Hello, I'm Claire,

Originally from beautiful Derbyshire in the north of England, I moved to the USA in 2014, so my husband could follow his dream and take the company he had created to the next level. Moving to a new country and culture, leaving behind friends, family and everything familiar is challenging for even the most grounded and resilient of adventurers and for that reason I chose to take a career break, to enable me to focus on helping my family make a successful transition to our new forever home.
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I'm so glad that I gave myself the time and space to connect with my new community and to build new strong and beautiful friendships. We love our life here and ten years on, it still feels like we're living the dream.
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My path to becoming a Life Coach and Psychotherapist was not a direct one, even though I wanted to be a psychologist from a very young age. For a number of years I worked for a large corporate company and when asked to take over an existing team, I was drawn to taking an intro to counselling course. That course enabled me to learn so much about myself and how to support my colleagues. It helped me deal with my own challenges as well as the team’s and lit a passion which led me to gain further qualifications and become a Counsellor working with an agency supporting young people before moving to the USA.
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I had always planned to return to work once my youngest graduated high school, which he did in 2020. With the opportunities presented by a global shift to online working I decided to add Life Coaching to my therapeutic skills. It was important to me to pursue a globally recognised accreditation so that the people who chose to work with me would feel safe and secure knowing that my qualifications and ethics met the exacting standards required by the ICF.
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As an experienced therapist, I approached my Life Coaching training with a good deal of confidence; thinking it would be relatively easy after the 6 arduous years of psychotherapy training. It turned out to be the opposite, and was a rather humbling experience. I had to confront my own ego and recognize how my existing expertise was getting in my way. Throughout the year-long course, I gained a new level of self-awareness and a deeper appreciation for the transformative potential of coaching. I continue to grow with each client and every session, and I hope to remain a lifelong learner in this field.

​My experience has shown me that before you can move forward, you often need to let go of something that's holding you back—a habit, a lingering feeling, or a limiting belief and yes, sometimes even your own expertise. The challenge is that what needs to be released isn't always obvious.

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I help my clients identify what they need to let go of, or at least hold a little less tightly, so they can find creative solutions to their problem and move forward with purpose and confidence.