Coaching and therapy for women navigating change.

Therapy offers space to understand and process emotional experiences, mental health, relationships, and the impact of hormonal or life changes. Coaching is more future-focused, helping you find clarity, make decisions, and take practical steps towards change.

If you want space to slow down, feel heard, and make sense of something difficult, therapy may be a good place to start. If you feel ready to explore what comes next and turn your ideas into action, coaching may fit better. The therapy-or-coaching guide on this page can help you reflect.

Yes. The Transition Coach offers therapy-informed coaching for women navigating midlife, menopause, and other transitions. If you need support processing distress, trauma, or mental health difficulties, The Menopause Therapist may be the more appropriate route.

Yes. I offer a free 30-minute conversation before you commit to anything, with no pressure and no pitch. It’s a chance to say what’s going on, ask me whatever you need to, and get a feel for whether we’d work well together. You’re welcome to arrive with a clear goal or with nothing more than a sense that something needs to change.

You can book a discovery call (coaching and coaching supervision) or an introductory call (counselling and clinical supervision).

Mostly, you talk and I listen. I’ll ask what’s brought you here and what you’d like to be different, and we’ll cover the practical side: how often we’d meet, how confidentiality works, what I do and don’t do, and whether we both feel we’d be a good fit.

You don’t need to have it all organised in your head beforehand, or explain it in the right order, or arrive with a tidy summary. Plenty of people begin with “I’m not really sure where to begin”, which is a perfectly good place to begin.

We’ll pick up wherever feels most pressing, and I’ll follow your lead rather than working through a fixed agenda. In counselling that usually means space to talk and be properly heard. In coaching we’ll also start shaping what you want to be different and how you’ll get there. You don’t need to prepare anything beforehand. If you finish the session feeling that this is workable, it’s done its job.

Fees differ across each service, and each one is listed in full on the relevant site:

• Counselling: 50-minute sessions, online or by telephone. Counselling and fees
• Clinical supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists and coach-therapists: regular or single-session, from one to two hours. Supervision and fees
• Coaching: 60 or 90-minute sessions, individually or as a six-session programme. There’s a personal rate for self-funded and public sector clients and an organisational rate for employer-funded work, and payment plans are available for programmes. Coaching fees
• Coaching supervision fees are in line with my self-funded personal coaching rate.

Whichever route you’re considering, the first step is the same: a free 30-minute call, with no obligation.

Sometimes, yes. One of the advantages of my working across counselling, coaching and supervision is that you’re not locked into the door you came through. If coaching turns up something that needs deeper attention, or therapy reaches the point where you want to look forwards and act, we can talk about changing focus rather than you starting again from scratch with someone new. Equally, a therapist or coach who comes to me as a coaching client may later want to work with me as a supervisee.

Moving between these relationships requires care and ethical awareness of dual relationships, so we would always discuss the change and agree a clear ending to one relationship before starting the other. Sometimes the right answer is a referral to a trusted colleague.

Yes. Alongside my counselling and coaching qualifications, I’ve completed the Certificate in Neuroaffirming Practice and ADHD in the Therapy Room with Free2BMe, Inside of Autism with The Autistic Advocate, and training in working with eating disorders and neurodiversity with NEDDE. I’m also neurodivergent myself, which shapes how I work.

I work neuroaffirmingly, which means the goal is never to help you appear more neurotypical. It’s to understand how your brain works and build a life and a working pattern that suit it.

I don’t carry out diagnostic assessments, but I can talk you through the assessment routes, and I work with a lot of people processing a diagnosis that arrived decades later than it should have.

I work with women online and by telephone, so you can access support wherever you are in the UK or internationally. Visit the relevant site for current availability and booking details.