Coaching Services:
where the personal meets the professional...
I offer three signature coaching pathways that have sprung from my own professional and personal experience.
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Return with Confidence: Navigating a successful return to work after maternity leave
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Shaping What's Next: Moving on from full time work and into the next chapter, for women aged 60+.
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Quiet Ground: Flexible, compassionate coaching designed for people combining work and caring responsibilities
If these pathways do not speak to where you find yourself today, but you would still like to explore working together, please do get in touch. I welcome any enquiries.
Return with confidence
Six one hour 1:1 coaching sessions, including tools and resources, that will help you design a return to work that is sustainable and where you feel better equipped both at home and at work.
Who is it for?
Professional women returning to work after maternity leave.
This pathway offers the opportunity to:
- reclaim your voice and confidence after maternity leave
- discover the skills you’re developing as a parent that will give you a new edge at work
- complete a personal strengths audit and apply your emerging strengths
- create a return-to-work plan that aligns with your values, energy, and ambitions.
My personal and professional experience of returning to work....
I’ve raised three children, now all adults, while sustaining a career alongside family life. Since 2019, I’ve been an external coach for a climate leadership organisation, supporting their parental return programme. I’m also a longstanding Associate Coach with an international coaching company, offering specialty coaching for working parents across the world. My approach is informed by, among others, the work of Dr Sophie Brock in the sociology of motherhood and Dr Sarah McKay in the neurobiology of women's brain health.
Shaping what's next
Six one hour 1:1 coaching sessions supported by journalling and exploratory exercises in between. We reflect on who you are now and how you want this stage to unfold.
Who is it for?
Women approaching sixty and beyond who are transitioning out of a full time work role and sense there is more to this next chapter than the usual script.
This pathway offers the opportunity to:
- unpack the stories you might be telling yourself about ageing
- take control of your health and wellbeing
- imagine new possibilities for contribution, creativity and reset
- turn ideas into small, doable experiments.
My personal and professional experience of shaping what's next....
I’m in my sixties so still working it out! I find it exciting to be among the first generations in the history of humankind that has an extra thirty years of longevity. It’s not just about healthy ageing, important as that is, but it’s also rethinking what our contribution can be. Coaching helps me to think about the identity challenges – not just how we want to fill our extra time, but also who we want to become in this next phase of life.
Quiet Ground
Being a carer can make committing to a fixed schedule difficult, so my offer is to negotiate a flexible pace around your needs. This could be occasional hourly sessions or we could meet more regularly at times of crisis.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is caring for a parent, partner, child or sibling who feels stretched thin and wants space to breathe, reflect and be heard.
This pathway is an opportunity to:
- talk openly about the emotional reality of caring
- listen to your own needs, not only the needs of the person you care for
- put in place acceptable boundaries and moments of rest
- reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been put on hold.
My personal and professional experience of supporting carers....
In my early career I managed a research and development team on a national Carer programme. As part of this work I was raising awareness of the difficulties facing unpaid home carers through training events with GPs and through published articles in the national and professional press. I also wrote several books on the subject, now out of print. (Help at Hand, Bedford Square Press; Caring for Someone with Dementia, Age Concern: Equal Shares in Caring, Socialist Health Association). In recent years I have cared for both my parents in their final years.