Exhausted in ways rest doesn’t fix?
You got where you were going, and found problems nobody mentioned on the way up. Everything’s in place and none of it quite lands; the driven person who got you here feels like someone you used to know. I help people recover from long-term stress and work out what comes next.
Three minutes on who I am, who I work with, and what the first step is.
Who I work with
You’ve made it, and something still isn’t right.
Perhaps success arrived and satisfaction didn’t come with it. Maybe you feel empty despite having “everything”, or you’ve lost the thread of what it was all for.
Some of the people I work with are paying for the climb in their health or their relationships, or with the evening drink, the phone or the training habit that used to help and now runs the show. Others can’t make decisions they’d once have made in a minute, or have started to worry about getting older.
What they have in common is that they’re ready to put real time and effort in, and they want to deal with the cause rather than keep managing the symptoms.
How I work
Body first. Then the mind.
Most approaches go straight to the mind, which makes sense, because that’s where it hurts. Long-term stress lands in the body first, though, and while your nervous system is still carrying every pressure and short night it took to get here, talking only gets you so far. If therapy or coaching has felt as if it stopped short, that’s often why.
So we start with breathing, then sleep, then eating and movement. Once your body has settled, we look at the beliefs and habits that are keeping you stuck.
I’ve been doing this for 26 years, 17 of them as Lead Learning and Performance Coach for the Royal Marines, Royal Navy and Special Forces.
Three ways to start
You don’t have to commit to a year to find out if this is for you.
Most people begin with a conversation, then a short piece of work on the body. The long programme is there for those who want to go further.
A conversation
30 minutes · No charge
We talk about what’s going on. If I’m not the right person, I know good therapists and coaches at different prices and I’ll point you to one of them.
Book a callPhysiology reset
4–6 weeks · Fixed fee
We look at your breathing and your sleep and put right what we find. I’m trained to assess snoring, sleep apnoea and the other things that wreck a night’s sleep, and can sort out most of them. You should feel the difference within a few weeks, and by the end we’ll both know whether we work well together.
About the resetThe 12-month programme
Four clients at most
The full Ground Up framework: physiology, then the nervous system, then the psychological work that rests on them. Roughly six months to feel significantly better, six more to make it stick, then quarterly support for up to two years.
About the programme17 years
Lead Learning and Performance Coach, Royal Marines, Royal Navy and Special Forces
15,000+
Hours of one-to-one work
26 years
Coaching in the military, in banks, and in private practice across finance, sport, entertainment and business
Trained by
Randal Churchill, Ormond McGill, Donald Robertson, John Seymour, Patrick McKeown
Get in touch
Start with a conversation.
Tell me a bit about what’s going on and I’ll write back myself. It doesn’t need to be well put; a few lines is plenty. Everything you send is confidential, and because I work with public figures and people in senior roles, NDAs are routine.