Meet the Founder

I'm an organisational psychologist and the founder of The Mind Partnership. Before founding The Mind Partnership, I spent nearly 20 years in Finance, primarily in London, across private equity, investment banking and wealth management, latterly establishing and exiting the business.

My own experience of corporate life is central to the way I work with clients. I know well the pace and pressure of demanding professional environments, and I understand the demands that many professionals and leaders experience: the pace, responsibility, uncertainty and constant balancing of performance, relationships and personal wellbeing.

I know how easy it can be to appear successful on the outside whilst quietly struggling with stress, anxiety, burnout, self-doubt or feeling disconnected from yourself and others. This is very much relevant to, but hidden in, leaders and that causes feelings of isolation and alienation. 

At the heart of my work is offering a warm, thoughtful and confidential space that is both professional and genuinely compassionate. A place where clients can feel safe to explore what is going on beneath the surface, while also helping them move towards meaningful and sustainable change.

My training includes researching leadership and psychology at Bristol and UCL and I am about to build on these with a Doctorate in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour. 

My professional training includes a Diploma in Transformational Coaching (I hold EMCC Senior Practitioner designation) and a range of psychotherapy modalities, including narrative therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, compassion focussed therapy and transactional analysis. I draw on these perspectives when they offer a useful way to understand a particular challenge, deepen a conversation or support deep, lasting change.

I work both online in person, in the UK and globally, and I am highly mindful of confidentiality and discretion, which many clients particularly value.

Outside of my professional work, I am mother to three young children and enjoy music, museums and art, dance, travel, the countryside, wellness and reading whenever I can squeeze it in. Much of my free time is spent with my family and our Australian Labradoodle. My other role in life, which I hold without title nor compensation, is driver to our children.

I am a Trustee on the Board of Wellspring Scotland, a mental health and counselling charity, and a Mentor with MCR Pathways, a charity supporting care-experienced young people.