I am a Health Coach specialising in Stress Management. I enjoy working with people who spend their lives striving and working so hard for their family, career and/or sport, that they find themselves exhausted, burnt-out and struggling with their health. I am also passionate about helping people see how their lifestyle can be contributing to their stress levels and ill health (mental and physical). I predominantly work with corporate executives and recreational runners coaching them to reduce stress, recover from burnout/overtraining using evidence based interventions and a tailored lifestyle programme. It's not uncommon for people to add a huge challenge such as a marathon/ultra marathon to their list of things to do in attempt to de-stress and get 'healthier'. However, adding intense training stress to life stress can be a huge mistake. This is not to say people shouldn't run to manage stress, low mood, anxiety or lose weight. There is plenty of academic evidence to support this. BUT what most people don't consider is that they need to better manage sleep, nutrition, daily physical activity, stress, and self care BEFORE adding a grueling training schedule. Once people improve baseline stress (by improving their lifestyle) work, life and running performance will benefit hugely.

Advisor/Intervention development for a Randomised Controlled Trial entitled Movement for Mind, investigating the effect of movement on occupational stress