My Approach

I work with leaders and teams and groups providing ground-breaking approaches to how they work together, talk together, and address changes and culture issues and challenges, including the climate, environmental and social crises we face.

By helping them to build engagement, skills and resilience, they can respond positively to the growing and interrelated challenges of today’s world.

I make human nature and the complex psychological reasons behind seemingly illogical behaviours and responses easy to understand, helping people to move into productive dialogue and positive action.

I have over 30 years’ experience in helping people to discover what makes them tick which helps them to have better conversations, better relationships and to make change happen. 

My Experience

Over the past 30 years, I have worked with thousands of people and over 300 organisations, from small to large. A large part of my work in the last fifteen years has been in creating “Thinking Environments” for high quality thinking, connection and results.

A keen advocate of high professional standards in coaching, counselling and facilitation, I launched and led BACP Coaching, the coaching division of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2010, and from 2013-2018 I chaired and led the 50-strong panel of executive coaches at the Centre for Entrepreneurs. I was a trustee of the BACP for 9 years during the late 1990’s and early 2020’s and involved in many change projects that helped to achieve much greater public acceptance of mental health issues, and the significant value that the talking therapies could bring.

Additionally I love to learn and initiate new ventures. I’m alumna of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, and of the Oxford School of Climate Change, a facilitator, supervisor and speaker for the Climate Psychology Alliance and a founding member of the Climate Coaching Alliance. My freely available climate conversations tool “With the Earth in Mind” is used internationally, and I deliver workshops and keynotes on understanding our responses to climate and environmental change, on climate coaching & on climate leadership. I am also a trustee of a large Community Benefit Society based in Birmingham, the Active Wellbeing Society.

I facilitate all kinds of events from board strategy awaydays and team building events through to helping groups of citizens to debate and take action on their environmental, health and community concerns.

Main Studies, Qualifications & Training

  • Trained in designing, co-ordinating and delivering Citizens Assemblies by the Centre for Blue Democracy

  • Time to Think global faculty member, teaching the professional qualifying level coaching, facilitation and consultant courses

  • Alumna of Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Business Sustainability Management Course (2020) and of the Oxford University School of Climate Change for three years in a row (2019, 2020 & 2021)

  • Trained facilitator of “The Work That Reconnects”, (aka Active Hope) from Joanna Macy

  • Certified Climate Conscious Coach (Academy of Executive Coaching)

  • “Climate Aware Practitioner” recognised by “Psychology for a Safe Climate” in Australia

  • Certified Carbon Ambassador (Carbon Savvy / Resurgence)

  • Qualified Time to Think coach, facilitator, thinking partnership teacher, and consultant

  • BACP registered, accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor (and awarded Fellow of BACP) with diplomas in psychodynamic counselling, individual and group supervision, and stress management

  • Masters degree in strategic human resource management

  • Accredited MBTI, SDI, Leadership 360, and Talent Dynamics practitioner, with training in resilience and stress and post-trauma management, mental health, solution focused coaching, mediation, career management, neuropsychology,  organisational systems and group relations.

  • Qualified BWRT® (BrainWorking Recursive Therapy) level 1 practitioner, and registered member of BBRS (British BrainWorking Research Society).

  • Former SRN & RSCN.

Outside of work

I enjoy a vegan lifestyle, keeping fit with circuit training and HIIT, and experiencing art, music and the countryside with friends and family. 

I’m involved in several local climate and social change groups as a facilitator, speaker and trainer, provide free psychological and emotional support to climate activists and am a news and features writer for my local newspaper.