The Mind-Under-Pressure Specialist
Counselling & Coaching
Overcoming challenges. Finding clarity. Moving forward.
I offer counselling and coaching for adults and teens (16+), providing support with emotional challenges, life transitions, work or study pressures, when things feel overwhelming, you're stuck, or you're struggling to cope.
I work with you to manage and work through emotional challenges that are affecting your wellbeing, confidence, or ability to move forward.
This includes support to help you:
feel calmer and more emotionally steady
manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelm
rebuild confidence and trust in yourself
understand and shift patterns that keep you stuck
regain clarity and direction during times of change
I commonly work with people experiencing:
stress, overwhelm, and emotional regulation difficulties
anxiety, low confidence, and persistent self-doubt
burnout and mental exhaustion
challenges at work with difficult workplace experiences, performance-related pressure, leadership, career progression and career change.
life transitions, identity shifts, and adjustment challenges, including school, university or starting a career
difficult familial relationships
Ready to take the first step?
Book your free 15-minute call and we can explore where you are now, where you want to go, and how I can support you.
Special New Year Offer
For sessions booked from January to the end of March 2026, I will be offering 50% discount on your ‘first’ full session - see About Counselling and Fees or About Coaching and Fees for regular rates and how discount will apply.
*Please note that coaching packages are already discounted, so this offer does not apply to these.
My approach is calm, thoughtful, and collaborative.
Sessions offer a supportive space to:
- slow things down
- make sense of what’s happening emotionally
- understand patterns that may be keeping you stuck
- rebuild clarity, confidence, and steadiness
Support is always guided by your needs, goals, and readiness.
My counselling approach is integrative and grounded in person-centred, strengths and solutions-based, with schema and cognitive-behavioural approaches, supporting you to work through emotional challenges, understand patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and build more effective ways of coping. Coaching is integrated when appropriate, drawing on values clarification, strengths identification, and solution-focused strategies to support clarity, confidence, decision-making, and practical next steps, particularly around work, study, or life transitions.
Support tailored to your needs:
Meet Alex
I’m a qualified Counsellor (Post Grad Dip Couns/ACA) and Coach (Level 2/ICF), working in private practice and pro bono charity-based community counselling, supporting adults and teens (16+) navigating overwhelm, transition, and the pressure to hold everything together.
With a background in high-pressure senior leadership roles, I understand the realities of workplace stress, confidence challenges, imposter syndrome, executive performance, career progression, and the complexity of transitioning out of corporate life or into something new. I also understand and work with the personal challenges that sit alongside these shifts, such as changes in identity, loss of confidence, relationship challenges, parenting teenagers into adulthood, and the emotional toll of managing competing demands.
With additional experience in school counselling, working with university students transitioning to working life, and as a parent of teens now transitioning to adulthood, I have also gained a deep understanding of academic pressure, uncertainty about the future, school anxiety, and the unique needs of young people as they find their way into the workplace.
What My Clients Say!
“Working with Alex has been genuinely transformative. She helped me understand what energises me and what drains me, guiding me toward a clearer vision for my next chapter. I now feel grounded, confident, and ready to move forward.”
J.R
“I came to Alex at a crossroads in my life and career, unsure of my next step. Her insightful questions and supportive presence helped me see new perspectives and understand the beliefs shaping my decisions. I left with clarity, confidence, and renewed direction.”
A.L
“Alex creates a sense of safety and trust with young people. Her emotionally attuned approach and strong conceptualisation skills have helped anxious and disengaged students feel more grounded, understood, and able to make meaningful progress.”
M.K
“The only person you have the power to change is yourself.”
Dr Edith Eger
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung