Community & Compassionate Curiosity
About Stella
I’m Stella.
I’m here to work with you to help you discover different ways to do and be what you want in life.
Ensuring client safety is central to my practice.
I am accredited by the EMCC and adhere to its Global Code of Ethics. I am DBS checked, have Level 2 safeguarding training, and undertake regular group and individual supervision. This helps ensure that I can support your needs safely and ethically, while continuing to develop my practice through ongoing professional development.
Compassionate Curiosity sums up my approach to coaching. I’m here to listen to you, learn from you and help facilitate your learning, so that you can flourish—whatever flourishing is for you. I advocate for self-acceptance and self-compassion.
I create space to think. Sometimes that means slowing down, sitting with uncertainty or finding words gradually. At times, metaphor, imagery or free writing can offer another way into what is important, always guided by what feels useful to you.
As an EMCC accredited coach and an experienced facilitator with an MA in Coaching and Mentoring, I support people on whatever they bring covering change, career direction, confidence, self-understanding and finding ways of living and working that are more sustainable—for themselves and for the world around them.
I work in a neurodiversity-informed way, with particular interests in ADHD and rejection sensitivity; my MA dissertation explored people’s lived experiences of rejection sensitivity. You can hear me talk about rejection sensitivity and RSD on the Even the Dog Has ADHD podcast. I continue to develop my practice through membership of Neuro Directions, a professional community offering supervision, CPD and connection for coaches supporting neurodivergent people.
Alongside one-to-one coaching, I bring experience of facilitating groups, reflective practice and community learning, as well as community leadership, team management and building connections between people. I am interested in creating well-held, inclusive spaces in which people can think together, express themselves with confidence and find shared understanding. This includes facilitating a women’s group which brings women together around food, conversation and mutual support, creating space to learn about one another’s projects, ideas, achievements and businesses.
I also bring more than 20 years’ experience in sustainability and carbon. I offer climate and sustainability coaching for people who want to explore how they can respond to the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful, sustainable and suited to their own circumstances. I have trained in climate change coaching with Climate Change Coaches.
My work is grounded in care, curiosity and the belief that people and communities have valuable knowledge, strengths and possibilities to build from.