Coaching is about growth, transformation, and moving forward with purpose and clarity. Trauma-informed coaching adds an essential layer of care: it creates a safer, non-judgmental space for those who have experienced trauma, abuse, or adverse childhood experiences. Many people carry the effects of past pain, sometimes without even realizing it. Trauma isn’t just what happened then; it’s how those experiences still live in the body, mind, and emotions today.
This approach meets you where you are, offering support for growth, healing, and meaningful transformation. Whether you’re navigating a life transition, setting healthier boundaries, wanting something better, or achieving your dreams, trauma-informed coaching helps you move forward without needing to relive the past. And if old wounds do come up, they’re held gently and safely so you can keep building the life you want with greater confidence and self-trust.
Traditional coaching often focuses solely on goals and performance without acknowledging how past experiences—especially unresolved ones—can shape one’s current behaviours, feelings, reactions, and inner dialogue.
Trauma-informed coaching offers a more holistic and respectful path forward. It’s not just about taking action; it’s about building awareness, fostering self-understanding, and aligning your actions with your authentic self. This approach empowers you to pursue meaningful goals while honouring your full humanity and inner wisdom.
Over time, trauma-informed coaching can lead to profound transformation, helping you break old patterns, access deeper clarity, and live a more fulfilled and authentic life.
Trauma-informed care principles are recognized as best practice and form a framework increasingly adopted in mental health, healthcare, education, and organizational settings.
In addition, we offer two focused trauma-informed programs: one dedicated to building resilience, and another to developing healthy boundaries.
Although each person’s goals are unique, many of my clients have shared these common benefits:
Trauma-informed coaching isn’t about pushing you to do more for the sake of it. Together, we slow down and tune in, noticing what’s happening in your body, emotions, and thoughts. This helps you choose actions that feel true to you and deepens your connection with your inner world.
I’ll share practical tools to help you feel more grounded, more confident, and more able to face whatever life brings.
If part of your journey is building healthier relationships, we’ll explore how to trust yourself more deeply. This can be connected to your boundaries, needs, and inner voice. Additionally, we’ll look at what emotional and psychological safety feels like with others, so you can see where it’s safe to show up fully and where it may not be.
This is a space where you can heal and grow at your own pace, without pressure to revisit the past in ways that feel too much.
When trauma is acknowledged with care, there’s less shame, less pretending, and less burnout. You’ll learn to honour how your mind, body, and emotions work together. Additionally, we can include gentle practices to support your nervous system, if relevant.
Sometimes old wounds quietly keep us stuck. Trauma-informed coaching helps you work through what’s in the way in a safe and gentle way. As a result, you can move forward in a way that truly lasts.
Not at all. Trauma-informed coaching can support anyone seeking personal growth, clarity, or a deeper connection with their inner wisdom. You don’t need a trauma history to benefit.
Being trauma-informed means the coaching process is sensitive to your lived experiences and honours your pace, boundaries, and autonomy. It’s rooted in six core principles of trauma-informed practice: Safety, Trust and Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration and Mutuality, Empowerment and Choice, and Cultural, Historical and Intersectional Awareness.
This approach creates a respectful and supportive space, whether you’re healing from the past or simply moving forward in your life.
This is a complex question, and the lines between coaching and counselling can sometimes blur depending on your goals and the practitioner’s approach.
A standard narrative is that coaching is future-focused while counselling focuses on the past. While this may be true for specific therapy models, such as psychoanalysis, many contemporary counselling approaches are also present- and future-oriented. For example, in my role as a trauma counsellor, clients set specific goals for our collaboration, just as they do in coaching.
That said, you don’t need to explore your past in trauma-informed coaching. Counselling, by contrast, often includes working with the past to some degree, especially when addressing current symptoms or emotional patterns.
Generally, trauma-informed coaching focuses on specific areas of growth or change and is typically a shorter-term approach. Clients often experience progress more quickly since sessions are based on clear and supportive goals. Unlike counselling, coaching does not involve trauma processing or an in-depth exploration of past trauma. Instead, it helps you move forward—even when past experiences may influence the challenges you’re facing today.
Counselling, on the other hand, usually involves a more comprehensive treatment plan and may include deeper emotional processing, including working through trauma history.
Trauma-informed coaching fosters increased self-awareness, helping you reconnect with your inner wisdom and resources. While it’s goal-oriented, it can also lead to profound inner transformation.
As your coach, my role is to walk alongside you. I support your journey with clarity and non-judgment, using tools grounded in emotional safety.
The goals we focus on will always depend on you—your needs, values, and what feels most meaningful. Trauma-informed coaching can support a wide range of areas. Here are some examples of what clients often bring to our work:
Each session is tailored to your needs and the goals you’re working toward. We’ll begin with a brief check-in and explore what feels most important to focus on that day.
Sessions are grounded in your self-exploration, supported by thoughtful questions and reflections to deepen insight and clarity. When helpful, I may offer practices such as visualizations, role-playing, psychoeducation, or parts work. These are always invitations, not requirements—you’re encouraged to follow your intuition and choose what feels right in the moment.
You guide the content and pacing of our work together. While coaching emphasizes action, it’s not about pushing yourself—it’s about discovering actions that align with your authentic self and inner truth.
We usually wrap up by identifying one small, meaningful step you’d like to take toward your goal. Throughout the process, I serve as your accountability partner, walking alongside you with care, clarity, and support as you move toward lasting change.
EMDR is traditionally a therapeutic process used within clinical settings. However, elements of EMDR can also be supportive in coaching, especially when used to strengthen inner resources, address present-day challenges, or release emotions connected to future scenarios.
As a mental health professional trained in EMDR, I may offer EMDR-informed tools during coaching sessions when appropriate. In this coaching context, these approaches focus on the present or future to help you achieve your goals.
Importantly, any practice or tool I suggest is always subject to your consent. You are encouraged to trust your intuition and choose what feels right for you at each stage of the process.
If at any point I feel that deeper trauma processing might support your growth, I may gently suggest that counselling could provide a more suitable container. Ultimately, you know what’s best for you, and you can choose to accept or dismiss this suggestion.
Yes, I offer online sessions through a secure platform called Jane.app. This allows clients to access services anywhere worldwide, making it convenient and flexible to fit your needs.
That’s completely fine. We offer a gifted session to determine if it would work for you. Together, we’ll explore what you’re seeking and help you choose the best support for you. If counselling or another resource seems more suitable, I’ll guide you with care and honesty. Because I’m trained in both coaching and counselling, you also have the option to switch between these services if your needs change.
For more profound healing, EMDR therapy, trauma counselling, and mental health support, explore our trauma-informed counselling services.
As a trauma-informed coach with over 14 years of experience, I’m passionate about supporting people in transforming their lives and achieving their goals. Every session is shaped around your unique needs and aspirations and grounded in a strong commitment to anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices.
You don’t need to identify as having experienced trauma to benefit from this work — all you need is a desire to reconnect with your inner voice, feel more like yourself, and create lasting change. I’m your partner, and I help you get where you want to be.
As an individual with lived experience of trauma, I know firsthand how powerful coaching can be on a healing journey. While I honour that everyone’s path is different, my own experience helps me bring deeper empathy, understanding, and care to the people I work with.
You don’t have to face this journey alone. With trauma-informed coaching, you can begin creating lasting change and transformation now. Whether you’re ready to deepen your growth or explore new possibilities, this is your space to find the path that fits you best.
We offer a gifted session so you can explore how coaching might support your goals—no pressure, just a chance to see if it feels right for you. Book your session today through our secure online booking system, or send us a quick message via the contact page. We’re here to support you with care and encouragement every step of the way.
