About Jess

Professional background

I began my career in psychology and have since worked across international development, public health, community programs, research, leadership, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and behaviour change.

My work has included humanitarian and community-based programs, cross-cultural environments, government and not-for-profit settings, donor and stakeholder relationships, strategic communication, research and reporting, group facilitation, and community leadership.

I have worked with individuals, teams, organisations, and communities navigating change, pressure, complexity, and transition.

That professional background matters because the work I do now is not abstract.

It is not about vague self-discovery or giving people advice from the sidelines.

It is about helping people think clearly when the emotional and practical stakes are high.

Private client work

Today, my private work supports women at a crossroads.

Often, they are capable, thoughtful, responsible women whose lives look functional from the outside. They may have built the marriage, the career, the family, the role, the reputation, or the version of success they thought they wanted.

But somewhere underneath, something no longer fits.

A question keeps returning.

Can I keep living this way?

Is this marriage over?

Do I want this career anymore?

What am I doing with the next decade of my life?

What would be true if I stopped trying to make the current life work?

These are not small questions. They touch identity, family, money, responsibility, desire, loyalty, fear, and the future a woman thought she was building.

My role is not to tell someone what to do.

It is to create a clear, grounded space where she can hear what is true beneath the noise of expectation, fear, obligation, guilt, and other people’s opinions — and then identify the next honest step.

How I work

My approach is thoughtful, practical, direct, and emotionally attuned.

I am interested in what is true, not what sounds impressive.

I am interested in the decision beneath the decision.

I am interested in the place where a person’s body, behaviour, resentment, fatigue, longing, and private knowing are already telling the truth before the mind is ready to admit it.

The work often involves discernment, identity change, honest conversation, practical planning, and the capacity to move without abandoning yourself.

It is not about rushing a decision.

It is not about blowing up a life.

It is not about staying comfortable either.

It is about telling the truth cleanly enough that the next step becomes possible.

Writing

Alongside my private and professional work, I write essays for women questioning the lives they built — marriage, career, desire, reinvention, self-trust, and the moment something that once fit no longer does.

My writing is an extension of the same work: making the unsaid easier to see, giving language to the private questions women carry, and helping them stop arguing with what they already know.

Work with me

I work privately with women navigating marriage crossroads, career crossroads, and significant life decisions.

I also occasionally support organisations, leaders, and teams with facilitation, strategic conversations, stakeholder engagement, and communication around complexity and change.

If you are navigating a decision that touches the shape of your life or work, you can begin here.