My story
I love helping people experience life differently — with more ease, clarity and a deeper sense of being at home in themselves.
For a long time, I wasn’t – at least not mentally and physically.
After struggling with an eating disorder in my teens and early 20s I dived into a career in the City firstly in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then in financial PR. I may have looked like I was doing well from the outside but inwardly I was struggling with anxiety, insecurity and chronic fatigue. I didn’t realise the impact that my state of mind and the way I was living were having on how I felt and how I was showing up.
A turning point came for me when I took a year out to study for an MA in Classical Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. At drama school, there was nowhere to hide. Metaphorically speaking, I was stripped bare, which was momentarily terrifying, but eternally liberating.
Again and again, I was told ‘get out of your head’. And slowly but surely, the penny began to drop - we have choice - something I see so deeply now.
Whilst at drama school I also became fascinated by how often we feel we need to present a version of ourselves to fit in, to be accepted, to belong. I even ended up writing my dissertation on the concept of the social mask.
In the years that followed, I became increasingly curious about what really helps people thrive. I founded a personal training business, working with busy professionals and quickly realised that my ‘beasting session’ wasn’t enough. In order to create real change, we needed to look at what was happening outside of the sessions too – sleep, nutrition, movement and I would suggest most importantly as it plays into all others - state of mind.
Motivated by the fact most of my clients were busy professionals, in 2013, I co-founded Gazelle Partners, a corporate wellbeing business focused on sustainable behaviour change. We combined lifestyle medicine with a deep understanding of how the mind works, supporting thousands of people through one-to-one coaching and digital programmes with clients like Google, Accenture, Shell, Rio Tinto, British Land and Red Bull.
Having now supported thousands of people, and seen just how life-changing it is to have a deeper awareness of our state of mind, I have zoomed in on this in my work.
And beyond that, I’ve become increasingly interested in deepening our understanding of who we are at our core — what that really means, and what becomes possible when we spend more time there.
I work with individuals who want to experience life differently — whether they’re students, CEOs, or somewhere in between. Some come to me because they are feeling stuck or are struggling, others are doing fine but sense there’s more ease, confidence, or clarity to be had. Alongside this private practice, I create tailor made programmes for organisations who recognise the value of having their employees spend more time working from a clear calm state of mind.
And then there is my love of nutrition and nutrigenomics which I continue to find fascinating and bring into support my clients as and when required.
It is an absolute privilege to walk alongside my clients, however they have come to me, and to witness first-hand the life-changing insights they have on our journey together.
I’ve sought to create the kind of support I once needed — and now get to share that with others.
Anna x
