Private Brain Mapping · One to one
Understanding how your own brain works changes what you ask of it.
A highly personalised one-to-one process grounded in applied neuroscience. Together, we map how your brain actually functions across attention, stress, sleep, hormones and cognitive load, then build practical ways of working with it inside your real life.
Not a protocol. Not a private version of NeuroSeasons. This work begins with you.
What it is
Research, translated into your Tuesday.
Private Brain Mapping begins with how your brain and body are functioning now. We look at the mechanisms underneath what you're experiencing, then build a small set of NeuroRituals® around your physiology, circumstances and constraints.
Sessions are conversations, not lectures. I'll explain the neuroscience behind what we're seeing and why I'm suggesting something, because understanding the mechanism changes the way you work with it.
Nothing here depends on you becoming more disciplined. The work is to understand the conditions your brain functions best within, then make those conditions more possible in your actual life.
What it isn't
Therapy. We work forwards from how your brain and body function now, rather than through your history in a clinical frame.
A diagnosis, an assessment or medical advice. I don't diagnose ADHD or any other condition, and I never comment on medication.
Generic life coaching. There is no accountability shaming, no vision-boarding, no five-year plan you'll abandon in March.
A protocol you must follow perfectly. Anything that only works on a good week isn't a real plan.
Who it's for
You are capable and often the person others rely on, and it costs you more than you let on.
You are curious about the science and tired of being handed affirmations instead of mechanisms.
You suspect, or know, that your attention works differently, and you'd like to stop treating that as a character flaw.
You are in a transition, or your capacity is changing, and you want to understand yourself accurately rather than be fixed.
What clients arrive with
Sentences I hear most weeks
“I can hold everything together at work and nothing at home.”
Usually a capacity-sequencing problem rather than a character one: demanding tasks take the regulated hours, and the people you love get what's left.
“I'm exhausted but I can't switch off.”
Fatigue and arousal are not opposites. A body can be depleted and still running high sympathetic tone, which is why rest may not feel restful.
“My brain won't start things I actually care about.”
Initiation is a separate mechanism from motivation. We work on the conditions that get a task started, not on wanting it more.
“I lose myself by the third week of the month.”
Cognition and mood shift measurably across hormonal cycles and transitions. Planning as though every week is identical guarantees a bad week.
Different experiences. Different mechanisms. That's why the work starts with mapping yours.
Step one
Your NeuroMap
Every private engagement begins here. The NeuroMap isn't a personality test or diagnosis. It's a working model of you: where your capacity goes, what reliably changes it, which conditions support your brain, where friction keeps appearing and where the most useful leverage may be.
Sleep & circadian rhythm
Timing, quality, light exposure, and what your evenings are doing to your mornings.
Attention & executive load
Where focus reliably appears, where it collapses, and how much task-switching your day demands.
Stress & recovery
Baseline arousal, what activates you, and whether you have any genuine down-regulation in the day.
Cycle, hormones & season
How your capacity moves across weeks and months, and what you are currently expecting of it anyway.
Relationships & support
Co-regulation, isolation, and who your nervous system is actually resourced by.
You receive your NeuroMap in writing, and it becomes the working document underneath everything we do next.
From there, we build your NeuroRituals®: small, deliberate practices that translate what we're learning about your brain into the way you actually live. They might work with sleep and light, regulation, attention, movement, recovery or the rhythms of your day. We test what helps, notice what doesn't, and keep adapting them as your capacity, circumstances and needs change.
Three ways to work together
Choose the depth, not the package
One deep session
The NeuroMap
£350
For when you want a clear, evidence-informed picture of how you're functioning now and where to begin.
- Pre-session assessment across sleep, attention, stress, cycle and load
- 90-minute private session
- Written NeuroMap
- Your first three NeuroRituals®
- One follow-up message exchange after two weeks
Best for: Clarity, orientation and a strong place to begin.
Apply for a NeuroMapThree months · six sessions
The Season
£1,500
The core private experience. We use your NeuroMap as a living document, testing what works, noticing what changes and adapting the work as it meets your actual life.
- Everything in The NeuroMap
- Six 60-minute sessions, fortnightly
- An evolving NeuroRituals® plan reviewed each session
- Voice-note support between sessions
- Reading and practice notes selected specifically for you
Best for: Working deeply with a particular pattern, transition or season of life.
Apply for The SeasonSix months · ongoing private work
The Six Months
£2,500
For women who want deeper continuity: enough time to see patterns across changing circumstances, refine the NeuroMap as life changes and build ways of working with their brain that become increasingly their own.
- Everything in The Season
- 12 private sessions across six months
- Two formal NeuroMap reviews and updates
- Ongoing refinement of your NeuroRituals®
- Direct voice-note support between sessions
- Personally selected reading, research and practices
- A final integration session + updated NeuroMap
Best for: Complex transitions, sustained change, or women who want a longer private engagement rather than a single intervention.
Apply for The Six MonthsInstalments are available on The Season and The Six Months. I hold a small number of reduced-fee places each year for women on parental leave or in transition, mention it in your application, without explanation if you'd rather.
Questions
Before you apply
Applications
Private work is intentionally limited.
The application is a short questionnaire, ten minutes, honest answers, no polish required. If it looks like a fit I'll offer you a free twenty-minute conversation. If it doesn't, I'll tell you and point you somewhere more useful.
Ten minutes, in your own words.
Please note. Private Brain Mapping is education and coaching grounded in neuroscience. It is not medical care, psychological therapy, psychiatric treatment or a diagnostic service, and it is not a substitute for any of them. I do not diagnose conditions, interpret test results, or advise on medication, always speak with your doctor or prescriber about those. If you are in crisis, or at risk of harming yourself, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line rather than filling in this form.
The Soulful Brain Letter
Notes on the Brain and Real Life
Roughly once or twice a month, I write about the things I'm researching, questioning and noticing, in the science, in my work, and in the middle of ordinary life. Sometimes practical, sometimes personal, always through the lens of the brain.