Thomasina Unsworth

‘Coming to coaching for the first time, I couldn’t have had a better experience than I had with Thomasina: she was clear, helpful, supportive, never made me feel under pressure, and really made me feel I made progress with where I was at. I would recommend Thomasina to anyone struggling with their focus or direction, anyone who needs help finding their way through the woods, or anyone who simply feels the need for a fresh start.’

Oliver Senton Actor

My sessions with Thomasina offered a safe and non-judgmental space, where I felt comfortable being open and vulnerable right from the start. Each conversation unfolded naturally, with Thomasina gently guiding the dialogue to explore underlying themes and broader contexts without ever offering advice or imposing direction. Her caring approach — and great sense of humour — made each session both grounding and up-lifting.

Ines Jorge – Researcher and Art Historian

Thomasina has been the best coach I’ve worked with; she is so kind and generous. She creates a really warm and comfortable environment, never passing judgement or trying to direct conversation.
She is very in tune with her clients, noticing small body language changes and utilising this to help dig deeper and find the heart of the topic. She is able to provide guidance and ask helpful topics whilst remaining neutral and supportive.

Thomasina has helped me through an incredibly difficult time with work, and helped me find freedom from the negativity and focus on investing in my own wellbeing, I am so grateful!
I would absolutely recommend her as a coach, she is fab!

Mathilde Petford Producer/Director/Theatre Maker

Rosie Fleeshman Actor, Writer, Singer

Thomasina is a powerhouse, innovative, uber intelligent and insightful. Thomasina understands so much about the mind body and soul. She understands what drives a person instinctively and has helped me through some very tricky and challenging times in my life emotionally. I highly recommend Thomasina’s services the wealth of experience and empathy bought to each session is amazing and always supportive.

Carol Harvey Barnes. Academic.

I approached Thomasina as I was feeling a degree of anxiety about a play I had written, which I was also about to act in. Sometimes that anxiety bordered on panic. Thomasina was an empathetic and calming presence, who also felt deeply invested in my particular dilemma. She offered me not only a plethora of very practical tips and tricks in order to deal with both writer’s stress and actor’s anxiety, but was also somehow always in my corner if and when I needed her. It’s one thing getting opportunities, it another being able to enjoy them. Working with Thomasina definitely helped me to allow myself to do much more of the latter. I wholeheartedly recommend her.

Neil De Souza Actor and Writer

As a self-employed creative artist, it’s easy to get caught up in a single direction. Through my sessions with Thomasina, I’ve learned to organize my work regimen and build my mental confidence, recognising my full potential and abilities. It’s one thing to have others praise your work, but truly believing in your own talent propels you to greater heights. These sessions have strengthened my self-confidence, clarified my goals, and transformed my work ethic and mental well-being. Thomasina’s patience, respect, and thoughtful consideration in our sessions have been invaluable in helping me find and understand myself.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lee Payne. Dancer and teacher

I worked with Thomasina for 5 sessions. I went to her because there was a growing dissatisfaction with my work and the direction of my career. I had lost confidence in the ability to make choices. Thomasina was immediately clear on the way we would work together which was very reassuring. What was absolutely brilliant from her first session was that Thomasina guided me to find my own solutions. Through gentle but clear questioning, empathy but also challenging enquiry, Thomasina enabled me to clarify my own thoughts. Thomasina was also practical, setting, what felt like reasonable goals, specific times to do these goals and we visited them each time we met to discuss outcomes and reasons why they may or may not have happened. The act of commitment with someone supporting and challenging you really helped me to move forward. This felt a very safe environment which, although clearly led and guided by Thomasina, empowered me to have confidence in my own voice again.

Fiona Dunn. Director, Writer, Actor

“It is always hard for a writer to talk clearly and eloquently about their work in public, but it is especially difficult for a writer whose mother tongue is not English. In just a short time with Thomasina I immediately felt more confident about my breathing, pronunciation and presentation. She gave me useful skills that I remind myself of every time I have to talk about my books or films at festivals or on the radio or TV”

Xialolu Guo, writer and filmmaker

Thomasina gave me a completely non-judgmental space in which to first identify the issues making me feel “stuck” and then discover practical ways to address them. The solutions I came up with in conversation with Thomasina were simple but potentially life-changing.For example, instead of trying to fight my procrastination by berating myself (useless!) I decided to take a “reduce rather than eliminate” approach, consciously shortening the periods I spent procrastinating. I realised I work better in mornings, so decided to get up earlier and shift the pattern of the day. I also worked on ways to tackle my difficulty in making small decisions by putting a list of tasks into a ‘hat’- surprisingly effective! Thomasina’s approach was the perfect mix of common-sense, empathy and warmth.

Tania Thaler, Writer

Thomasina is an outstanding coach who has allowed me to discover so much within our sessions.

Sometimes I have attended a session thinking that I’d like to discuss something specific, or indeed not knowing what I’d like to discuss, but then within the hour I can be surprised at what topics have come up. There is always a moment (at least one!) within each session where I make a discovery, and at times these have been profound.

