Lived Experience Practitioner
What Is a Lived Experience Practitioner?
Most coaching is built on learning.
My work is built on living it.
As a lived experience practitioner, I support people rebuilding their lives after health challenges, burnout or major life disruption, not from theory, but from direct experience.
I don’t work from the outside looking in.
I work from inside the reality of long-term challenge, identity change and adaptation, because I live it every day
Why Lived Experience Matters?
When someone has lived through chronic illness, burnout, or life disruption, traditional advice often misses the point.
Generic support assumes:
→ Energy will return if you push hard enough
→ You can simply “get back to normal”
→ The old version of you is still the goal
But when life has fundamentally changed, those assumptions stop working.
Lived experience work starts somewhere different.
It starts with the truth of where you are now.
Chris’s Lived Experience
I live with Multiple Sclerosis a chronic, incurable health condition.
That reality reshaped how I see identity, resilience, belief, and recovery.
I know what it feels like when:
• Your body doesn’t cooperate
• Your plans change without warning
• Your identity no longer fits
• Advice from others misses the point
This experience isn’t something I occasionally reference in my work.
It is the foundation of it.
Who This Work Is For
This support will be right for you if:
• Life hasn’t returned to “normal” and you know it never will
• You’re functioning on the surface but struggling underneath
• Your confidence or identity has taken a hit
• You’re tired of surface-level advice or motivational slogans
• You want honest conversations about rebuilding your life
What We Work On
- This work goes deeper than typical mindset coaching. We focus on:
Identity shifts after illness, burnout, or disruption
Core beliefs that keep you feeling stuck
Rebuilding direction after life changes
Resolving internal conflict between who you were and who you are now
Creating meaning that fits your current reality
Explore your inner self, the new you!
How We Work Together
Sessions are offered on a one-to-one basis and are designed to be structured, honest, and grounded in real-life experience.
Rather than following generic coaching frameworks, our conversations focus on your personal circumstances, challenges, and the changes you’re navigating.
The work is thoughtful and supportive, but also gently challenging where needed, helping you explore beliefs, identity shifts, and the direction you want to move in next.
Sessions can take place online or in person in Essex, depending on what feels most comfortable and practical for you.
Everything is approached at a pace that respects where you are right now, creating space for honest conversation and meaningful progress without pressure.
Take your first step, book your slot…
The next step is simply a conversation.
No pressure.
No expectation.
Just honesty about where you are and whether this work is right for you.
“Chris encouraged me to set targets and was always there when I struggled, and questioned, the sheer necessity of moving out of the light and forward. He became a special trusted confidante who for a short time walked with me into the future.”
Meg
“Chris is and always has been an inspirational man. The work he’s doing now is so focused, so carer and client orientated and he, quite simply, just gets it.”
Helen
Chris is great fun to be with and his caring, enthusiastic approach to those seeking his help is fundamental to his work. It takes courage to pull yourself up from a life limiting condition but Chris manages this every day and he inspires and encourages others to do the same.
Phyl, therapist to therapist
“Chris walks the talk. He is an inspirational role model, a strong coach and a lovely man.”
Jenny
“After years of living with mental health I have come to understand how to live a better life with a new outlook with the tools Chris has given me.”
Miss E. Smith
“Chris is an inspirational man, guiding me through my educational journey and always listening and giving me good advice.”
Emma
“His candour, care and demeanour provides the safest of spaces for his clients to grow and connect with their truest selves. I have felt supported and cared throughout our work together and I cannot thank you enough!”
Holly
“It’s been a year now since you helped me turn my life around haven’t looked back since. I am still not taking cannabis and it’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”
Gary
“Each week I feel more and more empowered and less anxious and low which has also contributed to my overall health improving drastically.”
