Who I am

Hi, I’m Kate. I’m so glad you’ve found your way to my website today.

I am originally from Ireland, and moved to the UK in 2003 for my MSc. I spent 18 years working for the UK Civil Service, mostly at HM Treasury. I have lived in Dublin, London, Pristina, Paris, Baku and New York, and am now based in Amman, Jordan, with my husband (who is a UK Diplomat) and my children, who at the time of writing are 12 and 10. In my free time I love sewing and ceramics, yoga and sea-swimming. Repeatedly picking up my life and starting it again has given me fantastic opportunities to understand what it takes to make it through big transitions and times of change and uncertainty. This life is not what I expected or planned, in so many ways - accidental emigration (I thought I was leaving Ireland for 3 years max - that was in 2003), prioritising someone else’s career, motherhood and the associated loss of identity, raising a neurodivergent child, burnout in the aftermath of the pandemic and how stressful that was combined with my job at the time. But it is amazing when I let it be, and one of the best things is meeting people and making connections and understanding that we are all so so similar and at the same time so profoundly different.

Coaching has been transformative in my life - not least in helping me decide to train as a coach myself - and I love nothing more than seeing clients achieve similar moments of clarity and transformation.

I believe in living as joyfully as possible. Life is too short and too precious to waste it feeling unnecessarily stuck, lost, unfulfilled and unhappy. Of course, sadness will come into every life, difficult things happen and we often can’t control our circumstances. But we can improve our lives by understanding ourselves and our patterns, seeing our blockers for what they are and thinking through and taking action to get ourselves onto the best path for us.

One of the central tenets of coaching is that our clients are creative, resourceful and whole - you do not need fixing. What you might need is help to create the right environment to enable you to do your best thinking. I work as a partner with my clients to enable you to think deeply, examine your patterns, reflect, articulate what you want and work out how to get there.