Mel - Therapeutic Thinking Environment Coach
I’m a curious, creative thinker and coach for the Quiet Ones and neurodivergent humans, exploring qualities of attention and celebrating doing things differently.
As an autistic sensitive, I hold the Thinking Environment as a sacred space, offering a generous environment where the pace is slower, gentler, and more spacious. The ground here is patient; it offers itself to your curious inquiry, honouring a deeper relationship with your sense of time to inhabit more breath and full-body thinking. Essentially, the quality of this space is dedicated to nurturing your exquisite, independent thinking. This felt thinking space is fundamentally grounded in deep care, where our connection and relational attunement is where you can feel truly witnessed, where you are able to reconnect and re-balance, to find your ground. Where you matter profoundly.
As a neurodivergent; autistic, SPS (Sensory Perception Sensitivity) introvert, I’d especially love to work with you if you identify as neurodivergent, as SPS / HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), empath or introvert struggling to find a quiet place for your voice to be heard and for your thinking to fly.
I am especially passionate about supporting and offering a safe space to navigate and explore difficult emotions in response to our climate crisis and related inequalities and societal injustices. Any feelings of grief, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, despair and fear that need a place to belong, to be held respectfully and witnessed are graciously welcomed in this generative practice space and held with muscular hope.
My coaching approach is primarily grounded in the Thinking Environment and is resourced by my history as a somatic practitioner and rebellious creative, it is grounded in the body. My work and ethical landscape is informed by The Work That Reconnects, Theory U, Deep Adaptation, ecopsychology and eco-anxiety, Buddhist psychology and a range of movement modalities that support deep enquiry and an exploration of different ways of being and the process of coming home to ourselves.
Specialisms: Eco-anxiety, somatic-nature connection and embodied creative thinking for neurodivergents, sensitives and anyone who needs more breathing space to reconnect with their ethical, independent thinking.
Other training includes Climate Coaching (AoEC), Through the Door (Climate Psychology Alliance), Theory U (U-Lab: Leading from the Emerging Future, MIT), The Work that Reconnects and Grief Ritual Training with Francis Weller.
I’m a member of the Time to Think Faculty, the Climate Coaching Alliance, the Climate Psychology Alliance and The Work that Reconnects.