Professional Training & Credentials
Everything I bring to our work together is grounded in evidence — in real science, rigorous training, and 15 years of practice. What follows isn’t a list of letters after my name. It’s a map of the curiosity that has driven me throughout my career — always looking for what actually works, what the research says, what serves the whole person rather than just the presenting problem.
I draw on an extensive range of tools and frameworks because most people benefit from a blended approach — one that addresses the psychology, the habits, the body, and the self-relationship simultaneously. Everything below has been chosen because it works, and because it fits the kind of coaching I believe in.
Coaching Credentials
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
The PCC is one of the most rigorous coaching credentials available globally. To earn it, coaches must complete a minimum of 125 hours of accredited coach training, accumulate at least 500 hours of documented coaching experience, pass the ICF credentialing exam, and demonstrate coaching competence through performance evaluation. It signifies not just training, but sustained, evidence-based practice.
Certified Professional Health and Wellness Coach (Advanced)
Wellcoaches® School of Coaching
Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching
ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring
Specialist Training
Mindful Eating
Licensed Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Program Workshop Facilitator and Coach
Programmes include: Optimal Wellbeing, Diabetes, Bariatric Surgery, and Mindful Eating for Workplace Wellness.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine Coach Certificate, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Behaviour Change
Behaviour Change Specialist, American Council on Exercise (ACE)
Weight Management Specialist, American Council on Exercise (ACE)
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity in Coaching: Context & Skills for Effective Coaching, Animas Centre for Coaching
Self-Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills Training
Kristin Neff & Chris Germer, Greater Good Science Centre, USA
Adolescent Coaching
Coaching Adolescents, Youth Coaching Institute
Long-Term Health Conditions
Reclaim Your Life: Living with Long Term Health Conditions Practitioner Training
Physical Activity & Movement
Motivating People to Become Physically Active
Mindful Movement — in progress
Senior Fitness — in progress
Additional CPD
Ongoing professional development in: resilience, mindfulness, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Essentrics
Level 4 Certified Essentrics® Instructor
Essentrics® Academy, Canada
I am currently the only Essentrics instructor in Scotland — and one of the first fully qualified Essentrics instructors in the UK. Essentrics is a full-body dynamic stretch and strength programme originating in Canada, combining principles from ballet, Tai Chi, and physiotherapy.
Find out more about Essentrics and my classes
Academic Background
PhD in Social Anthropology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Before training as a coach, I was a university lecturer and researcher. My doctoral fieldwork took me to a Himalayan village in North India for 16 months — an experience that shaped not just my academic thinking but my entire approach to human understanding and change.
My PhD led to work as a social development consultant for NGOs and international development organisations across South East Asia and West Africa. For 16 years I lived and worked in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
My background in social anthropology — and the years spent learning to understand people’s worlds from the inside, on their own terms — is the foundation of everything I do as a coach. The skills are remarkably similar: deep curiosity, genuine presence, non-judgement, and the belief that every person is the expert on their own experience.
Current Practice
I am currently an Associate Practitioner with a private GP clinic in Glasgow, offering coaching services to patients referred by their physicians.
I am also an Associate of a national occupational health company, offering workplace and vocational rehabilitation coaching.
I am a listed licensed Mindful Eating Workshop Facilitator and Coach on the Am I Hungry?® website, and a listed instructor on the Essentrics® website.
The Frameworks I Draw On
My coaching integrates evidence-based approaches from across psychology and behaviour change science, including: coaching psychology, the science of habits and goal-setting, neuroscience, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, self-compassion practices, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and lifestyle medicine.
If you’d like to know more or have any questions about my background and approach, I’m happy to talk.