns, and make sense of how they related to others. That work was valuable. But some of them were also holding real hopes, clear goals, and an urgent sense that they wanted their life to change. Not just to understand why it had not yet.

They did not only want reflection. They wanted movement.

That is where TheraCoaching came from. Not as a theoretical model, but as a response to what I had actually seen in practice, on both sides.

What I bring to the work

• Two decades of coaching experience with professionals under real pressure
• Counselling training, with the depth of understanding that comes with it
• A genuine interest in the meeting point between self-knowledge and purposeful change
• A commitment to working ethically, within the limits of my training and competence
• An approach that is calm, honest, and focused on what is genuinely useful to you

I am not here to tell you what to do, fix you, or give you a programme. I am here to help you think more clearly about where you have come from, where you are, and where you want to go.

Professional background

I have over twenty years of experience coaching educational and organisational leaders. My counselling training is person-centred, grounded in the work of Carl Rogers, and I work within an ethical framework aligned with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I am committed to ongoing supervision and professional development.