Clinical Supervision & Coaching
35+ years’ experience across mental health, wellbeing & community services
Trauma-informed, independent, and reflective support
Brighton & Hove | Online across the UK

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Specialist,Themed &
Identity-Informed Support

Supporting reflection, identity, and wellbeing across different areas of experience

Alongside general coaching, I offer specialist, themed, and identity-informed support in several areas. This work is grounded in professional experience, specialist training, community research and consultation, alongside lived experience and sits within a coaching, mentoring, and wellbeing framework.

Each area creates space to explore your experience in a way that is reflective, practical, and responsive to your context.

Neurodivergent Coaching

Neurodivergent coaching offers an affirming space to explore how neurodivergence, or possible neurodivergence shapes wellbeing, confidence, relationships, and everyday life.

This work recognises that many challenges arise not from who you are, but from environments, expectations, and systems that were not designed with neurodivergent people in mind. Support is compassionate, strengths-based, and paced to honour sustainability, boundaries, and sensory needs.

Support may be helpful if you are:

navigating diagnosis, self-identification, or questioning
managing masking, overwhelm, or burnout
feeling misunderstood or “out of step” in certain environments
working out how to organise life, relationships, or work in ways that feel more aligned

Sessions may include:

exploring identity, self-understanding, strengths and patterns
developing supportive routines
working with shame or self-criticism
strengthening self-advocacy
making decisions about disclosure, adjustments, or support needs

Coaching can also support:

sensory regulation (managing overwhelm, energy, environment)
executive functioning (organisation, planning, transitions)
emotional processing (recognising and working with emotions)

Sessions are sensory-aware and flexible. This may include visual tools, movement, or the use of physical supports such as fidgets or grounding objects where helpful.

LGBTQ+ Identity & Wellbeing

This work offers confidential, one-to-one support for people who identify with, or are exploring, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, or non-binary identities and experiences. This creates space to explore sexuality, gender, identity, and belonging, and how these shape wellbeing, confidence, relationships, and a sense of safety in the world.

This work recognises that identity is influenced by relationships, community, culture, and wider social and political contexts, and that these can have a real and ongoing impact.

Support may be helpful if you want to:

build confidence, self-acceptance, and pride in identity
explore questions around sexuality, gender, or expression
navigate coming out, transition, or identity change
reflect on shame, internalised stigma, or experiences of not feeling you “fit in”
make sense of loneliness, isolation, or disconnection
think through relationships, intimacy, and belonging
explore the impact of discrimination or anti-LGBTQ+ hostility
reflect on intersectionality and life transitions

This work is trauma-informed, compassionate, and person-centred, informed by over 25 years’ experience delivering and leading specialist LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing services, alongside lived understanding of LGBTQ+ community contexts.

Imposter Feelings

This work focuses on understanding self-doubt, comparison, and a sense of not belonging, particularly in contexts shaped by identity, lived experience, marginalisation, or high responsibility.

Rather than viewing imposter feelings as a personal failing, this work explores how beliefs about competence, success, and worth are shaped by experience, culture, education, discrimination, and organisational context.

Sessions may explore:

how you judge your own capability and achievements
patterns such as minimising strengths or attributing success to luck
the impact of comparison or “feeling different in the room”
perfectionism, pressure, and unrealistic expectations
boundaries around workload and responsibility

The focus is not on eliminating imposter feelings, but on understanding where they come from and developing a steadier, more grounded sense of confidence.

Ageing, Identity & Transitions

This work offers space to reflect on ageing, identity, and what it means to live well as life changes over time.

Ageing can bring both growth and challenge, including changes in identity, relationships, health, roles, and sense of direction. It also recognises the impact of wider social attitudes, including ageism, and how these can shape confidence, visibility, and self-worth.

This work is not only for people in later life. For some people, concerns about ageing, time passing, appearance, purpose, or “falling behind” can emerge much earlier and may shape wellbeing, confidence, or how they experience themselves and their future.

Support may be helpful if you are:

navigating changes in identity, purpose, or direction
experiencing loneliness, isolation, or disconnection
adjusting to changes in health, mobility, or independence
making sense of loss, including youth, appearance, roles, or relationships
processing bereavement or ongoing grief
noticing shame or internalised beliefs about ageing
wanting to strengthen confidence, assertiveness, and a sense of being seen and heard
reflecting on retirement, changing roles, or later-life transitions
thinking about mortality, legacy, or preparing for the future

This work may include space to explore both loneliness and aloneness, recognising that aloneness is not the same as loneliness, and for some people may involve navigating life alone, with or without choice.

Sessions may include reflection on identity, connection, loss, safety, and what “living well” means to you now.

The approach is strengths-based and grounded in respect for your experience, values, and resilience; supporting you to move forward in ways that feel realistic, meaningful, and sustainable.

.Men’s Wellbeing

This work offers space to explore identity, wellbeing, and the experiences of being a man or relating to masculinity.

It is open to anyone who identifies with, or has experience of, being male, masculine, or connected to men’s or masc-based experiences, including trans and non-binary people.

