About Nicholas

People sometimes ask how a communications consultant ends up training as a counsellor. The honest answer is that the part of the old work I loved most was never the communications — it was helping people navigate change. For fifteen years I worked with executives and organisations across Asia through restructures, relocations, new leadership, and the kind of announcements no one wants to make. The work that stayed with me wasn't the strategy decks or the town halls. It was the quieter conversations afterwards: the manager worried he wasn't cut out for the new role, the employee trying to decide whether to stay or go, the leader who couldn't quite say what was actually wrong. What I noticed, over and over, was that the situation itself was rarely the problem. The problem was the story people were telling themselves about the situation — and when that story shifted, even slightly, so did everything else. Change doesn't only come from boardrooms. It comes from a marriage that's lost its rhythm, a teenager who's pulling away, a move across the world, a career that once fit and suddenly doesn't, a loss that rearranges everything.

Most of my clients arrive at a threshold of some kind, looking for a clearer sense of what's happening and what to do about it.