London · Bristol · Online
For professionals carrying responsibility, pressure and success who want more freedom, meaning and connection.
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Welcome
I help people understand and change the deeper patterns that success may have required them to develop in order to succeed. Many capable people have learned to cope by overworking, staying in control, pushing through, intellectualising, or solving problems alone. These strategies may once have helped them thrive, but over time they can become the very patterns that keep them stuck.
About
Psychotherapist & Executive Coach
BACP Registered Psychotherapist·APECS Accredited Executive Master Coach·Former City Lawyer
Founder of MyMagellan Therapy, working with high performing individuals, couples and organisations in London, Bristol and online.
I work collaboratively with my clients to explore how patterns developed, what they protected, and how they may now be costing them the change they seek. Together, we create a space where insight becomes action, and where change is both emotionally grounded and practically lived.
As an executive coach and former City lawyer, I am familiar with navigating systems of power in organisations, families and competing cultural contexts. As a therapist, I understand how what once helped the capable, high performer succeed can also lead to burnout, anxiety, loneliness, emptiness in success and feeling stuck. My work bridges psychotherapy and executive coaching to support people who carry responsibility, pressure and achievement, and who want more freedom, meaning and connection in their lives.
Sessions in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Online via Google Meet, WhatsApp and Zoom.
Who I work with
Many high performing individuals look capable on the outside, yet privately carry pressure, responsibility, emotional strain or a sense of being alone with what they hold. I work with people whose success has required patterns of behaviour that once paid off, but now keep them stuck, disconnected or repeating cycles they want to change.
For those used to navigating systems of power in organisations, families or competing cultural contexts. People who carry responsibility, drive and achievement, yet feel burnt out, anxious, lonely or unsure who they are beyond performance. Often these are individuals whose success masks a deeper sense of emptiness, exhaustion or emotional disconnection, and who want a confidential space to explore what is happening beneath the surface.
For people who find themselves repeating patterns of behaviour that lead to frustration, conflict, emotional distance or feeling stuck. This includes relationship dynamics, career transitions, identity shifts, grief, anger and the personal cost of achievement. The work focuses on understanding how these patterns developed, what they protected, and how they can be loosened so new ways of relating and living become possible.
For leaders and professionals who want a relational approach to doing business, one that recognises the human impact of responsibility, pressure and organisational complexity. This is a confidential space for those who do not want to perform, advise or manage, but instead reflect, understand and recalibrate.
The signature of my work
Many people find that coaching and therapy each offer something valuable, but also leave something missing. My work brings these together so change becomes both emotionally grounded and practically lived.
Creates momentum, focus and action, but can sometimes move too quickly, without the deeper insight needed for sustainable change.
Creates emotional understanding, depth and clarity, but can sometimes stay reflective, without the action needed to make change real.
My approach integrates both: psychological depth with practical movement. Insight becomes action, and action is rooted in understanding, so change becomes real in your life, work and relationships.
Approach
My work sits in the space between psychotherapy and executive coaching. Below are the main ways we can work together.
For adults and older adults. Burnout, anxiety, loneliness, self-worth, emotional disconnection, grief, anger, perfectionism and work related stress.
Relationship patterns, emotional distance, communication breakdown, life transitions, and the impact of achievement on intimacy.
With therapeutic depth. For leaders and professionals navigating identity, responsibility, succession, career transitions and the personal cost of success.
A confidential space for senior professionals, with the potential for tailored programmes designed around your organisation.
The approach
Slowing down enough to notice your thoughts, feelings and patterns with curiosity rather than criticism.
Exploring how those patterns developed, often as strategies that once helped you succeed.
Translating insight into concrete shifts in how you live, work and relate, so change becomes real rather than theoretical.
How we work
A 15 to 30 minute conversation to understand what you're bringing, whether my experience is the right fit, and whether you feel comfortable working together.
We agree a focus and work together for six sessions, followed by a review.
If helpful, we move into more open ended work to explore deeper patterns and longer standing themes.
Areas I work with
Ancillary Services
Alongside psychotherapy and executive coaching, some clients benefit from additional practical support that helps them understand stress, recovery, financial transitions and behavioural patterns. These optional ancillary services complement the therapeutic work and provide real world tools for high performing individuals.
For clients who want to understand how stress, recovery and emotional strain show up physiologically, wearable technology can provide helpful data. Devices such as Oura, Whoop or Apple Watch can track sleep, heart rate variability, recovery patterns and stress responses.
This information can be integrated into coaching or therapeutic work to support behavioural change, burnout recovery, emotional regulation and sustainable performance.
Many high performing individuals experience stress, identity shifts or emotional strain around financial transitions. This may include redundancy, career change, compensation changes, succession, wealth related pressure or navigating complex organisational or family systems.
This optional support focuses on financial wellbeing, decision making clarity and the emotional impact of financial change.
These services are not therapy or coaching themselves, but optional additions for clients who want practical tools alongside their psychological work.
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Locations
I work both in person and online, with practices in London and Bristol, and clients across the UK and internationally.
Great Marlborough Street, W1F 7JD
Harley Street adjacent, central and discreet. A few minutes from Oxford Circus, easy to reach between meetings.
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Penny Brohn UK, BS20 0HH
A calm environment with the feel of a retreat, with gardens and space to think; a different pace to the working week.
View on mapAvailable via Google Meet, WhatsApp and Zoom, including for British expats and English speaking professionals abroad. Sessions are also offered in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Contact & booking
There is no expectation to explain everything perfectly. The chemistry session is simply a chance to see whether this feels like the right fit.
The therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest predictors of meaningful outcomes. What we build together, trust, clarity, safety and momentum, is central to how change unfolds.
There is no expectation to explain everything perfectly. The chemistry session is simply a chance to see whether this feels like the right fit, and whether the relationship between us supports the work you want to do.