ABOUT EMILY

I’m a [human] resilience and capacity specialist. I use a coaching-based approach to support people working on the frontline of systems change to stay engaged, resourced, and connected to what matters most — without paying an unsustainable personal cost.

My work combines coaching with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), bringing together training in health, nutrition, and wellbeing coaching, behaviour change, embodiment, trauma-informed ACT and nature-based climate change coaching .

Alongside my one-to-one practice, I also design and facilitate learning programmes for coaches and sustainability professionals through my work with Climate Change Coaches. I was the editorial consultant for Climate Change Coaching: The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action, the first every published book to bring together coaching and climate change.

I came to this work through a non-linear path — including social justice, documentary filmmaking, and nutritional health. Each step has shaped how I understand the ways systemic demands, uncertainty, and urgency can gradually show up as emotional, relational, and physical strain for people doing purpose-led work.

From personal experience, I know how challenging it can be to stay engaged without becoming depleted. When you care deeply about the work and the world it’s situated in, it’s easy for your own needs to be sidelined. The psychology-based approaches I now use, particularly ACT, have helped me understand my own responses to uncertainty, complexity and feelings of overwhelm. They’ve also shaped how I support others – with compassion and curiosity.

Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, I now live in the suburbs of Paris with my husband, our two children and our rescue cat. Outside of work, I stay grounded by hiking in forests, with my imperfect yoga and meditation practice, experimenting with permaculture gardening, and cooking for the people I love.