Executive Coaching With Psychological Depth, for LGBTQ+ Founders and Leaders

Most executive coaching addresses what you do: your habits, your calendar, your presentation style.

I work with who you are, and the systemic pressures that shaped you.

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The Identity Tax

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Many LGBTQ+ leaders carry what I call the Identity Tax: the ongoing, invisible labour of deciding how much of yourself to reveal in rooms that were not built with you in mind. It shows up as hypervigilance before difficult meetings, over-preparation to pre-empt questions nobody should be asking, and a specific kind of exhaustion that a good holiday does not fix.

Standard leadership development rarely names this cost, let alone addresses it. I built my coaching practice because I saw senior LGBTQ+ professionals doing excellent, high-pressure work while quietly managing a second job: managing their own visibility.

Who I Work With

I mostly work with founders, leaders, and executives, many of them LGBTQ+, who are highly capable and still feel something is not resolved.

You may recognise the signs: success that does not feel like relief, decisions made from old survival patterns rather than present judgement, or a nagging sense that your professional self and your actual self are not the same person.

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How This Is Different

I trained as a psychotherapist before I trained as a coach. That order matters.

Instead of a toolkit of leadership frameworks, we work with the actual mechanics of how you think, decide, and relate under pressure, then apply that understanding directly to your leadership.

This is coaching with clinical depth behind it, not borrowing therapy language for effect.

Credentials

I am an EMCC accredited coach, a UKCP registered psychotherapist, and hold Senior Accreditation with the BACP (MBACP Snr Accred). Fifteen years of clinical and coaching practice sit behind every session.

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