The Soulful Coach

Lesley Kerrigan | Root-cause emotional coaching for brilliant, high-achieving women ready to understand overwhelm and live from steadiness, not survival. Wirral & Online.

About Me

Hi, I'm Lesley

A trauma-informed coach supporting high-performing women to lead from regulation, not reactivity.

I’m Lesley — a trauma-informed coach based in the Wirral, supporting high-performing women across Merseyside, Cheshire and beyond.


I didn’t come into this work from burnout.


I came from clarity — and a quiet decision to stop living on empty.


For years, I was the over-functioner. The one who anticipated needs before they were spoken. Helpful, capable, thoughtful — and quietly eroding on the inside. My nervous system lived in high alert while I held everything together with a calm face.


It was unsustainable.


Through coaching, somatic work and deep reflection, I began returning to myself — not reinventing, but remembering. That remembering became the foundation of The Soulful Coach: a space for women who don’t want surface-level fixes, but deep, steady, practical repair.


Now I work with brilliant, high-achieving women who are exhausted from their own competence — helping them soften, rebuild safety within themselves, and lead their lives frYou stop bracing for impact.


You stop holding your breath.


You stop breaking over small things.


You stop parenting yourself with pressure.

You feel steady in your body.


Clear in your decisions.


Softer in your home.


More yourself in your life.

Your ambition remains — but the compulsion leaves.


Your relationships shift — without explosions.


Your boundaries hold — without guilt.


You start mothering yourself with warmth instead of criticism.

And for the first time in your life, you feel like you can breathe in your own life.om regulation, not reactivity.


From the outside, their lives look impressive; inside, something has been straining for a long time.

On the outside, they’re high-performing, capable, admired.

Inside, there is a quiet ache — a sense that they’re doing everything “right” and still carrying far more than anyone realises.

If you’re reading this, you may be one of them.

You keep the peace.

You hold the family.

You carry the emotional weight others drop.


You do the late-night thinking, the early-morning coping, the invisible labour no one else notices.

And you’ve done it so well, for so long, that everyone just assumes you’re fine.

But you’re tired.


Not “I need a holiday” tired — but the kind of tired that comes from a lifetime of being the strong one.

I understand that woman.

I’ve sat with her.

I’ve been her.

And I’ve spent years helping women like her find a steadier, softer, safer way to live.

Why Women Like You Come to Me

Because success hasn’t brought the relief you hoped it would.


Because inside the high-functioning exterior, something small can still crack you open.


Because your body is whispering what your mind refuses to acknowledge:

You cannot keep living from survival mode.


And you deserve more than a life built on coping.

This work is where we honour that truth — not with pressure or performance, but with repair.

Why I Do This Work

For years, I watched brilliant women do everything:

the work, the care, the holding, the explaining, the fixing, the absorbing.


I watched them break in places no one could see.

I watched them call themselves weak when they were carrying emotional landscapes that would flatten most people.

I watched them do therapy, then mindset work, then more therapy — and still feel stuck.


Not because they didn’t understand their past.

But because no one had ever shown them how to feel safe in the present.

My gift — and the foundation of my work — is deep listening.

Seeing what sits beneath the surface.

Naming the patterns that have run your life without your consent.

And helping you rebuild the internal mother, the inner steadiness, the grounded self-worth you were never given.


I don’t offer fixes.

I offer repair.

The kind that changes you from the inside out.


My Approach: 'The Unfolding'

'The Unfolding' is the coaching method I designed for women who were never mothered in a way that made safety, softness or rest feel normal.

It weaves together three strands:

Nervous-system support

Inner mother work

Behavioural repatterning


Because you need all three.

Regulation calms your system.

Inner mother work softens the voice inside you.

Behaviour change anchors it in real life.


I don’t teach you how to be less of yourself.


I help you keep your brilliance — without the burnout.


What I Believe About Women Like You


I believe your strength was shaped by circumstances, not personality.

I believe your exhaustion is evidence of your capacity, not your failure.

I believe your rage is honest, your sadness makes sense, and your high standards were built to protect you.

I believe you have deserved support for a very long time.

And I believe it is not too late for you to have a life that feels gentle, joyful and yours.


What Becomes Possible Through This Work

You stop bracing for impact.

You stop holding your breath.

You stop breaking over small things.

You stop parenting yourself with pressure.

You feel steady in your body.

Clear in your decisions.

Softer in your home.

More yourself in your life.

Your ambition remains — but the compulsion leaves.

Your relationships shift — without explosions.

Your boundaries hold — without guilt.

You start mothering yourself with warmth instead of criticism.

And for the first time in your life, you feel like you can breathe in your own life.

If You Feel Something Opening, Even Slightly — Trust That.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know exactly what you need yet.

It doesn’t matter if everything feels tangled.

It doesn’t matter if part of you thinks you should cope on your own.

You’ve held everything together for years.

Let this be the place you no longer have to.

Explore 'The Unfolding'

Book a 90-minute clarity session

Or simply reach out — we begin exactly where you are.

I hold an internationally recognised, professional life coaching qualification (ACCP) - Advanced Certificate in Coaching Practice - accredited by the Association for Coaching.

I am a certified Mindfulness Practitioner and Therapist.

Mindful Talent Accredited Coach training
Accredited Certificate in Coach Training logo

Would you like to loosen the grip of the complex family dynamics on your life, and finally feel free from the guilt, pressure, and self‑abandonment it trained you into?

There’s another way forward — and it starts here.

Get in touch

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how I work, to arrange a free 15 min chat or initial assessment appointment.

All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.


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