Therapy and Coaching

If you hold complexity for a living you may really need spaces where you can settle, relax, slow down and get to build on your foundation, so your room for making effective choices expands and stays expanded.

I offer trauma-informed therapy and coaching that restores and expands your capacity—so you can remain present in difficult situations staying true to yourself, and contribute effectively to what you care about.

You might carry more than you realise. Years in demanding roles—humanitarian response, peacebuilding, advocacy, leadership in high-pressure contexts—this leaves traces in the body that don't simply resolve when your contract ended, or the context shifts or when you have taken a long break.

You might notice trauma as persisting stress and exhaustion, loss of motivation to be in your job, staying in a job because there are no other options or because that's the livelihood you know. You may also experience anxiety, panic attacks, cynicism and thinking that this work is meaningless,  maybe a shorter fuse than you used to have? Perhaps your experience is difficulty remembering things you ordinarily would have been able to? It can manifest as difficulty being present with people you care about. A sense that you're functioning, but just going through the motions. Or perhaps something more acute—intrusive memories, frequent restlessness or hypervigilance?

Are you experiencing difficulties with trust in your organisation or your environment? Does it seem to you that you or others around you are increasingly reactive and irritated? Are you often encountering silence when really an open chat and heart-to-heart could be helpful?

This work is for you when you are ready to address that what you are carrying must not be carried alone. We do not have to talk about it endlessly, but by working with the body we build a deeper layer of resilience, enhancing your capacity for regulation in situations that have always been incredibly challenging.

Who I Work With

• Humanitarians, Aid workers & Peacebuilders

• Activists & organizers

• Social-impact leaders & founders

• Caring professions (educators, social workers, responders)

• Mediators & facilitators

• Security & public-safety professionals (military, police, security agencies)

If you do not presently fall within any of these categories, and you would still like to explore collaboration please do reach out through the contact form.

What We Work On

• Burnout cycles

• Personal and workplace conflict

• Harassment and surveillance stressors

• Chronic stress, moral injury, compounding exposure, field/HQ friction

• Decision fatigue, isolation at the top

• Secondary trauma, boundary fatigue, grief

• Empathic strain, role contamination, holding others’ conflict

• Operational stress, cumulative exposure, organizational pressure, values conflicts

How We Might Work on this

• Downshifting from hyper-vigilance/freeze; steadying your baseline

• Restoring sleep, energy, and rhythm; repairing boundaries without guilt

• Processing critical incidents and cumulative stress; addressing moral injury

• Untangling repeating conflict patterns at work or home

• Rebuilding trust and connection in teams and relationships

• Making decisions that are values-aligned and sustainable

The Methods I Use

I draw primarily on Somatic Experiencing—a body-based approach to trauma and stress that seeks to harness your body's self-regulation mechanisms. We will explore how these may have been inhibited by chronic stress and survival responses. This goes beyond the narrative and thoughts we have about what you have experienced. This is often extremely effective for people who are willing to engage and expand their interoceptive awareness. 

I also integrate Nonviolent Communication for a needs-based language and as a repertoire for building self-empathy and empathy for others in challenging situations. I use this in coaching and psychoeducation processes to aid in transforming judgements and limiting beliefs into curiosity. My work is also parts-informed in recognition of the mulitiplicity of our selves and the internal conflicts you may experience, aiming toward integration beyond a world of either/or beliefs. Finally, I use group analytic thinking for understanding how we are shaped by our relational context, to understand the roles you play or have played in the groups you have been part—families, teams, organisations— and how they continue to shape how you relate and what you carry with you.

Somatic and paced. We work with your body’s signals (breath, posture, activation, sensation) to create safety and choice, using titration and pendulation rather than overwhelming dives into trauma material. There is no need for going back to traumatic memory, because trauma is non-conceptual and can therefore be resolved through the felt sense.

Relational and practical. Expect grounded conversation, micro-skills from Nonviolent Communication, and small exercises during sessions that translate into daily practice.

Systems-aware. I account for the realities in your environment: policies, power, culture, and role pressures. Change is designed to be durable in messy systems—not just in ideal conditions or situations we build in our head and then they never materialise the way we had imagined.

Ethical and clear scope. I offer trauma-informed therapy and coaching. I don’t provide psychiatric care or legal/operational advice. If you need additional support, we’ll map a safe pathway together.

A Note for Professionals who face critical incidents:

Work in insecure places carries unique loads: split-second decisions, constant alertness, organizational/public scrutiny, exposure to harm. My work helps you:

• down-shift without losing edge

• metabolize critical incidents and cumulative stress

• navigate values dilemmas and moral injury

• restore sleep, boundaries, and family/team connection

• build repeatable regulation you can use on and off duty