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People facing mental & emotional challenges
I work one-to-one with adults experiencing stress, anxiety, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, low confidence, limiting beliefs and personal pressures that are affecting how they feel and function.
About Steven Rooney
The person employers trust with their people should never feel anonymous.
I’m Steven Rooney, founder of The Mind Coaching Academy. I work directly with people to help them change the thought patterns, emotional responses, beliefs and behaviours that can affect confidence, wellbeing, relationships and performance.
Practitioner-led supportDirect • accountable • personal
NLP Master TherapistLife CoachEFT-informed workNLPEA & IRNCH member
Why I do this work
I help people change what is getting in the way of how they want to live, work and perform.
People do not usually arrive with one neat problem. Stress can affect confidence. Overthinking can affect decisions. A limiting belief can affect communication. A difficult experience can change how somebody responds under pressure.
My work is about understanding what is actually happening for that person, identifying the pattern that is keeping the difficulty in place and helping them create a more useful response they can use outside the session.
That same principle sits behind the workplace service: support the individual in a practical, confidential way while giving the employer a clear and accountable provision.
You deal directly with me
No anonymous practitioner network.
I am the person employers speak to, the practitioner delivering the work and the person responsible for maintaining the agreed professional boundaries around confidentiality, safeguarding, scope and service delivery.
Who I work with
My one-to-one work extends beyond workplace wellbeing.
Working across different settings has strengthened my understanding of how confidence, beliefs, emotional responses and mental performance can influence what somebody is able to do when it matters.
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Employees & professionals
I support people where personal or workplace pressures are affecting focus, confidence, communication, relationships, decision-making or their ability to perform effectively at work.
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Sportspeople & mental performance
I also work one-to-one with sportspeople to strengthen mental performance, confidence, self-belief, focus and their ability to perform under pressure. The aim is to reduce the mental barriers that can interfere with executing what they are physically capable of doing.
The work is individual, practical and focused on the areas the person can influence — not on diagnosing or treating medical conditions.
The working approach
Understand. Map. Change. Apply.
01Understand
What is happening, how it is affecting the employee and what they want to change.
02Map the pattern
Situations, thoughts, emotional responses and behaviours that may be maintaining the difficulty.
03Change the response
Use appropriate coaching and change-work techniques to create more useful ways of responding.
04Apply it
Translate the work into everyday situations, decisions and behaviour outside the session.
Workplace support grew from real conversations
Independent support matters when people need somewhere they can speak openly.
My workplace wellbeing work developed from seeing how mental and emotional pressures affect people before those difficulties necessarily become a formal absence or clinical issue. Conversations with people working in demanding environments, including NHS staff, reinforced the potential value of an independent route sitting outside management and HR.
VERIFIED FEEDBACK
“This is what staff need.”
Caroline Roberts, Whiston Hospital
Quoted with permission in relation to the value of independent staff support.
Professional credibility
Qualifications matter. So do judgement, boundaries and knowing when something is outside your scope.
NLP Master Therapist & Life CoachAdvanced training in NLP-based change work and coaching approaches.
EFT-informed techniquesAdditional tools that may be used where appropriate within a broader support plan.
Professional membershipsMember of NLPEA and IRNCH.
Clear non-clinical scopeI do not diagnose medical or mental-health conditions and will signpost when another professional route is more appropriate.
A direct conversation
If you are considering support for your workforce, speak to the person who would deliver it.
Tell me what you are seeing in your workforce and what you want to improve. I can explain where I may be able to help and where another route would be more appropriate.