Tessa — Executive Coach & Life Coach in Banbury, Oxfordshire

• Masters in Coaching and Mentoring, Oxford Brookes University (2019)
• BSc Psychology, Southampton University · ILM Level 5 in Coaching · NLP Master Practitioner · Mindfulness Diploma
• Life coaching · Executive coaching · Mentoring · Coach supervision
• NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) — featured approach
• 20+ years corporate experience in global technology and mobile brands
• Face-to-face in Banbury, Oxfordshire · Online and telephone UK-wide
• Private individuals (18+) · Corporate clients · Coaches (supervision)
• £65 per session
• Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure

Executive Coach & Life Coach in Banbury — About Tessa

Significant change — whether chosen or imposed — brings with it a particular kind of complexity. There are practical decisions to make, emotional responses to navigate, and often a need to think differently about what matters and what is possible. Tessa’s coaching creates a structured, attentive space in which that process can happen with greater clarity and purpose.

Tessa is a Master Practitioner Coach and Mentor based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, offering face-to-face sessions locally and online and telephone coaching across the UK. She holds a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University (2019), a BSc in Psychology from Southampton University, an ILM Level 5 in Coaching, and is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner. She has also completed a Mindfulness Diploma, which informs her approach to stress, focus, and wellbeing within her coaching work. Her coaching is grounded in evidence-based practice and shaped by over 20 years of direct experience working in fast-paced corporate environments — including global technology and mobile brands — at senior levels.

Tessa works with private individuals navigating significant life transitions, and with corporate clients and organisations seeking executive coaching, leadership development, and mentoring. She also provides supervision for practising coaches. Executive coach Banbury and online Oxfordshire. Life coach Banbury and online UK.

Background & Experience

Before building her coaching practice, Tessa spent over 20 years working in fast-paced environments with leading global technology and mobile brands. She progressed through the corporate ladder from data input clerk to qualifying as an accountant before becoming an account director — navigating the full range of organisational pressures, leadership challenges, and professional transitions that her corporate coaching clients are now working through themselves. That experience is not a biographical footnote. It is the foundation of her understanding of what corporate life actually demands.

Her academic credentials are unusually strong for a coach. Her Masters in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes brings theoretical depth and research literacy to her practice. Her BSc in Psychology gives her a grounding in how people think, behave, and change that most coaches working from shorter qualifications do not have. Her NLP Master Practitioner qualification gives her a powerful set of tools for working with the patterns of thinking, language, and behaviour that often underlie the challenges her clients are navigating. Her ILM Level 5 provides a formal framework for coaching and mentoring at leadership level.

Tessa maintains regular professional development and supervision appropriate to her level of practice.

NLP — Neuro-Linguistic Programming

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a significant and distinctive element of Tessa’s coaching practice. As a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, she draws on NLP’s frameworks for understanding and working with the patterns of thought, language, and behaviour that shape how people experience their situations and what feels possible within them.

NLP offers practical tools for reframing limiting beliefs, developing more resourceful mental states, improving communication, and creating shifts in the way you relate to challenges or decisions. Tessa uses NLP alongside her psychological training and coaching framework to help clients work with the patterns that may be keeping them stuck — particularly in transitions where old ways of thinking no longer serve the new direction. NLP coach Banbury and online Oxfordshire. NLP Master Practitioner coaching UK. Neuro-linguistic programming coach Banbury. NLP coaching for life transitions online UK.

Life Coaching — Transitions and Change

Tessa works regularly with private clients who are considering or navigating significant transitions — whether by choice or by circumstance. The approach she takes is shaped by the nature of the transition: self-directed changes involve creative exploration, option assessment, and testing preferred routes; externally imposed changes often require a different kind of initial work — acknowledging impact, developing perspective, and building a considered pathway forward.

