About you…

You’re a magical midlife woman!

You have…

friends, family, wisdom, experience, stability, a full life, career experience, hobbies, responsibilities.

You also have...

low confidence, frustrated ambitions, no time for yourself, no idea where ‘the old you’ went, a never-ending to do list, change to navigate, menopause to contend with…

You don’t want to...

feel life is rushing by, feel overwhelmed, be too exhausted and depleted to enjoy the everyday, waste any more time.

You do want to...

make time to do what you love, have more to give to those who matter most and live a colourful life!

You need...

focussed, supportive, impactful time with a specialist midlife coach who understands exactly what you’re dealing with.

Someone who is 100% in your corner and will cheer you on and support you to make the right changes in the right way.

That person is me!

About me…

Hi, I’m Jo, a qualified life coach, specialising in creative coaching for midlife women.

I bring warmth, empathy, humour, care and gentle curiosity to my coaching.

Creative coaching had a profound, transformational effect on my own life. My mission is to support other magical midlife women to experience this unique and powerful coaching journey for themselves.

I live in Lewes with my husband, Jon, and our two children Isabelle and Toby. We are a neurodiverse, blended family.

I bring to my coaching lived experience of motherhood, menopause, divorce, co-parenting, bereavement, caring for an elderly relative; navigating all those things whilst working in a demanding job.

I’ve felt the chaos, overwhelm and upheaval in being a midlife woman. I’ve also found the joy in finally stepping into myself and living my life in the way that feels right.

I’d love to support your own journey to a more colourful life!

  • EMCC accreditation

  • Over 150 hours 1:1 & group coaching experience

  • Certified The Collage Coaching Technique™ practitioner

  • Founder of Encompass Coaching

  • Co-founder of Seasons Change Workshops

  • Midlife awakening advocate and collage enthusiast

  • Passionate about supporting other women to bring colour into their lives and rediscover their mojo.

I made this collage during my training with Andréa Watts, founder of Unglue You and The Collage Coaching Technique™.

Andréa describes how ‘The combination of collage and coaching reconnects you to your inner wisdom and intuition. This creative technique is a powerful way to get unstuck as you explore and express the hidden experiences and mindsets that influence how you feel, think, and behave.’

The process of creating my collage was transformational for me. I realised how tethered I had been to expectations in my early life around what a ‘successful career’ looked like. The collaging experience reaffirmed my belief that success and ambition is deeply personal. My ambition to live a quiet, unmaterialistic, creative, calm life was entirely valid.

I connected to younger me who felt unconfident and inadequate in her choices. The image of the girl behind the ladder, and the girl with her hair over her face struck a deep chord. I felt love and compassion for that girl and could reassure her that everything she longed for had come to fruition. The woman in the centre of the collage is me now, striding confidently with clarity, energy and purpose!

This was the catalyst that led to Encompass Coaching and the Life in Colour creative coaching journey.

All from one collage!