Helena Pearson

When Helena Pearson experienced burnout after three years of juggling clinical pharmacy with her coaching and wellbeing business, it gave her space to consider what she wanted. Working with coaching, reiki and meditation clients boosted her energy; working as a pharmacist drained it. Stepping away from pharmacy was a brave and, at the time, frightening decision, but she knew where she wanted to put her focus.

Helena already had extensive training behind her, including an ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Business Mentoring, NLP, hypnotherapy, reiki and meditation. Each had been valuable, yet she felt she was working with separate tools and techniques rather than a cohesive approach. After meeting Angela at the National Coaching Awards in 2024, where Helena was a Wellbeing Coach of the Year finalist, she explored the Paseda360 methodology and joined the Advanced Practitioner programme.

The training brought together much of what she already knew and filled the gaps she had been feeling in her practice. With her science background, the foundations behind the methodology mattered to her, while the freedom to respond to what clients needed felt familiar. As Helena describes it, finding a programme that challenged the status quo of coaching “felt like coming home”.

Since then, she has redesigned her business around a more defined coaching approach and is continuing her development through the Master Practitioner programme. Alongside that professional growth, her self-value and self-trust have increased, and she has rediscovered what she calls her “inner Tigger”: the energetic, bouncy version of herself who loves life. She describes her clients as feeling more supported, seen, heard and understood, and sees the difference in her relationships too. For Helena, the experience comes down to three things: “Pattern-breaking. Life-changing. Belonging.”