Areas of Expertise
I have a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. I also draw inspiration from Sports Psychology and Industrial Organisational Psychology.
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology explores how individuals experience life and flourish. By cultivating self-awareness, we gain insight into our unique traits, identify our strengths, and use this understanding to function at our fullest potential. While it recognises that challenges and setbacks are part of life, Positive Psychology frames them as opportunities for growth and learning. Adopting this perspective fosters resilience, encourages proactive development, and can lead to meaningful and lasting progress, growth, and personal evolution.
Coaching Psychology
In the workplace, coaching is a proactive and solutions-focused practice that empowers individuals to align their goals with both personal values and organisational priorities. By fostering self-awareness and reflection, coaching helps uncover unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge limiting beliefs, and build practical strategies for behavioural change. The result is enhanced performance, greater resilience, and sustainable professional growth — enabling individuals to navigate challenges with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Whilst Sports Coaching is different to Executive Coaching, there is much to learn from Sports Psychology that can be drawn across into the corporate world. Coaches such as Pete Carroll (USC Trojans & Seattle Seahawks), Phil Jackson (Chicago Bulls & LA Lakers), and Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid, AC Milan, Chelsea) all embody a human-centred, values-driven coaching philosophy - combining psychological insight, personal development, and a belief in the power of authentic connection to unlock peak performance.
Sports Psychology
Industrial Organisational Psychology
I-O Psychology and coaching are a natural partnership because both focus on optimising human potential within the workplace. I-O psychology provides evidence-based insights into motivation, performance, leadership, and organisational culture, while coaching translates these insights into practical, personalised strategies for growth and development. By combining the two, organisations can support employees in achieving high performance, building resilience, and aligning personal strengths with organisational goals — creating a culture where individuals and teams thrive.
What Coaching Is, Vs What Coaching Is Not
Coaching is....
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A confidential space where you can feel safe to open up and explore your thoughts.
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An opportunity to learn to about yourself, your beliefs, your values, your wants, and your needs.
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A time to invite new ways of thinking/consider new perspectives that can unlock changes in how you feel and how things are.
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A chance to air your thoughts and/or worries in a judgement - free space.
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An opportunity to accelerate your development and progression, without the need for something to be 'wrong' or to have something that needs to be 'fixed'.
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The opportunity to forge your own pathway, by mapping out the steps between where you are now and where you'd like to get to.
Coaching is not....
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An alternative to therapy - they are different practices, and some topics are better suited to therapy.
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The same as mentoring - mentoring is about sharing advice and guidance based on someone's own experience.
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The place to over-analyse the things that you're unhappy with in your present - coaching acknowledges the present, but it's a practice that helps people move forward.
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The place to deep-dive into your childhood as a way of understanding your present - this is better suited to therapy.
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Only for people who have a challenge to work through - people who are already thriving can benefit from coaching to further enhance how things are.
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Something that you can force someone else to do - one should be invested in the intended outcome of coaching, rather than feeling that they are obliged to partake.