State of Mind and Body Coaching

Coaching to help you operate from clarity, authenticity, collaboration, compassion and purpose

Your state of mind and body shapes everything — how you communicate, regulate under pressure, perform and build relationships. It also generates confidence and wellbeing.

This coaching combines a reflective space with practical understanding of how your mind and body work together to create your experience of life, so you're not just managing symptoms but creating a lasting shift in understanding how you are ongoingly designed to be able to recover, adapt and thrive.

The coaching can happen wherever it fits you best — ongoing sessions in person or online, or through an immersive nature-based retreat.

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Transformative, at a time my life when I couldn’t have needed it more.

— Kevin, Environment Agency

burnout recovery

This support may be right for you if…

  • You feel overreactive, persistently tired, stretched, or close to burnout

  • You're carrying anxiety, overwhelm, or stress that's becoming hard to shift

  • Work has lost its sense of purpose or satisfaction

  • Communication or relationships at work or at home feel harder than they should

  • You carry significant responsibility for people, outcomes, or decisions

  • You are navigating change, uncertainty, or transition

  • You want to understand what's actually driving your resilience, wellbeing, and performance — not just cope with the symptoms

You don’t need to be in crisis.
Often, the wisest moment to seek support is simply when you notice something inside asking for space.

If your work involves humanitarian deployment, film production, offshore projects, operational deployment or long rotations in healthcare, you may find Field Reset Retreats - built specifically around that rhythm of intensity and return, a closer fit.

What This Coaching Addresses

Understanding your state of mind and body
How it creates your experience of life - including how your nervous system regulates under pressure, and how to find genuine equilibrium rather than just push through.

Burnout prevention and recovery
Whether you're already feeling the effects or want to build resilience before you get there — understanding what depletes you, and what restores you, changes the pattern going forward.

Communication and relationships
Enhancing your capacity to see things differently which makes difficult conversations, collaboration, and meaningful relationships easier — at work and at home.

Confidence, creativity, and performance
Discovering whats at the source of your confidence, creativity and performance makes it easier to tune into.

What to expect

burnout recovery

Recovery and transformation here is not driven. It unfolds naturally, through conversations, reflections and gentle awareness raising exercises in a way that lasts, through application, insights and shifts in understanding.

1:1 coaching conversations can take place regularly online or in person with a chance to apply learning to life in between sessions.

Or if you looking for something more immersive, I also offer 3-5 day coaching immersions that are designed to be restorative and replenishing away from the noise and urgency of daily life. Sessions take place walking in beautiful locations on Dartmoor and the South Hams coast as well as in the field or studio room with plenty of time to rest and relax in the field, natural swim pool and sauna.

You can stay in our luxurious shepherds hut in the field, or book accommodation near by

Follow up sessions and intake call is available online or in person

Details about Nature-based Coaching Immersions here

Working with Kirstien

I’m a psychologist, coach, and educator with a PhD in Organisational and Social Psychology and a background spanning health and social care, leadership development, and international relief work.

For many years, I have supported professionals, leaders, and helpers who care deeply about their work and the people they serve, yet find themselves carrying more than is sustainable alone.

I guide people to see how they are innately resilient and capable of adapting and thriving regardless of the situation. This universal intelligence lives within us all. However, a lack of awareness of this natural capacity and how to support it, can result in unnecessary suffering and limitations.

I am committed to supporting your growth and wellbeing, in my experience this is best watered and nourished through listening, light-heartedness, compassion, frankness and love.

More information about working with me
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Endorsements

  • This is something which will stick with me for life and actually grows more.

    I found the learning on the course to be enlightening and it is something that always feels like it’s there, unlike other training or courses, the content of which fades quite quickly. This is something that will stick with me for life and actually grows more”.

    Tom Toogood, Technical Advisor, Environment Agency. (1 year on from undertaking Resilience Program)

  • The big difference with this course is its permanency

    The big difference with this course compared to other mental health/wellbeing interventions is it’s permanency.

    It is about building resilience now and for the future to sustain mental wellbeing rather than to fix a short term or immediate crisis.”

    Mark Russell, Head of Centre, Environment Agency. (1 year on from attending Resilience Program)

  • The glasses need to be viewed so you can realise your own presence and peace

    It was like being given pair of new glasses to see the world. The glasses might shakeup everything you thought or they might deepen everything you already knew. Whatever they do the glasses need to be viewed so you can realise your own presence and peace.

    Gina Hayes, Yoga Teacher, Director of Yoga Sunshine - small group coaching program

  • I have found myself in a calmer place since doing the RAW training...

    I felt something really shifted in me in a positive way that day. Kirstien was a very skillful facilitator finding the right balance of giving psychological theory for reflection and holding space for people to talk. I felt really heard and validated and it was very team building too. I have found myself in a calmer place since doing the RAW training and much more present. The venue is absolutely beautiful in nature and very peaceful, the perfect environment to have an away day, let go of work and come back to the self and re-set.

    Anna Berkley. Midwife. Attended 1 day RAW training

  • I now have a completely different appreciation for life, people and perspectives.

    “This course is a life-changer and a game-changer. I have a completely different appreciation for life, people and perspectives. I also am stress and anxiety free. I really now also understand how damaging and pointless that anxiety and stress was”.

    Mark Roden - Operations Manager (1 Year on from undertaking Resilience program)

  • It didn't feel like pressure just a gentle teasing in a new direction

    “Everything was encouraged, allowed - there were no rights and wrong with how things landed for us. It didn't feel like pressure just a gentle teasing in a new direction. Loved it!"

    Sophia Chowdry, Film Set Decorator - small group coaching program

  • I have felt myself feel more settled, more accepting of myself and more able to meet the challenges in my life.

    Thank you so much Kirstien and Sarah. This has been a brilliant experience. Week by week I have felt myself feel more settled, more accepting of myself and more able to meet the challenges in my life. From the moment I set foot in the field, you helped me to feel welcome and at ease. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to spend time with such a wise, kind group of people in such a beautiful space.

    Tallulah Street, Yoga Teacher (after 3 month psychological fitness program)

  • I've seen its possible to live without blame and let go of heaviness from the past

    “I’ve touched an incredible deep sense of wellbeing that can’t be taken away, even by illness or death.

    In my moments of insight I have felt light and free, and really really well in a deeply peaceful way. I’ve seen that it’s possible to live without blame and to let go of lots of heaviness from the past I was still carrying”.

    Pip Jones Mindfulness & Breathworks Director of Skylarker, after 6-month small group coaching program

  • I am motivated to take on the world with new ideas and a fresh perspective.

    “Every time I speak to Kirstien I am, myself, motivated to take on the world with new ideas and a fresh perspective, and I am grateful to have got to know her over these last years.”

    Sara Ledger, Research & Development Manager, Babylifeline

  • I find Kirstien's commitment to transforming issues and difficulties refreshing and inspiring

    I have had the pleasure of working with Kirstien for over 5 years. As well as becoming a valued friend my experience is that she brings with her a high level of willingness to create great relationships, great work and has consistently produced great results. I find her commitment to transforming issues and difficulties refreshing and inspiring and I am constantly surprised at her level of ability in perceiving what works. I know that her wealth of personal qualities and background experience will always make a big difference for people.

    Simon Daly, Director InterBe, Transformative Learning & Development

  • Nothing has come as close to being as transformative

    In my 20 years in the workplace I have experienced a lot of training. Nothing has come close to being as transformative as what Kirstien and Claire invited us to experience. If you get the chance, take it in a heartbeat!

    Dr Crystal Moore, Deputy Director Head Flood and Incidence Management, Environment Agency after 1 year Resilience Program