About

You’re a sensitive, empathetic, kind-hearted soul who puts everyone else’s needs before your own and hides your hurt behind a mask of busy-ness.

You’ve created a beautiful life for yourself, career, home-life, but feel unable to enjoy it, always on the edge of feeling like you’re going to sink back into the abyss you were in, before. It doesn’t take much to overwhelm you, and knock you off balance and you frequently find yourself erupting in temper at the smallest provocation, or aimlessly scrolling on your phone for hours, blocking out the day.

ReConnected Life is a queer-friendly space (I am bisexual), and I support my trans sisters, brothers, and non-binary people to be all who they are.

Image of trauma recovery support coach Emily, a middle-aged white woman with cropped hair. She is sitting in a café with her chin resting on her hands. She is looking off to side and smiling

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

– Maya Angelou

Image of a woman at the top of one mountain looking out onto the view & more mountains. It is a very serene & special feel. It depicts the feeling of having gone on a trauma recovery journey.

Wouldn’t you like to feel that shift for yourself? In yourself? To let go of your shame and self-blame? To feel on solid ground, to trust life?

If you’ve been holding on for years, or even decades…
If you thought you’d always be broken…
If you thought this was the best life could be…
If you’ve built a life, career, family but feel like you’re holding on by a thread…
If you’re disassociated from your body, it’s just a vehicle you live in…
If loving yourself is a far-off concept…
If intimacy is disconnected, or impossible…
If you desperately yearn for something more…

That’s where I come in…

Image of trauma recovery support coach Emily, a middle-aged white woman with cropped hair. Emily is outside & looking away from the camera. Her face is dappled by the sun and there is green foliage in the foreground. She looks happy & at peace.

Hi, I’m Emily

I specialise in helping women let go for good of the hurt that was done to them in the past. Trauma recovery is not a one-size fits all, it needs to be a holistic whole-bodied and mind approach that is tailored to your individual needs and your individual life experiences. I’ve been helping women heal their wounds and become their own self-rescuers for almost 10 years.

My passion is passing on the knowledge and learning that enabled me to feel whole and ReConnected, so that you can too. I hold space for you to find your answers, gently guiding you and signposting the way. I’ll teach you how to reconnect body and mind, throw off the old stories and create new ones, and how to fall in love with you.

My story

I’m a survivor of rape, a bad date gone wrong, that almost ended my life. I’m also a neuro-diverse, highly sensitive person, and live with a chronic illness (MS) and associated chronic pain and fatigue. Getting out to the other side of perimenopause is ‘interesting.’

I believe that all of these factors make the experience of trauma more profound and complex to navigate and have noticed this often in my clients. What I have learned is that the trope that we will be ‘forever broken’ keeps us small, and that it is blatantly not true.

I’m not broken, I never was, just wounded, and it is possible to heal.

As soon as I believed that I was worthy of love, recovery started to become a reality. The pieces that were fragmented and mismatched started to align, and this Humpty-Dumpty girl was able to put herself back together.

My coaching is the result of years of study, training, and real-life experiments on myself.

I’ve been honoured to have my online guided self-help licenced by charities across the UK since 2017 so that help can be offered at the time of greatest need.

Almost 20 charities now offer Taste of Recovery, and Swansea University has become the first higher education institution to do so in 2024.

I’m an NLP Master Practitioner (neuro-linguistic programming), certified with the ICF (international coach federation), and a certified One of many women’s coach too.

I consult to create trauma-safe workplaces, coach internationally, and am based in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

My Mission

I want to help you live your life feeling like a whole person, not parts of a person.

Surviving is hard work, and exhausting on our mental wellbeing.

You deserve to feel safe, you deserve joy, you deserve love.

I’ve tried and tested a lot of approaches, so you can start thriving and living the life you dream of.

What people say

Of course, maintaining anonymity is very important to many of my clients. Names have only been attributed with explicit consent.

“Working with Emily is amazing, she just understands exactly what I need so much better than any therapist I have ever worked with. I have been dealing with this stuff for a very long time now, and really feel like I am making those big, deep changes that are sustainable. Emily’s way of working is so gentle yet so supportive and empowering, encouraging me to take ownership of myself and my responses to the world. She has totally got my back through this, and that is exactly what I need right now.”

Lucy, business owner, wife, and mother

“It was only last year that everything felt impossible most of the time, and I can’t remember having a bad Clare-day in months. The worst day I’ve had in the last few months probably has more in common with one of my not-so-bad days last year.”

Clare Naughton, business owner, wife and mother

“I couldn't look in a mirror – now I'm comfortable making videos. I felt shame and depression on a regular basis, now I enjoy going out with friends regularly and feel so positive about my life and relationships.

I laugh more, joke more, dance more – she really has given me back my life through her amazing programme of guided meditations, helpful strategies, and coaching and challenging me in a caring way.

You deserve this programme so find a way to get on it – you won't regret it. Regret is another thing you'll leave behind.

NB., teacher, wife, and mother.