Career & Executive Coaching
I offer career and executive coaching for people who want to understand themselves more deeply, navigate professional challenges and make thoughtful decisions about their working lives.
My approach combines occupational psychology with psychodynamic coaching to explore the patterns that influence how we work, relate and lead.
We can find ourselves repeating patterns we recognise but struggle to change. Difficult relationships may recur. We may respond to pressure in ways that are unhelpful, take too much responsibility, avoid difficult conversations, strive for impossible standards or find that ways of working which once served us well no longer do.
At other times, the question is less about a problem and more about direction. You may have achieved a great deal professionally but find yourself wondering what you want from the next stage of your working life.
Career Change & Transition Coaching
For people considering a career change, feeling stuck in their current role or uncertain about their next step. Drawing on Occupational Psychology and Psychodynamic Coaching, we explore your strengths, motivations, values and working preferences alongside the patterns that may be influencing your career decisions.
The aim is to develop greater clarity about what matters to you, what might be holding you back and how you might approach the next stage of your working life with greater confidence.
Where appropriate, the Occupational Personality Questionnaire can provide an additional perspective on your strengths and preferred ways of working.
Psychodynamic Executive Coaching
For executives, leaders and senior professionals who want to understand themselves and their working relationships more deeply. We explore recurring patterns, responses to pressure, difficult relationships and the less obvious influences on how you lead.
This may include how you exercise authority, manage expectations, navigate organisational dynamics or respond to the demands of leadership.
The aim is to develop deeper self-awareness, greater flexibility and more choice in how you respond to the challenges of your role.
A different kind of coaching
Psychodynamic coaching looks beneath the immediate issue to explore some of the less obvious influences on how we think, feel, relate and behave at work.
Coaching allows us to become curious about recurring patterns, responses to pressure, relationships with others and the assumptions we may carry without necessarily being aware of them.
The purpose is not to analyse everything or dwell unnecessarily on the past. It is to develop deeper self-awareness and greater choice: understanding what may be driving a response so that you are better able to decide how you want to respond.
My approach brings together my experience as an Occupational Psychologist, Coach and Psychodynamic Counsellor, alongside my research into the psychological foundations of leadership development.
You don’t need to be experiencing a crisis or have a specific problem. Sometimes the value lies simply in having somewhere to think properly.
How coaching works
We begin with an exploratory discussion to understand what has brought you to coaching, your professional context and what you would like from the work.
If we decide to continue, 60-minute sessions are arranged at intervals appropriate to you and the nature of the work.
60-minute session: £150
Organisation-funded coaching is contracted separately and priced according to the nature and scope of the work.
Using the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
For those wanting a broader exploration of their working style, coaching can also begin with the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ).
The questionnaire provides another perspective on characteristic ways of working, relating to others and responding to demands.
Rather than treating the results as labels, we use them as a starting point for deeper exploration: considering what resonates, what doesn’t, which patterns serve you well and which may become less helpful, particularly under pressure.
This includes completion of the OPQ followed by a 90-minute feedback and psychodynamic exploration session, with further coaching arranged as appropriate.
OPQ + 90-minute feedback session £375
A quiet place to think
In-person sessions take place in a quiet, private rural setting near Saffron Walden, within easy reach of Cambridge and accessible from London. Being away from the usual demands of working life can create a different kind of space for reflection.
Career and executive coaching are also available online.
Getting started
If you’re considering career or executive coaching, please get in touch.
We can arrange an initial conversation to discuss what you’re looking for and whether my approach would be a good fit.