How I Work

I offer eco-somatic coaching: a body-based approach that integrates somatic awareness, nature connection, and relational practice. This means our work together will help you reconnect with yourself and support your reconnection with the living world and a deeper sense of belonging in these uncertain times.

At the heart of my practice is a belief that the metacrisis we are facing — ecological collapse, social fragmentation, economic injustice — stems from disconnection: from our bodies, from each other, and from the more-than-human world.

My work is my response.

This work is for you if you’re someone who cares deeply about people, about the planet, about doing good work in a way that feels aligned. Maybe you’re holding a lot and feeling stretched thin. Perhaps you feel lost about how to respond. Maybe you’re tired of doing it all alone. If you’re yearning for more clarity, connection, or courage, you might just be in the right place.

Together, we’ll explore how to:

• Slow down and listen to the innate wisdom of your body and the bodies of the more-than-human world;

• Find meaningful direction through your inner compass, not external pressure;

• Trust and follow the aliveness of what’s yours to do in these times;

• Reclaim your rhythms, rest, and relationships as acts of resilience and rebellion.

My Training + Scope of Practice

Like many of my clients, I’m something of a learning junkie. You can find all my qualifications here, and I’m regularly engaged in my professional development.

I work with clients to:

• Nurture their embodied resilience through trauma-informed practices;

• Develop embodied awareness and range to support desirable changes in behaviour and perspectives;

• Connect more deeply with themselves, their innate rhythms and cycles, and the people and natural world around them.

I regularly participate in Coaching Supervision as well as engaging in coaching and therapy to support me in upholding high standards in my practice. I proactively seek and respond to feedback from my clients about our coaching dynamic.

Coaching isn’t therapy nor a substitute for it. Coaching requires a base level of psychological safety that may be difficult to access if you are experiencing mental health issues or unresolved trauma. If you need to choose between coaching and therapy, I recommend you choose therapy and I can suggest some wonderful practitioners. Many of my clients continue to have therapy alongside coaching with me.

Why is Eco-Somatic Coaching different?

Most personal development stays in the head. But in a world that has prioritised intellect over intuition and control over connection, we need approaches that bring us back into our bodies and into relationship with the living world around us.

Embodiment, simply put, is how we are. It’s how we relate to the world and we show up. It’s the way we express ourselves, through our character, behaviour and posture. It’s how we are sensitive to ourselves, others and the world around us. Embodiment is more than being in the body; it’s feeling through the body. It’s the simplest and most direct path to self-awareness, transformation and wise action.

And yet, it’s not just our bodies we need to be in connection with.

Ecotherapy brings us back into relationship with nature as not just a resource, but a teacher and companion. By focusing on relationality and interdependence, ecotherapy helps us remember we are not alone in the world. It gives us tools to listen differently, seeding reciprocity so that we might confront our role in ecological and climate collapse and reclaim our capacity to grieve for the world we’re part of. 

Eco-somatic coaching integrates both: the body as guide, and nature as mirror. Eco-somatic practices are a gateway to recognising and challenging the perceptual roots of the metacrisis and reimagine our humanity and our future.  

Eco-somatic coaching allows you to access your body’s natural intelligence and get a new perspective when your particular way of doing smart has hit a wall and you’re stuck in old patterns of thinking and behaviour. To put it simply, this is less about thinking your way through a problem and more about feeling your way through. It’s a ‘bottom-up’ approach rather than a ‘top-down’ way of dealing with challenges.

Eco-somatic coaching wakes up your innate human capacity for choice. Once you are aware of what you are doing as you do it, you have the opportunity to choose among the various options of what to do and how to do it.

I also bring with me…

• 15 years of leadership and operational experience in the military and international development sector, often working in high-risk, high-pressure environments.

• 8 years of self-employment as a multi-potentialite. While coaching and facilitating are now my main focus, I’ve managed a portfolio career across multiple interests including DEI consultancy, operational management and security, and women’s rights in conflict zones. 

• 7 years of teaching, coaching and mentoring solopreneurs, small business owners, and coaches.

• 2 years diving deep into the world of collapse, the metacrisis and systems thinking, and I’m currently studying for an MA in Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability at SOAS Univeristy of London as I continue to ask what it means to be human in these times.

• A lifetime of perfectionism and over-striving that I’m slowly and surely recovering from.

When you work with me, you are welcome to tap into any of my experiences alongside receiving coaching.