Recovery & Resilience Coach
Karen is a Movement & Resilience Coach with 17 years’ experience in movement, health and recovery, helping people build stronger, more capable and resilient bodies.
With an early background in ballet and a previous career in the corporate and legal world, her route into health and movement has been anything but conventional. She is a Senior Yoga Teacher, qualified Gym Instructor and Health Coach, with specialist training in menopause and gut health yoga, aerial yoga and aerial back care. She is currently completing her Personal Training qualification as she continues to develop her work in exercise and physical resilience.
Over the past 17 years, Karen has taught extensively in both private and workplace settings, including delivering programmes for local businesses and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. She has also used adapted yoga and aerial movement within rehabilitation programmes, supporting people returning to movement following surgery, chronic illness and periods of poor health.
Her approach starts with the person, not the programme.
Whether someone is beginning exercise, returning after time away, rebuilding strength and confidence, future-proofing their body or ready to challenge themselves further, Karen meets them where they are and helps them progress from there.
Her work brings together exercise, movement and health coaching, drawing on her wider experience as an Award-winning Reflexologist and Sports Massage Therapist when appropriate.
Karen’s goal is simple: to help people become stronger, move well and feel confident in what their body can do.
Qualifications & Experience
- Health Coach specialising in stress, recovery & resilience
- Senior Yoga Teacher (17 years)
- Reflexologist & Sports Massage Therapist
- Level 2 Gym Instructor
- Specialist training in menopause, digestive health, burnout & aerial yoga for back care
Breadth of experience
This breadth of experience allows me to bridge a gap I see all the time:
Most fitness professionals don’t fully understand the impact of chronic stress and recovery.
Most wellbeing practitioners don’t fully understand physical resilience and conditioning.
My work brings both together.
Because sustainable resilience isn’t built through mindset alone.
It’s built by supporting the whole person.
If you’re tired of ending up back in the same place, you’re in the right place.
Whether through group coaching or 1:1 support, the focus is always the same
Helping you feel more steady, more clear, and more in control—in a way that fits your actual day-to-day life.
If you’re tired of carrying this in the same way.
There’s a different way to handle it.