Hello, I'm Sharon
Specialist coach, therapist and guide who has been where you stand
I know this work not just professionally, but intimately.
Professionally, I’ve spent years supporting women through trauma, difficult relationships, anxiety, people pleasing, perfectionism, over-functioning and the many ways we can lose ourselves while still appearing to be doing absolutely fine.
But I also know what it is to be that woman.
For a long time, my outer life looked fine, more than fine, actually, but inside I was really struggling and quietly falling apart.
I stayed too long in situations and relationships that diminished me. I gave far more than I received. To prove my worth, I would strive for perfection in all I did and push myself harder, often to exhaustion. I overrode any inner signals until my body forced me to stop with burnout. I actually became quite unwell.
I tried to understand myself and work my way out of what I was experiencing.
I tried talk therapy.
I read self-help books and listened to podcasts.
I educated myself.
I worked on my mindset.
And some of it helped. But I still couldn't seem to feel the depth of ease, change or healing I was looking for. The heaviness, the anxiety, the overwhelm and the never ending whirring in my mind would still follow me.
It wasn't until I began working with my body and nervous system that something deeper started to shift.
If I'm honest, it saved my life.
The experience was so profound and changed not only how I felt, but how I understood healing itself. It actually changed the course of my life, and my profession.
I began to understand that knowing something intellectually and being able to live it are not always the same thing.
That our nervous system, our body, our relationships and our lived experiences are all part of the picture - beyond our mind and mindset.
And that lasting change isn't about trying harder to become a better version of yourself.
It's about understanding what is really happening, working with your whole system, healing your nervous system, and creating space for something different to become possible.
Why I do this work
I work with women who may be incredibly capable, self-aware and successful, yet still find themselves struggling in ways they can't quite move beyond or think their way out of.
Women who may understand why they over give, over function, people please, overthink, strive, stay too long, struggle to trust themselves or find it difficult to make the changes they know they want to make.
And women who have come through something significant and are now asking a different question:
What happens next?
You may have spent years understanding what happened to you.
You may know exactly where some of your responses came from.
But knowing the story intellectually doesn't necessarily mean your body has caught up.
This is where my work begins.
What I bring
My approach brings together years of specialist therapeutic experience with nervous-system education and healing, somatic and body-based practices, relational expertise and forward-focused coaching.
My work lives at the intersection of modern nervous system science and ancient spiritual wisdom. Drawing from trauma-informed and polyvagal training, I hold space for women ready to embrace true, deep healing. Together we journey into the grit, grace, joy and beauty of your unique human experience and personal path.
I don't believe there is one method that works for every woman.
And I don't believe you need another list of things to fix about yourself.
You aren't broken.
Your nervous system learned what it needed to do to keep you safe. Today, those learned patterns are what could actually be taking away your peace. And it's those patterns that we work with.
That might be in a relationship.
At work.
With your family.
When you're making a decision.
When you're trying to rest.
When you need to say no.
When you want to trust yourself again.
Or when you're standing at the beginning of a completely new chapter and aren't quite sure who you are now.
What I hope for you
I want you to wake up feeling empowered, energised, vitalised and grounded, with a sense of your own belonging and worth that comes from within. Not because you think you should feel that way. Because you genuinely do.
To trust yourself without constantly needing reassurance from outside yourself.
To recognise what is happening in your body and nervous system rather than being swept along by it.
To know you don't have to keep going to feel worthy.
To have relationships where you can stay connected to yourself as well as the other person.
To know that you can handle difficult feelings, difficult conversations and difficult moments without abandoning yourself.
To feel an ease, energy, confidence, worth and sense of belonging from within.
Not a return to who you were before.
Something new. Something that is rooted in who you are now.
My Training and Experience
My work is grounded in specialist therapeutic training and years of experience supporting women through trauma, nervous-system rewiring and healing, relationship difficulties and the ways our experiences can shape how we live and relate.
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Specialist Somatic & Trauma Therapy
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Nervous System Practitioner - trauma informed and polyvagal theory
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Registered, Women’s Wellness Hypnotherapist
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Certified Life Coach - Life and Workplace Wellbeing
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Breathwork and Meditation Facilitator
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Somatic Movement and Expressive Dance Practitioner
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ACCPH Member
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ICAHP Certified Holistic Practitioner
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Member of Professional Standards Authority
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Member of National Hypnotherapy Society
My work has been influenced by leading voices in somatic and trauma work, including Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Deb Dana, Arielle Schwartz and Aimee Rai.
But alongside all of the training, there is something else I bring to this work.
I know what it is to have to find your way back to yourself.
And I know how profound it can be when that change stops being something you understand in your head and becomes something you actually experience in your body and your life.
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