THE APPROACH
The Wise Mynd approach
A clear, evidence-based way of working, the same whether the engagement is therapy, coaching, executive support, supervision or consultation to a team. From the first conversation through assessment, shared understanding, tailored work and review. Culturally attuned, and organised around The Seven Pillars of Wise Mynd.
HOW THE WORK UNFOLDS
A clear, structured way of working.
Whether you are coming for yourself, seeking supervision as a practitioner, or bringing a team or organisation, the work is not improvised. Every engagement follows the same evidence-based arc that clinical psychologists are trained in, moving through clear, connected stages: from relationship and assessment to formulation, intervention and evaluation. What changes from one engagement to the next is not the rigour of the process, but what we find inside it and what we decide to do together.
What differentiates the approach is the combination behind that process: doctoral-standard clinical training, a social-psychology grounding in how context, culture and audience shape a person and a group, and a way of working that takes the system around someone as seriously as the world within them. That is what lets the same method serve an individual, a supervisory relationship, or a team.
How this unfolds. These stages are a shape, not a script. The work is iterative rather than strictly linear: we revisit and refine as understanding deepens, and we hold the ending in mind from the very first conversation, so the work always has direction and a clear sense of where it is heading.
Relationship and referral
The work begins with connection. From first contact or referral, whether you are approaching for yourself, on behalf of someone you manage, or for a team, you will be met with warmth and without judgement. The starting assumption is that the people involved are capable and making sense of something that matters, and that the work is a collaboration. The initial consultation is where we establish whether the practice is the right fit and how we might work together.
Assessment
Every engagement begins with careful, unhurried assessment: a thorough understanding of what is happening, in your specific life and your specific context, before anything is decided.
Formulation
From that assessment we build a shared formulation together: a clear account of what is happening and why. You will always know what we are working on, why, and how we will know it is working. Nothing is done to you; it is agreed with you.
Intervention
Only then does the work itself begin, chosen for the situation rather than for my preferences. In individual work the primary modality is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based approach that works at the level of memory, the nervous system and the body, used here preventatively and developmentally as often as for trauma. In coaching and executive work it is structured, forward-looking psychological work applied to how you build and lead. In supervision and consultation it is protected reflective practice, facilitated thinking and structured peer support. Sessions run on a cadence that suits the work, with flexibility around production cycles, launches and travel where that matters. Across all of them I hold multiple models at once rather than forcing an experience into one, grounded in the neuroscience of stress and recovery and in the wider systems people live and work within.
My work is informed by
What we use is decided by your situation, never by my preferences.
Evaluation
Progress is tracked where measurement is useful, and reflected on deliberately where it is not. We review openly and adjust as the work develops, so the practice stays accountable to the outcomes you came for, whether those are personal, professional, or the wellbeing of a team.
THE SEVEN PILLARS
A framework for the whole person, and the system they sit in.
The Seven Pillars of Wise Mynd are a framework for the whole person and the system they sit in. That applies whether the work is individual therapy, coaching, executive support, supervision, or consultation to teams and organisations. Wisdom is already present across these sources; the work is to find where it is carried, where it is over-relied upon, and where it has been left holding weight it was never meant to hold alone.
The seven sources are Cognitive Discernment, Emotional Wisdom, Embodied Wisdom, Meaning and Values, Cultural and Contextual Wisdom, Intergenerational Wisdom and Relational Wisdom. In individual work they describe a person. In supervision and consultation the same seven describe a team or an organisation: how it thinks, what it feels, what it carries and what it has inherited.
HOW I HOLD THE WORK