Catherine offers interactive coaching and mentoring programmes for young people with SEND and their families, experiencing challenges accessing school and social activities. She is passionate about sharing how the nervous system works, promoting self-compassion and exploring authentic purpose with a view of belonging rather than fitting in. During sessions Catherine helps to create a sense of empowerment, self-worth and motivation that can have a lasting positive affect for the individual and others, reducing anxiety and often enabling purposeful transitions and inspiring next steps.

Living in a neurodiverse household including a child with Down's Syndrome and Autism, Catherine has first-hand experience of the EHCP system, school trauma and education settings other than school. She has a deep empathy for the effect of seeking, receiving and living with diagnoses can have on whole family wellbeing. She fully understands that at times SEND parents can be so focused on their child, they put aside their own needs, not acknowledging the personal trauma experienced. 

Catherine has a science and alternative therapy background, along with a MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. This results in theory driven, evidence-based sessions designed to fulfil our basic needs of competence, relatedness and autonomy. A former business director, she is also a trained creative trauma recovery mentor, youth mindfulness facilitator and breath coach.  This is combined with lived experience ensures she tailors sessions to family and individual needs.