Straw Hat Holistic - Wellbeing and Career Coaching

I am a neurodivergent coach with an interest in mental well-being, having worked in a mental health crisis centre for many years. I am accredited with the EMCC and hold senior practitioner status. I have worked neurodivergent individuals across the globe in multiple work sectors.

My original training is in career coaching but my experience has shown that this overlaps hugely with mental wellbeing and so have focused much of my subsequent training to this area and am currently training in trauma informed somatic modalities to help calm the nervous system and ease trauma responses (so watch this space!). I’m also trained in bibliotherapy and using books and stories to help unearth the path ahead.

I am an authentic coach who has a gentle and curious style of coaching and has a passion for accessibility. Enjoying helping others to fully understand themselves, and making previously invisible barriers to success, both visible and surmountable. Thus giving clients the confidence to unmask and live more authentically. Not to mention to feel comfortable with taking the accommodations they are entitled to work on a level playing field, reducing the risk of burnout.

I adapt my coaching in a way that suits my clients and their individual needs and strengths, and love to incorporate assistive technologies into my practice. This may be something as simple as autogenerated subtitles to digital flashcards to a white noise machine to improve engagement and focus. In my practice I draws on tools, aids, techniques and approaches from a range of coaching methodologies and adapting them to suit the client’s individual needs, often creating bespoke resources, in order to maximise value to the client and create lasting change.