Coaching and Mentoring

My coaching is grounded in disability justice, equity and lived experience. I don’t believe in encouraging productivity for productivity’s sake and I won’t push you towards goals that don’t fit your bodymind’s capacities. Working together we will design ways of being that centre access, capacity and care.

I bring professional expertise and a lived understanding of navigating systems that were not built for us, meaning my work is practical, strategic, and rooted in reality.

I am open to working with anyone who sees their needs as aligning with what I offer, but I have particular experience working with:
– Disabled professionals and creatives building sustainable careers
– People navigating new diagnoses, burnout, energy limitations, or changing access needs
– Neurodivergent people seeking skills to manage in the workplace
– Freelancers and portfolio workers seeking clarity and structure

People often come to me for support with:
– Building sustainable, access-centred ways of working
– Navigating fluctuating capacity and work
– Setting and holding boundaries
– Disclosure and access needs at work
– Values-centred decision-making
– Confidence-building after burnout
I work both in practical and reflective ways, understanding the roots of current patterns of behaviour and building new patterns in creative, collaborative and sustainable ways

I will always try to be collaborative, thoughtful and honest. I offer warmth and constructive challenge. I will ask difficult questions when needed, but with care and consent.

You can expect to think deeply, to be believed about your access needs, and to develop strategies that fit your life. I am not here to fix you, or make you fit into an inaccessible world. I’m here to help you build something sustainable for yourself.

Sometimes coaching and mentoring are better led by you – either what you bring to each session, or what you want to bring to a programme of sessions, but I also offer structured programmes created to help people newly coming to terms with the impact of a disabled or neurodivergent experience on their work and life, and to support them to develop strategies to serve them well in a world that isn’t designed for them.

All my coaching is delivered via online platforms such as Google Meet or Zoom, allowing us both to participate in the ways that are best for us. All I ask is that you show up ready for coaching, and in an environment where we can hear (and ideally see) each other. You’re welcome to be wherever you need to be, to get up and move around, to be fiddling, stimming, eating, drinking, whatever helps you be present in the space. I am able to provide transcripts at the end of sessions if desired.

I work on a sliding scale depending on income and funding source, to try and ensure people aren’t priced out of accessing coaching, while I’m able to deliver it in an ongoing and resilient fashion. Many people fund coaching with sources including:
– Arts Council England project or Developing Your Creative Practice funding
– Access to Work Neurodiversity Coaching
– Employer-funded coaching
– Private funding

I typically work by invoice with 30-day payment terms.

Coaching is typically a structured programme with aims we lay out and achieve within a set number of sessions, whereas mentoring is a longer-term ongoing relationship.