Are the stories you are telling yourself keeping you stuck?
I work with thoughtful, high-achieving individuals and leadership teams who sense that an old story — about success, worth, identity, work, or who they must be — is no longer serving them.
Together, we identify the hidden narratives shaping your decisions, relationships, leadership and inner life — and rewrite the ones that are keeping you stuck, depleted, conflicted or disconnected from yourself.
My work combines narrative psychology, coaching, cultural insight, ACT, and clinical hypnotherapy to help individuals and organisations create more coherent, sustainable and meaningful ways of living and leading.
Ways of Working With Me
Private 1:1 Story-Solution coaching. Limited places.
For people who’ve already done the work but still feel stuck, exhausted, lacking in direction, or at odds with themselves. You may be struggling with burnout, perfectionism, a harsh inner critic, imposter syndrome, loss of meaning and purpose, or be in a transition phase.
The Story Solution™ for Organisations
Narrative diagnostics, identity repair, and collective narrative sense-making for sustainable performance. Discover the power of story leadership: story awareness, story stewardship, the ability to defuse from non-generative stories, and powerful practical tools for co-creating new and compelling stories together that allow your teams and organisations to thrive.
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THE STORY SOLUTION™
How it works
Many intelligent, capable people are living inside stories based on unfair and outdated interpretations of themselves.
Many of us are living inside stories we did not consciously choose.
Stories about success, worth, failure, achievement, lovability, control, perfection, belonging, or who we must be in order to deserve rest, approval or happiness.
These stories shape the way we think, feel, work, relate, lead and interpret our lives. They influence our confidence, our decisions, our relationships, our stress levels, our habits and our sense of what is possible.
When our self-story becomes harsh, fearful, perfectionistic or unfair, we may experience:
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chronic self-criticism
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imposter syndrome
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exhaustion, burnout and overdrive
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rumination and indecision
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people-pleasing
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anxiety and internal pressure
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loss of confidence or direction
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the sense that we are never quite enough, no matter how much we achieve
The Story Solution is a 5-step process designed to help you identify and transform the deeper narratives driving these patterns.
Together, we learn to:
1. Observe
Notice the story you are telling yourself about yourself — often for the first time with real clarity.
2. Understand
Explore where these narratives came from, what they once protected you from, and why they continue to shape your thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
3. Edit
Identify what is distorted, outdated, unfair or unnecessarily harsh in your self-story.
4. Reinterpret
Develop a wiser, more compassionate and more accurate understanding of your experiences, strengths and limitations.
5. Author
Create a new narrative aligned with your values, your deeper identity, and the life you genuinely want to live.
Combining narrative psychology, ACT, coaching, clinical hypnotherapy and evidence-based behavioural tools, The Story Solution helps you move from:
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self-criticism to self-trust
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rumination to clarity
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burnout or overdrive to sustainable energy
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paralysis to purposeful action
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perfectionism to psychological flexibility
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external performance to inner coherence
The goal is not to become a different person.
It is to stop being governed by stories that no longer fit who you are — or who you are becoming.
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