Leadership coaching
For leaders and managers who sense their outer effectiveness and inner experience have become out of sync, and want to do something about it.
For leaders
Leadership asks a lot of you. You hold the concerns of teams, boards, communities, or organisations. You make decisions under uncertainty. You carry weight that isn't always yours to name. And often, the higher you go, the fewer places there are to be genuinely honest about what's happening inside.
Over time, a gap can open between the person you are in your role and the person you actually are. You might feel it as flatness, reactivity, a sense that your decisions are coming from somewhere other than your values. You might find yourself performing competence while quietly unsure. Or you might simply notice that something has shifted, and you want to understand what.
This work is for leaders who are ready to look at that gap with curiosity, not judgement.
This approach doesn't ask you to perform more effectively. It asks what's actually happening underneath the performance, and trusts that you already hold the wisdom about your own life.
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These aren't performance problems. They're human ones, and they're more common than leadership culture tends to admit.
The approach
Hakomi-informed
Most coaching stays in the head. Hakomi-informed work pays attention to what's happening in your body. The held breath, the bracing, the thing that tightens when a certain topic comes up. That's where the real information lives.
We slow down and follow what's actually present, rather than rushing toward solutions. That slowing down is often the most productive thing a leader can do.
The container
Sessions are 60 minutes, held online or in person in Wellington or Porirua. You bring whatever is alive for you. I bring curiosity, steadiness, and a set of tools for going beneath the surface.
For leaders, I also offer "Leading from the Inside Out". Six sessions held weekly or fortnightly for deeper work.
Sessions & investment
Sessions are 60 minutes, held online or in person in Wellington or Porirua.
A good starting point. Bring something specific that's live for you right now, or simply come and see what this kind of work is like.
Six sessions held weekly or fortnightly. A committed container for leaders who want to go deeper. Opens with a longer intake and closes with a dedicated integration session.
Equitable access matters to me. I hold a small number of koha spaces for people for whom the standard rate would be a genuine barrier.
Why me
Before I trained in Hakomi, I spent over a decade as a human-centred designer working alongside communities, organisations, and systems on complex, tender issues — health, housing, justice, education. I know what it is to hold complexity professionally, and to feel the gap between strategic thinking and what's actually alive in the room.
That work taught me that real change rarely begins with a clever strategy. It begins when someone feels safe enough to be honest. That's what led me to Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, where I trained from 2022 to 2025, graduating at Advanced Clinical Skills level after more than 600 hours of study, client practice, and supervision.
I bring both worlds to leadership work — the systems-thinking and organisational fluency of a decade in complex change, and the depth and care of a somatic practice grounded in the body, in relationship, and in what's true.
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