EMILY BUCHANAN

resilience coach / ACT practitioner/ trainer facilitator

supporting people working for change,
helping you feel steadier, clearer, and better resourced

I coach mission-led professionals, activists and organisers who are working to shift unjust systems and are stretched to the limits of their capacity – often juggling overlapping responsibilities in their work and personal lives.

My coaching offers a grounded space to pause, share the load, and begin untangling from cycles of urgency, over-commitment, self-doubt, or burnout. Together, we’ll explore tools and practices to help you feel steadier, clearer, and better resourced—so you can keep doing the work that matters to you.

My approach draws on training in health and wellbeing coaching, trauma-informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and nature-based, body-centred practices. These offer practical ways to process stress, anxiety, and overwhelm—supporting your nervous system and helping to reclaim a rhythm that works for you.

  • “Emily is an excellent coach who listens deeply, provides searching questions, holds space intimately and allows you to unfurl the nodes of connection within you. I would recommend her to anyone who is looking for some guidance and direction in their liberation/activism journey. ”

    LIBA – ACTIVIST AND FOUNDER OF ANTI-OPPRESSION CIRCLE

  • "Emily has helped me hone in on my strengths, providing techniques to better focus my energy, set boundaries, protect myself psychologically from often mentally distressing work and envision more desirable collective futures to strive for. Coaching with her has been transformative for me."

    KELLY – CLIMATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

  • "Coaching with Emily helped me re-ground in my key relationships; settle into a clear work direction; gain a perspective on what I can do to support climate change action and most importantly, helped me value my health and well-being."

    TRAXON – CLEVELAND

We’re living in a pivotal time, where the stakes are high and uncertainty and complexity touch almost every part of life.

If you're someone working toward a more just, sustainable future—whether through your profession, your advocacy, or how you show up in your community—you’re likely carrying more than just a full schedule. Often, it’s not just the doing that drains us, it’s the emotional weight too: holding a sense of responsibility, hope and urgency, grief for what’s being lost, frustration at the slow pace of change, and the sense that there is so much at stake. You may feel pulled between the drive to do more and the need to rest (and the guilt that comes with that too). I know because these are all things I’ve felt too. It’s a heavy load to carry alone.

This is where resilience coaching can help.

Developing resilience in this context isn’t about pushing through or toughening up no matter what. It’s about learning to listen to your body, care for your nervous system and developing the capacity to bend without breaking—so that you can keep giving in a way that’s sustainable physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Being resilient doesn’t mean performing at full capacity all the time. Like trees, we move through seasons—growing when conditions are right, releasing what we no longer need, and resting to regain strength. Trees survive storms because they bend with the wind, not by resisting it. By tuning into these cycles, you build steady momentum that supports long-term well-being and sustainable energy.