My Methodologies
Broadband Consciousness
Broadband Consciousness was developed by Richard Wilkins and Liz Ivory, and it’s the foundation of everything I do. I came across it nearly twenty years ago at a point in my life when I was really struggling, and it changed everything. I’m not being dramatic when I say that. It quite literally turned my life around, which is why it’s been at the heart of my coaching work ever since.
At its core, Broadband Consciousness starts from a very simple but quietly radical place. There is nothing wrong with you. You don’t need fixing. You just need to find your way back to the real you.
It also gently challenges the idea that you’re somehow choosing to feel bad. Because who would actually choose that? The truth is that most of us aren’t choosing at all. We’re running on autopilot, reacting rather than responding, and wondering why life keeps feeling the same. Broadband Consciousness helps you start choosing a little more consciously and a little more often. And that changes everything.
It’s where the Script, the Sausage Machine and the Pearl Diving all come from. And it’s been genuinely transformative for the people I work with, across an enormous range of challenges including depression, anxiety, stress, PTSD, imposter syndrome, confidence and self esteem, feeling stuck, loneliness, lack of direction, bullying, and that persistent feeling that everyone else got a manual for life that you somehow missed.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re in exactly the right place.
Hacking Your Happy Chemicals
One of the questions I get asked most often is “but how do I actually change how I feel?” It’s a fair question. Knowing that you can choose a little more consciously is one thing. Understanding how to do that in practice is another entirely.
This is where the work of David JP Phillips has been genuinely game changing, both for me personally and for the clients I work with.
David’s research focuses on the biochemistry of how we feel. Specifically, how six key chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins, cortisol and testosterone) drive our mood, our motivation, our confidence and our sense of connection. And more importantly, how we can learn to trigger them ourselves, deliberately and without waiting for something external to do it for us.
This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending everything is fine. It’s about understanding that your brain is responding to very specific inputs, and that you have more influence over those inputs than you might think. Something as simple as how you stand, how you breathe, what you focus on, or how you acknowledge your own achievements can shift your biochemistry in real and measurable ways.
For the scientists and researchers among my clients, this is often the piece that makes everything else click into place. And for those who just want to feel better without needing to know why it works, the practical tools are simple enough to start using straight away.
I’m increasingly weaving this work into my coaching sessions, and I’m also developing a standalone course on it for the future. If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, keep an eye on this space.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder and first published in their book The Structure of Magic, is an approach to communication, personal development and processing that explores the relationship between how we think, how we use language, and the behavioural patterns we develop as a result.
I want to be straightforward with you here. The scientific evidence behind NLP as a whole is limited, and it has its fair share of detractors in the research community. I think it’s important to say that honestly rather than present it as something it isn’t.
That said, there are genuinely useful elements within it, and I cherry-pick the techniques that I’ve found to be practically helpful in real coaching conversations. Things like reframing how we talk to ourselves, recognising the language patterns that keep us stuck, anchoring more positive and resourceful states, and shifting perspective in ways that can make a stuck problem suddenly feel a little more workable.
Used thoughtfully and without overpromising, these tools can be a helpful addition to the coaching toolkit. I’ll never use something with a client just because it’s in the manual. Everything I bring into our work together has to actually be useful to you, specifically.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness has become one of those words that gets thrown around a lot, to the point where it can start to feel a little meaningless. So let me tell you what I actually mean by it.
At its simplest, mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to what is happening right now, in this moment, as fully as possible. Not replaying yesterday or rehearsing tomorrow. Just here, just this.
That might sound straightforward, but for most of us it’s genuinely countercultural. We live in a world that actively encourages autopilot. And autopilot, as we know from Broadband Consciousness, is precisely where the Script does its best work.
This is why mindfulness fits so naturally alongside everything else I do. The more present we are, the more conscious choices we can make. The more we notice what’s actually happening rather than what our brain is telling us is happening, the more agency we have over where our lives go.
In practice, this looks different for every client. Sometimes it’s a short formal meditation or breathing exercise. Sometimes it’s something much more everyday, pausing before reacting, noticing what’s in the room, taking thirty seconds to actually taste your cup of tea. Small, accessible, and genuinely useful rather than something that requires a yoga mat and forty five minutes of silence.
Mindfulness isn’t about emptying your mind. It’s about learning to notice what’s in it.