Your Stress Coach
in London.
Less pressure. More life.
Stress coaching for professionals who feel stretched, overwhelmed or close to running on empty.
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Most people come to me wired and exhausted. That’s a warning sign. Let’s move the needle back towards calm and energetic, before it tips into burnout.
Feel alive again.
I am a firm believer in building a career you love. But there is more to life than your job, and when work takes over, the first things to go are usually the ones that keep you well: your energy, your sleep, time with the people you love and the sense that life is actually yours to enjoy.
If you feel stretched too thin, wired but exhausted or quietly worried that you are heading for burnout, stress coaching gives you the time and support to understand what is driving it and to do something about it before it does the deciding for you.
I work with professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs in London and worldwide who want to manage stress better, become more resilient and build a life that does not cost them their health.
What is stress coaching?
Stress coaching is a practical, forward-looking process that helps professionals, leaders and business owners understand the causes of their stress, develop healthier ways of responding to pressure and build lasting habits that improve resilience, wellbeing and performance.
Rather than simply managing symptoms, stress coaching helps you regain a sense of control, think more clearly and feel calmer and more energised in both your work and personal life.
When can stress coaching help?
Stress coaching can help whenever stress has started to cost you more than you are willing to pay. You might recognise some of these signs.
Constantly overwhelmed, wired or unable to switch off
More irritable than usual
Sleep and health have deteriorated
Relationships are suffering because of work
You dread going to work
You have stopped making time for the things you enjoy
These are signals worth listening to. I did not listen to mine, and I paid for it. You do not have to make the same mistake.
My approach to stress coaching.
Most people come to me believing they have a stress problem. But often, stress is only part of the picture. It is a signal that something in the way you are living or working is no longer sustainable.
Together, we will look beyond the immediate symptoms to understand what is driving the pressure you are under. We will identify the habits, expectations and patterns that keep you stuck, then develop practical ways of responding differently. My coaching combines thoughtful reflection with concrete action, helping you reduce stress while building a life that feels both successful and sustainable.
Aim for feeling alive, not just being alive.
Not sleep-walking through the daily grind, but living with energy, fulfilment and room for joy and wonder. I would love to help you enjoy life again, not just get better at coping with it.
Nobody wins if you burn out.
Look after your own needs and everybody around you wins too.
Why I became a stress coach.
I understand the pressures of high-performance careers because I have lived them myself. Before becoming a coach, I spent more than twenty years working in law and financial services in the City of London. Like many of my clients, I pushed myself hard and ignored the warning signs until a severe burnout left me seriously ill for two years.
That experience changed the course of my life. Once I recovered, I was finally brave enough to leave the golden cage of corporate life and follow my love of personal growth, something I had been drawn to since my teenage years. I retrained as an ICF-accredited coach and now combine my own experience with professional coaching and tools such as the Enneagram to help others avoid the mistakes I made.
What happens in a coaching session?
Every coaching relationship is different, but a typical process looks like this.
Discovery call
We begin with a free conversation to discuss what has brought you to coaching, answer your questions and see whether we are a good fit.
First session
We take stock of your stress levels and what is driving them, clarify what you want to change and agree how we will work together.
Ongoing coaching
We build a bespoke programme around your personal goals and challenges. We explore how to reduce or manage stress, look honestly at how satisfied you are with life as a whole and, where it helps, I teach practical techniques such as breathing, relaxation and simple ways to switch off.
Between sessions
We end each session by agreeing the actions you want to take forward.
The journey is not only what happens in our sessions. Real change tends to take hold between them, as you reflect on what we discussed and apply new approaches in everyday life.
How is stress coaching different from therapy?
This matters, so I want to be clear about it.
Forward-looking and practical
Stress coaching helps psychologically healthy people who are under too much pressure to manage it better, recover their energy and prevent burnout. Instead of delving into clinical treatments or past traumas, it focuses on building practical, forward-looking strategies to improve emotional resilience, manage overwhelm and develop healthier lifestyle habits.
The right first step for a health crisis
Therapy and medical care are the right place to start if you are dealing with clinical depression, an anxiety disorder or a health crisis. If that is where you are, coaching is not a substitute, and I will say so plainly and help you find the support you need.
For many people the two can work well together. The important thing is that you get the right help for where you actually are, and a free discovery call is a good place to work out what that is.
Why clients choose to work with me.
Credentials matter, and you can see some of mine below. What they cannot show is whether we will work well together, which often matters just as much. It is important that you resonate with my approach and feel comfortable opening up to me.
Clients choose to work with me because I understand the realities of demanding professional lives from the inside, and because I have come through burnout myself rather than only read about it. They value a coaching relationship that combines empathy with honest challenge, and that is practical enough to create real change rather than simply interesting conversations.
My aim is always the same: to help you reduce what is wearing you down, build resilience for what remains and create a life that feels worth living, not just enduring.
“His support has been invaluable in helping me develop a new outlook that is healthier and happier than where I was before.”
“Hans, with his warm and friendly approach, helped me to calm down and look at myself from a new angle. I highly recommend him.”
“I can honestly say coaching with Hans was a game changer.”
Frequently asked questions.
What is stress coaching?
Can coaching really help with burnout?
What is the difference between stress coaching and therapy?
Will I have to change or leave my job?
Do you teach practical techniques for managing stress?
How many sessions will I need?
How much does coaching cost?
Do you coach online or in person?
Is coaching confidential?
Ready to take the next step?
I ignored my own warning signs once, and it cost me two years of my life. You do not have to make the same mistake. If you are curious about whether coaching could help, I would be glad to meet you for a free discovery call to talk through what is wearing you down and what you would like to change.
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