Hello, and welcome! Thank you for dropping in.

I’m Sylvia, and my aim is to inspire great personal and professional performance, and, be mentally and physically healthy, and encourage employers create and build supportive workplaces. All of that’s good for individuals…., and good for businesses and education providers.

Formerly a banking executive, with over 30 years’ experience, I now love working with employers to recognise mental health as a workplace asset and with individuals to encourage, enable, and support their unique growth and development to achieve, succeed, be their realistic best, realise their full potential, often overcome things they didn’t think possible, and be mentally healthy.

Please take a look around my website to see how I can help you, your business or your education facility, and also ‘news and events’ to see what I’ve been up to. 

Performance Coaching

Whether you are an individual, business or education provider, as an NLP coach I can provide specialised coaching in the art of performance with [mental] well-being. I also draw on my experiences from a successful financial services career. The aim is to enlighten, encourage and enable individuals to do more with, or use differently, what [resources] they already have.

This enhances personal and professional performance, maintains or increases effectiveness, resilience, well-being and, in the workplace, their productivity all which enables and supports you, the business, to do the same.

Mental Health Champion

I’m a passionate activist for 'Time to Change', the campaign to change attitudes towards mental health and ill health, and look after mental health as we do physical health.  My consultancy champions workplace mental health/ill health confidence and business to recognise mental health as a workplace asset.

I do this by promoting understanding what mental health is… and what it isn’t; its impact on workplace activity and risk factors; shifting awareness, understanding and information into practical actions; encouraging individuals to ‘spot’ signs of change and provide practical tips and ideas. A simple message: mental health matters.

Integrative Counsellor

For over 15 years, I’ve worked extensively with clients on a one-to-one basis with depression, anxiety, lack of self-esteem, confidence, interpersonal skills, loss, human frailty, fragility and vulnerability, yet working to the fundamental principle of self-actualisation.

I’m also trained in art therapy meaning other mediums can be used for exploration, insight, growth and change when words are not enough; when clients are unable, or lack the ability, vocabulary, strength or confidence to express or articulate themselves.

Inspirational Speaker

I aspire to inspire others that ‘If I can, they can too’. I can share my personal story - my life in two halves – about my lived experience of suicidal depression, my personal transformation from mental ill-health to mental wealth and embracing life, while having a successful career. I can also share my personal and professional experiences of being a consistent high performer and role model in dynamic and demanding workplaces.

My motivation is simple: to use my experiences to inspire, encourage and enable others, and raise mental health/ill-health awareness and confidence.