Experiences of masculinity are shaped by identity, culture, relationships, sexuality, and social expectations, including ideas about “what makes a man.” This creates space to reflect on how these influences impact emotional wellbeing, connection, confidence, sense of self, and how you move through the world.

Support may be helpful if you are:

exploring identity, masculinity, or sense of self
navigating sexuality, personal presentation, or how you express yourself
feeling pressure around expectations, roles, or responsibility
experiencing isolation, disconnection, or difficulty opening up
wanting space to share feelings and experiences in a way that feels safe and understood
exploring stress, anger, communication, or difficulty expressing emotions
questioning patterns or behaviours in relationships
experiencing shame, self-criticism, or a sense of not “measuring up”
wanting to build confidence, assertiveness, and non-aggressive communication
thinking about purpose, direction, or life transitions

This work supports reflection on both the pressures and privileges associated with masculinity, including how intersectionality, power, and social context shape experience, identity, and opportunity in different ways. It also creates room to explore what it means to take up space in ways that feel authentic, respectful, and grounded.

Sessions may include reflection on identity, relationships, emotional expression, boundaries, responsibility, and what wellbeing means to you.

The approach is strengths-based and grounded in respect, curiosity, and accountability, supporting you to develop a clearer, more confident, and more connected way of being.

Trauma Experience - Wellbeing & Resillience

This work offers a reflective, supportive space to understand and respond to the impact of trauma.

It recognises that trauma can affect how you think, feel, relate to others, and experience the world, sometimes long after events have passed. This may include feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, on edge, or stuck in patterns that are difficult to shift.

Support is grounded in a trauma-informed approach, with careful attention to safety, pacing, and choice. The focus is not on revisiting or reliving past experiences, but on building understanding, stability, and more supportive ways of responding in the present.

Support may be helpful if you are:

experiencing strong or confusing emotional responses
feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or constantly “on edge”
noticing patterns of avoidance, shutdown, or reactivity
struggling with trust, safety, or connection
finding it difficult to regulate emotions or manage stress
feeling stuck, numb, or disconnected
wanting to better understand your responses and triggers
looking to build safer, more manageable ways of coping

This work can include understanding common trauma responses, such as fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, and how these can show up in everyday life. It creates space to notice patterns, develop awareness, and respond in ways that feel safer and more grounded.

Sessions may include:

developing awareness of triggers and responses
building emotional regulation and grounding skills
exploring boundaries, safety, and self-protection
strengthening resilience and self-trust
supporting stabilisation and day-to-day wellbeing

The approach is strengths-based and paced carefully, recognising that recovery is not always linear and looks different for everyone. The focus is on supporting you to feel more steady, more informed, and more in control of how you respond, in ways that feel realistic and sustainable.

Winter Wellbeing & Seasonal Support

This work explores how darker months and seasonal change can affect energy, mood, motivation, routine, connection, and emotional wellbeing.

For many people, winter can increase feelings of isolation, overwhelm, grief, exhaustion, or disconnection. Seasonal challenges may also be shaped by financial pressure, family dynamics, bereavement, identity, social expectations, or experiences of spending significant periods alone.

This work recognises that winter can affect people biologically, emotionally, socially, and practically. The focus is not on “pushing through” difficult periods, but on developing supportive ways of responding that feel realistic, compassionate, and sustainable.

Support may be helpful if you are:

experiencing seasonal low mood, reduced motivation, or exhaustion
finding darker months emotionally difficult or overwhelming
feeling isolated, disconnected, or withdrawn during winter
struggling with routine, sleep, energy, or self-care
anticipating challenges around Christmas, New Year, anniversaries, or family dynamics
experiencing grief, loneliness, or a heightened sense of loss during certain seasons
wanting support to prepare for winter more intentionally and proactively
looking to build resilience, structure, and supportive coping strategies before things become unmanageable

Sessions may include:

understanding personal seasonal patterns and early warning signs
developing supportive routines and realistic winter planning
focusing on consistency and sustainability rather than pressure or productivity
staying connected to meaningful people, activities, and routines
managing energy, overwhelm, and emotional wellbeing
building grounding, self-care, and coping strategies
reflecting on expectations, comparison, or pressure linked to festive periods
exploring loneliness, grief, or social disconnection
developing personalised wellbeing tools, coping plans, or reflective worksheets

This work may also include psychoeducation around Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), winter-related low mood, nervous system regulation, and the impact reduced light, stress, and isolation can have on emotional wellbeing.

Sessions are paced gently and flexibly, recognising that winter affects people differently and that support needs can change over time. The approach is strengths-based, trauma-informed, and focused on helping you build steadier, more supportive ways of moving through difficult seasons.

How this work fits together

While these areas are described separately, they are not fixed or siloed.

In practice, sessions often move fluidly between general coaching and the different areas of specialist support described above, depending on what feels most relevant.

This work is informed by extensive experience across mental health, advocacy, and suicide prevention services, supporting a grounded, thoughtful approach to complexity, safety, and emotional wellbeing.

These areas of experience also inform my wider clinical supervision and reflective practice work, particularly for practitioners working in complex or emotionally demanding contexts.

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