Coaching Psychologist

MSc Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology (Distinction) · GMBPsS · ICF PCC · EMCC Senior Practitioner · PhD Scholar

Kate Brassington

MAPPCP · GMBPsS · ICF PCC · EMCC Senior Practitioner · PhD Scholar

You know what you want to do.
Something keeps getting in the way.

You’re capable, experienced, and self-aware enough to know exactly what the problem is. And yet something keeps falling short. Not through lack of trying. Not through lack of awareness. Something more stubborn than either of those.

You might recognise these?

“I knew exactly what I wanted to say. I just couldn’t say it.”

“I overreacted. I knew I was overreacting. I still couldn’t stop.”

“On paper, everything is fine. So why don’t I feel fine?”

“I’m tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.”

What’s actually happening

This isn’t a mindset problem.
It’s a pattern your body learned.

At some point — often long before you were aware of it — you learned a way of responding to pressure, threat, or uncertainty that kept you safe. That pattern became automatic. Reliable. Yours.

The difficulty is that automatic patterns don’t check whether the current situation actually calls for them. They just fire. Which is why you can know, intellectually, exactly what you want to do differently… and still find yourself doing the same thing.

This is not weakness. It is not a character flaw. It is a learned response that made complete sense when it formed, running in conditions it was never designed for.

That’s what we work with.

The work

Not talking about the past.
Changing what happens next.

Kate’s approach works at the level where patterns actually live — not in conscious thought, but in the body’s learned responses. This means we don’t spend sessions revisiting what happened. We work with what’s happening now, and what you want to be different.

The methods are gentle, evidence-based, and precisely calibrated to what you need. Some clients notice change within a handful of sessions. For others, the work is slower and deeper. Either way, the goal is the same: a fundamentally different relationship with pressure, with yourself, and with what you’re capable of.

Working together

Three ways in.

1. Simply Coaching – 6-session block

For a single, defined goal. Assertiveness. Confidence under pressure. A pattern you’re ready to shift. A contained engagement with a clear shape — and real results. The most common starting point.

2. VIP Purpose Matters Programme (6- or 12- month)

For people who know the surface-level fixes aren’t working anymore. Structured, sequenced, and built around who you actually are. This is where the deeper work happens — and where the focus is on lasting results, not temporary fixes.

3. Couples Coaching

For partners navigating the relational impact of pressure, transition, or long-standing patterns together. Available as a 6-session block or 6-month programme. Sessions run 75 minutes.

To book a free, non-spam, no-pressure discovery call to see if I am the right coach for you, click here.

Ease your suffering and get your fun back – make a start today! Get in touch now.