I work with thoughtful, capable people at points of transition, where familiar ways of living, working, or understanding themselves no longer quite fit. This often includes midlife change, ageing, recovery, new creative projects, shifts in identity, family transition, or life after addiction, where the task is no longer survival or optimisation, but sustainably rebuilding clarity and direction.

My work sits at the intersection of health, human change, and creativity, with a long-standing interest in how people make sense of their lives through story. I take seriously the idea that meaning and momentum are shaped by how we frame our experiences, both internally and socially. Where useful, I help people reflect on the narratives they live by, particularly when those stories have become restrictive or outdated.

My approach is grounded in both formal study and lived practice. I hold an Honours Degree in Philosophy and Writing from the University of Galway, and Post-Graduate training from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, in Modern Health, Lifestyle Medicine, and Positive Psychology. Alongside this, I have spent over two decades designing and facilitating physical wellbeing, mental health, and creative education programmes in Ireland and internationally. This allows me to work across different stages of life without reducing people to diagnoses, roles, or performance metrics.

I came to this work gradually, and not in a straight line. After an early career in finance, I stepped away from conventional professional paths to pursue creative education, philosophy, endurance sport, and international community work. This experience gives me a practical understanding of work culture, pressure, and health patterns that are often invisible from inside high-performance systems, and it continues to shape how I work with people navigating change.

My coaching is informed by contemporary public health research, which increasingly shows that practices once considered peripheral, such as regular movement, creative engagement, time outdoors, and meaningful social connection, are in fact central determinants of physical health, mental health, and long-term resilience. I help people integrate these foundations realistically, in ways that respect energy, life constraints, and nervous system capacity rather than idealised routines.

I rebuilt my own health largely after the age of forty, taking up endurance sports in midlife including long-distance walking and cycling, year-round sea swimming, mountain trekking, and competitive masters rowing. These practices are not about performance for its own sake, but about learning rhythm, regulation, patience, and respect for limits. These capacities are central to sustainable health and adaptation, and they strongly inform how I coach. For balance, I also maintain an ongoing creative practice through writing, piano, and painting.

In my coaching, I work without jargon and without quick-fix narratives. The focus is on clear language, reflective inquiry, and practical change that can actually be lived. My practice follows professional coaching standards and is grounded in strengths-based coaching psychology, supported by supervision and reflective practice. While I work strictly as a coach rather than a therapist, my background includes formal study in psychology and counselling, which allows me to recognise limits, patterns, and the point at which therapeutic work would be more appropriate.

Overall, my work draws on philosophy, lifestyle medicine, positive psychology, creative practice, and lived experience. It is best suited to people who want to move forward through steady, intelligent realignment rather than optimisation strategies or motivational theatre.

I work primarily one-to-one, online and in person, and I intentionally limit the number of clients I work with at any one time. My practice is selective, self-paced, and shaped around the realities of each individual’s life rather than generic programmes..