Who am I to help you survive a breakup?
A highly qualified coach and published author, I have been specialising in divorce since 2010, well before it became ‘a thing’. I was the UK’s first specialist divorce coach – the original, you might say – and where I have led, many others have followed.
I have worked face to face with over 1,700 clients, supporting them through difficult separations and divorces. My service is professional, impactful, and highly praised. I am proud of my reputation as an outstanding coach in the area of divorce recovery, with glowing testimonials from clients and their solicitors.
After my first Masters Degree, I trained with Kim Morgan at Barefoot Coaching. I am a member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), and Collaborative Family Law North, which aims to help people achieve a more amicable separation. I work with family lawyers, mediators and other professionals committed to the constructive resolution of divorce, separation and family disputes.
With time, as I became more established, my confidence grew. In 2015, I wrote a book: After The Split, drawing on my coaching and life experience. The book is currently in its second edition, and provides insight, guidance and clarity to those navigating loss, identity shifts, and difficult transitions. I have since expanded my writing alongside my busy coaching practice and my first novel, Grey Matters, was published in 2025.
What I do
I provide emotional support during divorce and separation and help people make decisions about staying together or separating. I particularly enjoy helping people make difficult decisions and decide on a course of action. Often, they seem quite sure that they want a divorce but have some lingering doubts and anxieties. Others, in controlling relationships, find it difficult to disentangle themselves from their partner.
Despite having worked with over 1,700 clients, I have never heard the same story twice, but every day I see people’s lives changing for the better and each time I see these changes taking place I love my job more and more.
Over 16 years, I have worked exclusively with people looking for clarity around a fractured relationship. Most often this involves helping them deal with the practical and emotional fallout of a long-term relationship breakup. Sometimes it involves looking at how they can change their relationship for the better; and sometimes it involves reaching the decision to end it.
I feel privileged to be able to help people during desperate times: I have been through the experience of a breakup myself and remember how it feels. To see people move, often in a relatively short space of time, from a place of heartbreak and desperation to one of hope and strength is positively life affirming.
How divorce coaching found me
At the age of 50, I moved away from a 20-year career in senior roles within higher education and trained as a coach. I discovered that I’m very good at listening and asking searching questions that help my clients make sense of their new situation. Without this, they are unlikely to be able to move forward.
When I first set out along this path, I thought my background would lead me to a career in performance coaching. But something about that just didn’t inspire me.
Everything changed when someone asked me to speak to her friend, whose husband had recently left. The impact of that conversation and subsequent conversations, coupled with my own experience of a relationship breakdown, showed me many of the challenges and emotions facing people when a relationship ends, and I knew I could help others in a similar situation.
Why me?
One of the things I love most about my work is seeing someone move from the depths of despair to a place of strength, determined that a life event will not define them. It is a true privilege to be able to help with this transformation, and it is a combination of my passion, hard work and dedication to this area of coaching that puts me in this privileged position. Together, they have helped me become:
- A specialist: I am an expert in separation and divorce coaching, working with people who are going through or facing the prospect of a relationship breakup
- Highly qualified: I have a Masters Degree and I trained with a highly regarded organisation providing qualifications in coaching, accredited by the University of Chester and endorsed by the ICF (International coaching Federation) and the National Council of Psychotherapists (NCP)
- Experienced: I have specialised in divorce coaching for over seventeen years and worked with hundreds of clients, all with different stories. Every client is unique; there is very little I have not heard, and nothing surprises me
- Professional: I am a full member of the Association for Coaching, dedicated to promoting best practice and raising the standard of coaching worldwide
- Highly rated: By my clients and those who refer clients to me (mainly family solicitors)
- Respected: I work hand in hand with senior family solicitors in prominent legal firms across the UK
- Published: Author of After the Split: the definitive guide to recovery when relationships break down
- Expert: I am a contributor to The Divorce Magazine and other specialist publications, a regular regional BBC radio station contributor and a presenter at family law conferences
- Collaborative: I am a Collaborative Family Law North member, helping couples achieve more amicable separations
You can also read what my clients, and "those who recommend people to me, say about my work.
If you, are struggling in the aftermath of a relationship breakup, or you know somebody who is, please don’t struggle alone. Whether it’s through divorce coaching, relationship coaching or the practical advice in my book, I can help.