The transitions Tessa works with most frequently include career change and career direction, promotion (particularly first-time directors and managers), redundancy and retirement, starting or selling a business, relationship transitions including separation and bereavement, decisions about becoming a parent or a carer, and parental care and loss. Life coach Banbury and Oxfordshire. Career change coaching Banbury online. Career coaching Oxfordshire. Redundancy coaching online UK. Life transition coach Banbury. Retirement coaching online UK.

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

Tessa’s executive coaching draws on her 20+ years of direct corporate experience alongside her Masters-level coaching training — giving it a grounding in organisational reality that most coaches cannot offer. She works with senior leaders, newly appointed directors and managers, and those navigating significant professional change within an organisational context.

Her corporate coaching offer covers executive coaching for individual leaders, leadership development at team and organisational level, mentoring for senior professionals, and support through specific workplace transitions — promotion, demotion, redundancy, relocation, and return from leave. She also advises organisations on coaching as a tool for cultural development, the design and adaptation of employee support programmes, and research into the effectiveness of existing mentoring and coaching arrangements. Executive coach Banbury and online UK. Leadership coaching Oxfordshire. Executive coaching online UK. Corporate coaching Banbury. Leadership development coach Banbury and online.

Mentoring

Alongside her coaching practice, Tessa offers mentoring to individuals and within organisational settings — drawing on her direct experience of corporate progression, leadership, and business development to provide practical guidance and perspective alongside the reflective space that coaching creates. Mentor Banbury and online Oxfordshire. Business mentor online UK. Career mentor Banbury and Oxfordshire.

Coach Supervision

Tessa provides supervision for practising coaches — drawing on her Masters in Coaching and Mentoring, her NLP Master Practitioner qualification, and her extensive practical experience to offer a supervisory space that is both reflective and practically grounded. Coach supervision is available online and by telephone to coaches across the UK. Coach supervision online UK. Coaching supervision Oxfordshire. Supervisor for coaches online UK. NLP coach supervision online.

Sessions with Tessa

Tessa is based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and offers face-to-face coaching locally and online and telephone coaching to individuals and organisations across the UK. She works with private individuals (18+), corporate clients, and practising coaches seeking supervision.

Sessions are tailored to the individual — the approach, tools, and pacing are shaped by what you are working on and what is most useful at each stage. Tessa regularly checks in throughout the work to ensure sessions are aligned with your goals and expectations.

Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — Tessa will explain these clearly before any work begins.

Location — Banbury, Oxfordshire

Tessa offers face-to-face coaching in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and online and telephone coaching to individuals and organisations across the UK. Banbury sits at the heart of ‘Banburyshire’ — the rural crossroads of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire — within easy reach of Oxford, Royal Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Bicester. Online coaching is available to anyone across the UK.

Journey times show how long it takes to reach Banbury by the fastest available transport. Online and telephone coaching is available to anyone across the UK.

Tessa’s Banbury practice draws clients from across Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire — and from anywhere across the UK for online executive coaching, life coaching, NLP coaching, and coach supervision.

Fees

• All sessions: £65 per session

Life coaching, executive coaching, mentoring, and coach supervision with Tessa through Hope Therapy are all available at £65 per session — significantly more accessible than many comparable coaching practices in Oxfordshire and the surrounding area.

Book a Free Consultation

Whether you are a private individual navigating a significant transition, a leader or organisation looking for executive coaching or mentoring, or a practising coach seeking supervision — a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure.

Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 9am – 9pm if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.

More Info

Areas Tessa Works With

• Becoming a parent
• Bereavement
• Career change
• Demotion
• First-time director
• First-time manager
• Leadership development
• Life transitions
• Midlife career change
• New business
• Parental care
• Promotion
• Redundancy
• Relationship transitions
• Relocation
• Retirement
• Return from leave
• Selling a business
• Separation
• Starting a business
• Work transitions
• Workplace change

Coaching & Specialist Approaches

• Business mentoring
• Career coaching
• Career mentoring
• Coach supervision
• Corporate coaching
• Executive coaching
• Leadership coaching
• Life coaching
• Mentoring
• Mindfulness-informed coaching
• NLP coaching
• Online coaching
• Telephone coaching