Team and Group Coaching

Former Chair of BACP Coaching Division, Lucy is an accredited Senior Practitioner Executive Coach, Integrative Psychotherapist, Systemic Team Coach and Supervisor with a strong business background of corporate senior leadership experience. Lucy now coaches executives, groups and teams in a wide range of organisations in the UK, Europe and across the globe, ranging from established global corporations to ambitious, entrepreneurial start-ups. Approach: Lucy’s collaborative, warm, and creative approach to working with clients is underpinned by psychological principles of enhancing self-awareness and self-acceptance, enabling authentic and sustainable change to be achieved. With an energetic and compassionate way of being, Lucy draws on a wide coaching and therapy toolkit along with an understanding of business leadership challenges, to tailor her integrated therapeutic coaching approach to the unique challenges and goals of each client. As a Systemic Team Coach Lucy trained with Professor Peter Hawkins in a model based on the Five Disciplines Model of High Performing Teams, and draws diagnostic models including 'Five Dysfunctions of a Team' (Lencioni) to help groups understand and overcome source of difficulties and thrive. Lucy’s diverse industry experience over the last decade includes media, HR, retail, sales and marketing, technology, beauty, as well as the civil service and public and charity sectors. Accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner level, Lucy also enjoys designing and delivering leadership development training, and mental health and wellbeing workshops for groups and teams, and working with internal organisational coaching networks to deliver CPD events. Specialist areas: Lucy enjoys helping people understand their feelings of low self-esteem and self-doubt, that can manifest as 'imposter syndrome', in order to feel more relaxed and empowered professionally and personally. Lucy also specialises in overcoming relationship challenges, including understanding our relationship patterns, developing confidence in communicating impactfully with others, and working through relationship conflict and/or fear of conflict. Passionate about diversity, belonging, and equality of opportunity, Lucy's background drives an particular interest in supporting neurodivergence, socioeconomic mobility, and advocating for the power of cognitive diversity in enhancing work performance and overall life enjoyment and satisfaction. Supervisor: Lucy had the pleasure of completing her International Coach and Mentor Supervision Certificate with Dr Lise Lewis and Eve Turner. Having gone on her own personal journey in Supervision to integrate her therapy and coaching practice , Lucy enjoys supporting the development of other dual-practitioners as they seem to explore the approach that feels for them, and for their clients. Qualifications and experience: •Accredited Member of European Council of Coaching and Mentoring (EMCC no: 385791) •Registered Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP no: 385791) •ILM Level 7: Executive Coaching and Mentoring Certificate (PG Cert) •Chair of BACP Coaching Division; registered member •MA/Master’s: Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy (Distinction) •International Systemic Team Coaching Certificate •Licensed practitioner of Team 360 Connect diagnositc tool for team coaching •International Coach and Mentor Supervision Certificate •Advanced Diploma CBT (DBT, CAT, CBT-E for Eating Disorders) •PG Dip (Psych) – Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy (Merit)

Michelle is a dual-trained executive coach and therapist, bridging the gap between professional and personal growth when working with individuals and teams. Approach: With dual training as an executive coach and therapist, I bring a unique ability to bridge professional and personal growth, facilitating profound change in a short time. My approach is rooted in the belief that real transformation happens when we address the whole person, integrating self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and strategic clarity. Drawing from my experience as a charity CEO and a marketer in advertising, I bring both strategic insight and empathy to my work. I specialise in helping clients reduce anxiety and burnout, navigate complex relationships, and develop authentic, sustainable leadership styles. My work is grounded in guiding professionals through transitions with clarity and purpose. Specialist areas: -Solo Entrepreneurs -Leadership professionals in period of transition -Charity CEOs -Health care professionals Qualifications and experience: -ICF ACC Accredited -ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching -MBACP Registered -Member of Coaching Division of BACP -Creating the Team Edge Team 360 Accredited Practitioner -Board Trustee – Relate Avon -Governance Committee Member – Quartet Foundation

With over 20 years experience in senior leadership, Sarah is a leadership development, coaching and change specialist. She works as an Executive Coach, Systemic Team Coach, Supervisor, Executive Coach Trainer and Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist. Approach: Using a range of psychotherapeutic and coaching models Sarah helps teams understand themselves better and move forward with purpose and clarity. Her warmth and humour help create a supporting and challenging space in which leaders are able to reflect on their thinking; the way they feel and the behaviours they want. In short - allowing them to understand themselves and become more of who they want to be. Sarah has coached board members, directors, senior executives and teams in a diverse range of organisations in the UK and internationally. She has also devised and delivered coach training programmes so organisations can develop and sustain their own internal coach network. Qualifications and experience: PG Dip (Psych) Integrative Psychotherapy - Transactional Analysis International Systemic Team Coaching Certificate International Coach and Mentor Supervision Certificate Solutions Focused Therapy Certificate Registered Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Chair of a voluntary led coaching service for women which offers coaching to aspiring female leaders free of charge.

Joanne has a 25 year background in supporting people through complex challenging situations at work and specialises in supporting individuals experiencing extreme stress and or conflict in the workplace. Approach: Joanne has a senior level background having headed up large Organisational Development (OD) and award-winning training teams in both the corporate world, the NHS and charity sectors. She works predominately in a person-centred way and combines all her expertise to best suit the needs of the individual or team she is working with. Clients describe her as kind, calm, positive, and insightful. They often say she helps them to see a path through the chaos and build a deeper understanding. This brings an enhanced level of clarity, and they find they are able to see solutions to the most complex of situations that have been causing them sleepless nights. She qualified as a coach in 2009 having a post grad qualification and then went on to study a degree in counselling. Her OD background means she has worked extensively with HR teams building bespoke innovative developmental solutions to the most difficult situations. Specialist areas: As well as being a Myers Briggs and Strengthscope practitioner she also trained as a mediator which is where she started to develop her interest in Conflict Coaching. Being able to use counselling, coaching, mediation and leadership development expertise to support people through conflict with colleagues is invaluable to clients. Many of the conflict coaching clients she sees are going through or have been through an investigation, disciplinary, performance or mediation process that has involved close colleagues, so this expert approach sees relationship renewed and restored. She also works extensively in supporting individuals back into the workplace after periods of sickness. Supporting them to build their resilience and strategies to keep them well at work. Joanne is an Executive member of BACP coaching Division and a co-facilitator of the BACP coaching division network meetings. She also works as an Associate for the leadership and culture change organisation Insightful Exchange and runs her own private practice Wright Insight. She has written several articles for Coaching journals and contributed to a book. Qualifications and experience: -Senior accredited practitioner EMCC (European Mentoring & Coaching Council) -Registered member of EMCC -Registered member of BACP (British Association Counselling & Psychotherapy) -Fellow member LPI (Learning and Performance Institute) -MBTI practitioner -Strengthscope 360 practitioner -ACAS trained mediator -Association for Project Management Professional