Are sessions online or in person?

All sessions are conducted online via Zoom or your preferred platform.

What's the difference between coaching and therapy?

Therapy focuses on how the past creates the present, coaching on how the present creates the future. Coaching is present-focused and goal-oriented.

What happens in the first session?

The first session begins with you establishing your goal for that session. We explore what's on your mind and build clarity through structured inquiry.

Writing & Resources

Evidence Based techniques

for Profound Transformation

where science meets self discovery.

Coaching is a present / future focused process designed to support you in accessing your own insight & capacity for change.

My role is not to direct or advise, but to create the conditions for you to discover your unique answers.

These writings are reflections on evidence based coaching & the human condition, not prescriptions. Take what resonates. Leave what doesn't.

Gillian Barden 01/08/2025 Gillian Barden 01/08/2025

experimenting with sobriety: a love letter

This paper explores a nervous system informed framework for understanding alcohol cessation. Drawing on polyvagal theory, addiction neuroscience, and interoception research, it repositions sobriety as both a physiological training practice and an act of radical self love.