I work with people who’ve done well by every outside measure and are quietly asking “what now?”, or “what was it all for?”. The work goes after the cause, and it starts with the body.
Three ways to work with me
30 minutes · No charge
We talk about what’s going on and whether I can help, and if I can’t, I’ll say so.
I know my work is out of reach for a lot of people, so I stay in touch with good therapists and coaches at different prices, and I’m always happy to point you to one of them.
Book a call4–6 weeks · Fixed fee
The first layer of the Ground Up framework on its own. We look at your breathing, then 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; if something needs a doctor I’ll refer you, though most of it I can sort out myself.
Most people feel the difference within weeks, and by the end we both know whether the longer work makes sense.
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The full framework: physiology, then the nervous system, then the psychological work that rests on them. The programme is always the same, though the route and the pace through it are different every time. Keeping it to four means each person gets my full attention.
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Long-term stress shows up in the body before it shows up in the mind. Your nervous system carries everything it took to build your success, and everything that has happened to you along the way. Working on the mind while the body is still braced is like driving with the handbrake half on: you’ll get somewhere, slowly, and it will cost you more than it should. That’s often why therapy or executive coaching felt incomplete.
We always start with breathing: not the dramatic social media version, but functional patterns that support cognition and stabilise the nervous system. Then sleep, and then the eating and movement habits that rest on both.
Long-term stress tends to leave the system stuck: switched on when you need to rest, flat when you need to perform. We work on restoring the ability to shift between the two, and on noticing your own state early enough to change it.
Only when the body feels more regulated can we address the beliefs and patterns keeping you stuck: the tug-of-war between who you want to become and the unconscious commitments to old protective mechanisms. Everything you want to change about yourself served a purpose at one time. Those mechanisms deserve respect if they are to be updated or replaced.
The framework guides but doesn’t dictate. The layers overlap, we often work on more than one at once, and everyone’s route through them is unique.
The 12-month programme
Everyone’s year looks different. This is roughly how one tends to go.
Months 1–3
Weekly sessions to get the physical foundations in place. It’s intensive, with plenty of homework on breathing, sleep and eating. By month three you’ll feel it physically, and we’ll both be careful not to mistake early wins for the finished job.
Months 4–6
We move on to the nervous system and begin the psychological work. You’ll be feeling the benefit of the first few months and starting to see the deeper patterns. It’s still intensive, and you’ll be doing more of it on your own.
Months 7–12
We meet less often as your confidence grows. The aim is for the changes to stop feeling like effort and simply become how you live, so that by the end you can keep them going without me.
Years 2–3
Quarterly face-to-face and quarterly remote sessions for up to two years after the programme, so the change lasts.
We talk about fees on the call. Payments for the programme are spread across the year, even though most of the change tends to happen in the first six to eight months.
I’ll travel anywhere in the world, and we can work online once we’ve spent enough time together in person. If your work, family or location need a different arrangement, tell me; I’m happy to adapt as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the result.
Your commitment matters more than the money. Expect daily practice, homework, and to keep turning up when it’s inconvenient.
Some of it will be uncomfortable, whether that’s a breathing exercise that feels odd at first or a conversation you’d rather not have. My job is to make sure you know why, and that you feel safe enough to go there.
Everything we do together is confidential. I work with public figures and people in senior roles, and I will never tell anyone who you are or what we’ve worked on. NDAs, mine or your lawyers’, are routine.
Some clients have asked me to work with the whole family: relationships at home, children’s learning difficulties and the dynamics around them. I don’t take that trust lightly.