There is a mixture of exploring feelings and reasons for these, understanding my current circumstances, and planning pragmatic solutions and actions.

There is a lot of information I have written down, reflected on, and used to inform direct action in my life.

Thomasina has helped me to unpick a lot of different thoughts and confusion that has at times felt overwhelming, and to create an approach that is more manageable and feels hopeful.

Thomasina is patient, calm, understanding and makes me feel very comfortable to share honest thoughts, information and feelings. Thomasina has also helped me to believe that I can achieve the changes I am looking for, and to also take time to value the positive attributes I possess/aspects of my life I can enjoy and build on.

Adam Davenport, College Principal

The eight sessions I had with Thomasina Unsworth were extraordinarily helpful. I started the sessions thinking I needed help to make a decision, but rapidly realised, through Thomasina’s careful guidance, that I had already made the decision and in fact needed help implementing it.The sessions helped me with every aspect of that implementation: Planning on a practical level in terms of prioritising and timetabling, clarifying what needed to be done and why, coping with the fear and anxiety that came with the decision, overcoming the lack of confidence and assertiveness that was holding me back from implementing the decision in the right way. The way in which Thomasina used language to adjust my thinking – helping me rephrase the way I was expressing things in order to lead to better understanding and better actions – was skilled and illuminating. Her warmth, companionship and encouragement made what could have been a lonely, frightening process much more enjoyable and happy. I found the experience of working with her transformative, and was deeply impressed by her expertise.

Rebecca Carter, Literary Agent

I found my coach Thomasina exceptionally supportive and intuitive with her coaching approach. She was an attentive listener and was really able to challenge me to explore current issues and obstacles head on. She ensured I remained focused on my intentions and goals whilst exploring my way of thinking and values. Thomasina allowed space and time for me to reflect on patterns and repetitive language I was unaware of using.

The sessions with Thomasina really helped me gain clarity and enabled me to move forward and make big decisions with ease and confidence.

Thomasina is incredibly professional and non judgemental, she created a safe space for me to talk freely and allow for new ideas to appear and self awareness to grow.

A Big thank you!

Chloe Cockburn, Life Coach

It is safe to say I needed to make a change in various aspects of my life but I had no clue where to begin until I met Thomasina.

Thomasina helped me break down each area that felt confusing or was creating a negative impact on my life. She challenged me to rethink in a more positive mindset. She helped me to realise my strengths along with working with me to fight my challenges step by step.

Thomasina is a fantastic coach. She brings warmth and genuine care in a safe space. I felt really listened to and heard. I wouldn’t have had the courage to move forward without her support.

Katie Davy, Head of Admissions

I began speaking with Thomasina at a turning point in my personal and professional life. I was very unsure about my goals.

During our first session, I can remember the plethora of times it crossed my mind to say “I’m not exactly sure. I’ll have to think about this and get back to you.” Thomasina challenged me to dig deeper and say what I was thinking in the moment. She helped me to iterate how I envision an ideal life/job when I wasn’t sure what the end goal would be, and eventually, to figure out what the end goal(s) was/were.

Thanks to Thomasina’s support, I started a career that offers me security and stability and suits all of the goals I discovered during and between our sessions. I also dug deeper into other passions and projects that I was not pursuing as much as I wanted to and honed in (or out, rather) on the activities I found myself to not be all too interested in.

I would (and have) highly recommend Thomasina to others for life coaching support.

Cailynn Chase, Environmentalist

Thomasina really helped me to look at situations in a different way and question the way I view myself and my abilities. She had a very calm and reassuring approach which made me feel safe and secure. I never felt judged or anxious when talking to her about the aspects of my life that I wanted to change. After every session, I felt calmer and more positive. I felt Thomasina enabled me to find strategies to deal with sitautions I was unhappy with. I found the goal setting after every session so useful, as it helped me to focus on specific aspects before our next session. It was very rewarding to be able to report back successes at the start of every new session. It made me feel empowered that I had been able to make changes which were beneficial to my happiness and well-being.

I loved the way that Thomasina challenged me on my thinking in a very kind and calm manner. She would gently ask me for evidence on my preconceptions, and she would help me to see situations from a different stance without telling me what to do. This really helped me to believe that I could achieve my goals and that I wasn’t being unreasonable for wanting to change certain aspects of my life.

I would always look forward to my sessions with Thomasina, as I knew that by the end of every session I would come away feeling more positive and enabled in my quest to achieve my goals. I felt that things were clearer in my own mind about what I needed to do and change.As a result of my sessions with Thomasina, I feel that my dreams could become reality, and that there is no reason why I can’t take the steps I need to take in order to turn my life around. I feel that I can move forward in the direction that I want my life to take, rather than stick with old ways which were not making me happy. This feeling of empowerment is priceless, as is the feeling that I can make change happen.

Katerina Mills, Teacher